Tuesday afternoon, my group text with my buddies started blowing up. Usually this sort of thing is in response to sports, video game news, and/or some sort of nonsense regarding trash talk or funny memes. In other words, this text-chain rarely produces anything consequential. Yet, Tuesday was different.
I had been working on an article all afternoon and wasn't checking the news feeds regularly. I missed the news that Disney (DIS) and Sony (SNE) had arrived at a standoff regarding the future of Spider-Man's involvement in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When