February 2012
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vorpalplatypus asked: Hi! I read your post on Huntress. While your complaint about their autonomy is valid, relevant and something I agree with, most victims in comic books, provided they weren't supervillains or superheroes, have always been gimmicks as far as I can tell. I think you can support your argument further, if you provided a concrete example of how you could rewrite it so it was less problematic. Given...
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Problematic Muslim Stereotypes in Otherwise...
If there is one thing that I like in my comics, it is archers with purple costumes shooting people with their arrows and/or quarrels. So, by rights, this should have been a good week for me—the Huntress miniseries’ penultimate issue came out, along with Hawkeye officially becoming the leader of the Secret Avengers. And, yes, that did in fact make it a good week. However, these two comics also had...
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the week in review: 1/29-2/4
⇀Avengers Academy - Issue #25 | Christos Gage & Tom Grummett
Rema: This issue was definitely action-packed! Not only did we get the SURPRISE TWIST AT THE END, plus the battling all over it, but also the timeline problems with Reptil and his future. I feel like they have played it very well - pitting the questions of good and evil against this story of Finesse and their daughter....
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January 2012
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Fear Itself: The Fearless - Issue #6 | Cullen Bunn, Matt Fraction, Chris Yost & Paul Pelletier
Usually, seeing three of my favorite characters in the same panel in a series pretty unrelated to them would be a cause for celebration—hey, characters I like interacting and getting cameos, what a great thing! Unfortunately, I can’t really celebrate over this panel. It’s not that I don’t like...
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