Captain Marvel & Proust

That Batman Does Dostoevsky post has been popping up in blog posts for months, but when i was trawling through the past week's comics, i caught something a lot more subtle (for comics anyway,) but just as peculiarly literary. I was reading the new Captain Marvel comic to find a scene in which a SHIELD agent meets with Iron Man telepathically. Yep, it's a comic. They meet inside of a memory of the agent, and in it, she's the size of a child, in the home of her French grandmother. She and Iron Man sit around chatting, eating cookies, and remarking on how good they are, with the agent adding something about they are just the way that she remembers them.

No, it's not much, but it seems an obvious and gratuitous Proust reference and it's funny to see it in a mainstream underwear pervert comic. Since the whole comic's theme dwells on memory, i'm wondering if it's about more than the cookie.

Never read Proust myself. Never seemed like my cup of tea, even though Pamuk and Vila-Matas adore him.