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seriousfic (seriousfic) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-03 08:20:00

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char: black cat/felicia hardy, char: spider-man/peter parker, publisher: marvel comics, title: amazing spider-man

Black Cat goes from dethroning moment of suck to crowning moment of awesome in one panel
Since today I’m posting the next installment in my fanfic about what would happen if Spider-Man got back together with Black Cat due to the events of One More Day (answer: DRAMA!), I thought it would be a good time to post one of my favorite Black Cat moments. Synergy and all that.

Black Cat is a funny character, because unlike Catwoman, who gets some respect as part of the official OTP, Felicia Hardy is almost a punching bag. The character keeps getting hit by retcons, bad plot developments, and... just really awful costume changes. Then no sooner has a new writer come along and gotten her back on track then she gets derailed again, sometimes by the same writer even. So to spotlight some of Black Cat’s untapped potential, an OOC derailment and an awesomely in-character canon-fix.

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For the record, Black Cat has been stealing famous romantic artifacts like a sculpture of lovers and "the only known love letter written to Paris by Helen of Troy". Spider-Man tracks her down to her hideout, where the issue chooses to deal with all their fun subtext in an... interesting way.

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Why hello there, icky Freudian subtext. How are you? Still insulting and unentertaining?

That was Amazing Spider-Man 205. Now let's skip ahead two years to ASM 226.

…"he’d stuck one of his spider-tracers to me"…

You don’t say…

So Felicia, you managed to set up a prison break AS YOU WERE BEING ARRESTED, AND floated the idea of a hook-up with your future boyfriend. Looks like you’ve gone from AN HERO to A SUPERHERO.

As for why Felicia had clippings of Spider-Man pasted to her wall… look, do you want not-crazy Black Cat or not?

The rest of the issue is pretty fun too, with Peter and Felicia chasing each other in circles while considering the possibility of a relationship and, naturally, stealing from the "Maggia" before deciding to give it a go.

Somewhere, a Bruce/Selina shipper is grinding his teeth in frustration.

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	jlroberson 2009-03-03 09:13 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for posting this(and post more if you have it please). I'm working on a sample using her and I can use all the pre-90s(i.e. anatomically possible) reference I can get. (Reply to this)

	luckofjin 2009-03-03 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, I have never seen her when her neckline doesn't go down to her navel. She looks a lot better here! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rabican 2009-03-07 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	At least 50% of the reason I think Black Cat needs a costume redesign so that artists will stop playing the damn zipper game with her outfit. The fur also bothers me. I mean, okay, eventually you get used to the Black Cat wearing white, ah-ha-ha, but isn't it a bad idea for a cat burglar to wear so much potential trace evidence? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-03-07 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	The fur also bothers me. I mean, okay, eventually you get used to the Black Cat wearing white, ah-ha-ha, but isn't it a bad idea for a cat burglar to wear so much potential trace evidence? If she doesn't wear it, Catwoman sues for copyright infringement :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rabican 2009-03-08 12:26 am UTC (link)
	Actually, Black Cat started wearing the (sorry) catsuit first! I'm fairly certain that Catwoman still had the skirt and boots on at that point. I do like your fur idea, though. Especially if she changes it regularly, or if it's different on every cuff. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-03-08 12:49 am UTC (link)
	I do like your fur idea, though. Especially if she changes it regularly, or if it's different on every cuff. There's a good seventies-era Peter/Felicia story in there. Spidey "tracks" Felicia all the way to Wakanda to give her flowers, while meanwhile Felicia is X-TREME waiting by the phone. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seriousfic 2009-03-07 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	She could also have the fur imported so that anyone trying to trace it gets sent on a wild goose chase to Latveria... by way of Atlantis. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tsuki_the_geek 2009-03-03 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	Huh, that fix WAS pretty awesome. Bravo (Reply to this)

	Black Cat bzero 2009-03-03 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	This is the kind of retcon fix that I like to see... the past is acknowledged, but a less-crazy (literally, in this case) spin is put on past events. B) (Reply to this)

	chipsnopotatoes 2009-03-03 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	"Somewhere, a Bruce/Selina shipper is grinding his teeth in frustration." and that would be me :) I like black cat/spidey though (Reply to this)

	pojypojy 2009-03-03 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Aww, this story was in the first superhero book I ever bought, when I was eight. Good memories :-) (Reply to this)

	eritreus 2009-03-03 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	That's a . . . rather interesting place to put that tracking device . . . possible foreshadowing? (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2009-03-03 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Somewhere, a Bruce/Selina shipper is grinding his teeth in frustration. Her teeth! (Reply to this)

	ashtoreth 2009-03-04 12:10 am UTC (link)
	Is it possible to use lj-type cuts to lessen the pain on my friends page? (Reply to this)