Six Degrees of Fictionality: The Amazing Spider-Man/Guardians of the Galaxy---->The Testaments

A. The Amazing Spider-Man/Guardians of the Galaxy

Summary: Brian Michael Bendis, Nick Spencer, Mike O'Sullivan, and
Gerry Duggan wrote this comic book. Rod Reis, Marcus To, Aaron Kuder, Mike Hawthorne, Frazer Irving, Roland Boschi, Valerio Schiti, Greg Smallwood, and Ryan Ottley illustrated the story. Unfortunately, the two stories were unconnected and for the purpose of this blog- I'm only going to discuss the Guardians of the Galaxy story. Now, it wasn't as much a story as it was filler. Most of the exposition covered, more than likely, events that happened off panel which lead up to the "Infinity Watch" storyline.
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4588630/free-comic-book-day-2018-amazing-spider-man-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/infinity-watch-guardians-galaxy-spider-man-fcbd-comic/

Connections: One of the reasons I went with the Guardians of the Galaxy half of the comic book was because of the mentions of the nega-bands. The Supremor of the Kree created these artifacts to use the wielders psychic powers as well as harnessing the forces of the Negative Zone. More information about them can be found here- if you want to know. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Nega-Bands

The Supremor of the Kree created these artifacts to use the wielders psychic powers as well as harnessing the forces of the Negative Zone. What was the negative zone?

Apparently, it's another universe with characteristics distinguishing if from ours. First, it's composed of anti-matter so anyone that jumps universe had to switch polarity or die. Second, it's a mature universe that was contracting. Third, time passes faster. And lastly, much of the Negative Zone was uninhabited. Now, I'll stop beating around the bush- the reason I bring this up because I believe the Negative Zone and Negaverse from Darkwing Duck were the same. I do have reasons why I believe this to be true. First according to the wiki about the Negaverse, it had "a destructive atmosphere that is almost impossible to counter." Though, by that it could mean that it's only inhabited by really bad people, but that may not be the only meaning. It didn't get into the science, but it did make the point of telling us that everything the Negaverse was the reverse or anti- of the regular universe.
https://the-disney-afternoon.fandom.com/wiki/Negaduck
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Negaverse
https://darkwingduck.fandom.com/wiki/Negaverse

1. Darkwing Duck
Summary: This cartoon was created by Tad Stones and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Jim Cummings, Christine Cavanaugh , and Terry McGovern voiced the characters Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck, Gosalyn Mallard, and Launchpad McQuack. This story took place in alternate universe where animals lived as humans. Drake Mallard was a regular, unassuming duck who lived a regular, unassuming suburban life. The only difference was that on his downtime, Drake Mallard worked as Darkwing Duck, a masked crime-fighter. Assisting him in his fight were Gosalyn and Launchpad, his adopted daughter and his friend.
Connections: When Drake Mallard was alerted to a crime, he went to his secret lair. Now, in order to get into his secret lair he had to set in a chair and touch a statue.

The Great Mouse Detective. The statue he touched was in the image of Basil the great mouse detective. A movie of, at least, one of Basil's escapades exist in a movie called

2. The Great Mouse Detective

Summary: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, and John Musker directed this movie. It was released by Disney Pictures. The year was 1897 and a young mouse named Olivia wandered around London searching for Basil, the great mouse detective, to help find her father. Olivia was lost until she met Dr. David Q Dawson who then escorted her to Basil. After hearing Olivia's story, Basil agreed to help her. Basil, David, and Olivia head off battling villains to rescue Olivia's father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Mouse_Detective

Connections: Basil was a mouse detective who lived in London in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was smart and had a knack for the sciences. He also picked up his habits from his neighbor. The mouse dressed the same way as his famous neighbor as well as being able to play a violin. Who was his famous neighbor? Sherlock Holmes of course!

