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queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 00:15:00

Marvel Divas #4

Aww... Fisk isn't so bad after all.

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bluefall
2009-10-30 09:32 am UTC (link)

I don't know, minus the "sudsy fun," it pretty much ended up being exactly what A-S said it would be - an examination of four women trying to make it in a man's world. Which... was very well-rendered, sure, and rang relatively true. But it doesn't make sense for the characters involved (particularly the men, Drumm and Hellstrom were way past the point of parody), and even if it did, that's an odd level of helplessness and reactive, initiativeless impotence to assign to a bunch of superheroes.

Like, what do they do? They can't help their friend, so they go to Reed. Felicia's got no money, so she goes to Fisk. Hellstrom shows up of his own accord and they can only respond to him (and make a very poor deal with him, one which they get nothing out of that they didn't have before he showed up and which he benefits from significantly) - and they can only respond to him by going to Drumm for mystic mojo, and aren't able to actually hurt him at all. They spend the whole mini just reacting, and trying to catch up, and never quite doing so, and their only useful resource for anything is the men they know. It's just lame. I don't really get the point of a superhero who can't actually accomplish anything, you know?

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	liliaeth 2009-10-30 09:58 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, but that's pretty much every single Marvel hero right now. With the exception of the Dark Avengers and other such killtastic characters, current Marvel doesn't seem to think that heroes in general can get much of anything done. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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