Snark Industries makes its first jump into live-action with the Season 7 premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a time-travel episode that lands in 1931 as the team chases the Chronicoms into the past. The full plot gets walked through, from the reactivated Coulson LMD to the face-stealing Chronicoms to the central twist that the real target was never FDR at all, but a Malick whose actions lead to the birth of Hydra, and by extension, S.H.I.E.L.D. itself. Comic roots are traced through Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors run and its focus on the Malick family, with the episode title nodding to the 2002 Captain America: The New Deal limited series and the Chronicoms reaching all the way back to a 1966 issue of Thor. Both hosts come in admittedly behind on the show, but both walk away pleasantly surprised, calling it one of the stronger episodes they c ...