Sherlock Holmes was a human detective who had above excellent observation skills. He also had a very broad base of knowledge in the sciences from chemistry to mindfulness.
https://www.nature.com/articles/549332a Holmes was also a master of disguise and a decent fighter. The master detective had appeared in many different types of media from books to poems. Apparently, the case that Basil was working on was either concurrent to or overlapping with a case of Sherlock's called The Sign of Four.

3. Sign of Four

Summary: This story was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Lippincot's Monthly Magazine. In 1888, a young lady Mary Morstan went to 221B street to meet with Sherlock Holmes and his assistant John Watson. Her father disappeared ten years earlier and then 6 years ago she started receiving a pearl a year. And with the last pearl she also received a letter asking for a meet. Mary asked Sherlock to help her with this meeting. Sherlock, Mary, and John met with Thaddeus Sholto, a late friend of Mary's father and from there they begin to uncover a plot dating back to the Indian Revolt of 1857.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Four

Connections: As I said above, Mary Morstan was a client of Sherlock Holmes.

She was described as a small dainty blonde. Her mother died at a young age and her father sent her to England to be educated. With her father disappearing in 1878 and had no other family, she raised herself with the help of her teachers. In the future, she married John Watson after falling in love with him during the Sign of Four adventure. Still this isn't the only place that Mary Morstan popped in other media. One of these was a pastiche called The Adventure of Dedstone Mill.

4. The Adventure of Dedstone Mill
Summary: This story was written by Denis O Smith and was found in the anthology called The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock invited himself to dinner at John and Mary Watsons' home in order to invite them to go with on a trip. A little girl named Harriet Borrow wrote to Holmes asking for help as she was in fear of danger to her and her brother's life. The two siblings were left in the care of their uncle but there were strange things afoot.

https://books.google.com/books?id=GbLABAAAQBAJ&dq=the+adventure+of+%22dedstone+mill%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
http://www.internationalschooldrama.com/smith.html

Connections: In the story, there was a small mention of the vicar of Hembleby. He was a man by the name of Daniel Blanchard. As many of the Sherlock Holmes stories take place in the late 1800s to early 1900s- I would assume that this man would live during this time frame. In the early 1900s, there was an airship captain by the name of Anne Blanchard. Don't know much about her, just that she was a rum runner during prohibition.

5. Rum Row #1

Summary: This comic was written by Andrew Maxwell and Michele Bandini. It was set during the 1920s during the Prohibition Era. As such, the main character, Anne Blanchard was a rum runner. Anne captained an airship called 'The Duchess' and operated it as a speakeasy. Her job isn't easy as the NYPD had their own airships and they're coming after her.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/382592035/rum-row
https://comicspectrumcrowdsourcing.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/rum-row-by-andrew-maxwell/

Connections: Anne Blanchard flew her airship through an expanse that covered parts of New York and Canada called the Rum Row but just outside of the maritime limit of either place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_row. I found a song describing one of the boats that Rum Row and this song was called the Nellie J Banks.

6. The Nellie J. Banks
Summary: This song was written by a man named Lennie Gallant. You can find out more about him at the following website. https://lenniegallant.com/ It described a trip of the Nellie J Banks going from St Pierre to Prince Edward Island. The ship was captained by a man named Lillington who edged the boundaries of Rum Row carrying his cargo of rum.
Connections: The ship The Nellie J Banks was a two-masted schooner originally used for fishing, up until 1926. After 1926 it was bought by two men and used for rum running.

It can also be found in other media namely a book called The Testaments. Instead of running rum, it acted as an escape route for women escaping from the totalitarian/theocratic government that ruled the USA.
https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/XXIV_The_%27%27Nellie_J._Banks%27%27

B. The Testaments
Summary: This story was written by acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood. It took place 15 years after the events from The Handmaid's Tale and followed the perspectives of three women: Aunt Lydia, Agnes Jemima, and Nicole. Each woman played a part in a revolution against the Gilead government as it broke down. Lydia was a mole, Nicole was a spy, and Agnes was more the every person. Throughout the story, she was the one who saw the lies break down to reveal the truth.