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Before she was kicking ass as Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers went by Ms. Marvel nearly from her inception until the early 2010s. Part of her time as Ms. Marvel revealed her donning a super revealing black spandex suit with a large yellow lightning bolt and a red sash. Now, thanks to a viral tweet containing a clipping from the 70s, the skimpy outfit was something demanded by Marvel despite objections from the creative team at the time.

Long-time Marvel writer Kurt Busiek brought the topic of the black suit up on Twitter, saying the classic version was one of his favorites until recent artists began taking advantage of the skimpiness of it. Artist Eric Zawadzki was quick to respond to Busiek with an apparent news clipping of writer ChrisArkansas' attempt to carry out its first execution in nearly 12 years wasn't thwarted by the type of liberal activist judge Republicans regularly bemoan here, but instead by a state Supreme Court that's been the focus of expensive campaigns by conservative groups to reshape the judiciary.

The court voted Wednesday to halt the execution of an inmate facing lethal injection Thursday night, two days after justices stayed the executions of two other inmates. The series of 4-3 decisions blocking the start of what had been an unprecedented plan to execute eight men in 11 days were only the latest in recent years preventing this deeply Republican state from resuming capital punishment.

The possibility that justices could continue sparing the lives of the remaining killers scheduled to die this month has