More Skrulls in literature:

In “Of Mice and Men,” the violent Lennie is described as “shapeless of face.”

How about Jake Blount, the itinerant social reformer with a penchant for violence, in “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”? Remember how he’s described: “There were many things about the fellow that seemed contrary. His head was very large and well-shaped, but his neck was soft and slender a boy’s. The mustache looked false, as if it had been stuck on for a costume party and would fall off if he talked too fast. It made him seem almost middle-aged, although his face with its high, smooth forehead and wide-open eyes was young…. There was something very funny about the man, yet at the same time another feeling would not let you laugh.” No doubt about this one!

Is that the sequel to Micronauts?

Macd. Oh Hell-Kite! In the Tyrant’s graspe, the Deuill’s Sword.

Macb. Listen not to foule Macduff, for ‘tis but my Analyzer.

I must admit, the Analyzer is easily the most literary-theoretic weapon in the Marvel Universe.

Finally, Josh mentions Hermenaut but neglects to link to it. Consider his error rectified.

“It`s good to see shakespeare being used in the modern game… I could have sworn that man said ‘puck’”.

Also think of Buck Mulligan’s “shaking gurgling face,” in “Ulysses,” for example; or the way that Joyce has Mulligan “put on a blithe broadly smiling face.” (Why phrase it that way?) And what, pray tell, does Fitzgerald imply when he writes, in “Gatsby,” that “Daisy took her face in her hands, as if feeling its lovely shape…”?