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Tweak says, "I say!"

queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-05 07:47:00

Entry tags:

char: black cat/felicia hardy, char: firestar/angelica jones, char: hellcat/patsy walker, char: photon/monica rambeau, creator: roberto aguirre-sacasa, creator: tonci zonjic, publisher: marvel comics, title: marvel divas

Marvel Divas #1

Brother Voodoo is creepy.

And later...

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	tahngarth 2009-07-05 11:55 am UTC (link)
	What, again? (Reply to this)

statham1986
2009-07-05 12:15 pm UTC (link)

I really, really, really love the art for this book. There's a nice, down to earth feel about it that's setting it apart from other books. Some of it's almost as nice as Darwyn Cooke or Marcos Martin.

But putting it around this plot and this dialogue with the characters warped as badly as they have been is awful. It is basically Sex and the City with the four women forced into the four lead roles like round pegs in square holes. Patsy is the writer, Felicia's the skanky one, Monica's the boistrous one and Angelica's the quiet one, and it just really stinks, to me. The way they 'meet up' and become this group was fairly interesting, but I like very little else about the story.

And wasn't this plotline with Firestar done already? I thought the concerns of cancer from her powers led her to get the special costume from the Avengers, or whatever?

Let's not even start on the Campbell promotional art, which was, to be blunt, completely fucking irrelevent to the story.

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icon_uk, 2009-07-05 12:43 pm UTC

	ulf_boehnke 2009-07-05 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	"He's Voo-ing you after Doo-ing you." (Reply to this) (Thread)

icon_uk, 2009-07-05 02:07 pm UTC

	stolisomancer 2009-07-05 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	I can't look at a last-page reveal like that anymore without immediately thinking of "Funky Winkerbean." Kinda kills the drama. (Reply to this)

mechanicaljewel
2009-07-05 01:09 pm UTC (link)

Monica saying "not at some man's pace" reminds me of that episode of Futurama when they put on an Ally McBeal-type show for the Omicronians, and they end it with Leela saying, "I hereby return to my single female lawyer career. No matter what any man says."

In other words, it's completely tacked on in order to make people feel like they're reading/watching some great feminist work because they're too lazy too actually make it feminist. The difference is, Futurama was satirizing the trope, and here it's played straight.

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mysteryfan, 2009-07-05 03:20 pm UTC

greenmask, 2009-07-05 06:22 pm UTC

superfan1, 2009-07-06 07:11 am UTC

	freezer818 2009-07-05 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	Umm... Why is Angelica dressed as The Little Goth That Couldn't? (Reply to this) (Thread)

icon_uk, 2009-07-05 03:14 pm UTC

bariman1987, 2009-07-05 05:16 pm UTC

	janegray 2009-07-05 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	You know, ditching somebody like that after shagging them? Not cool, not feminist, not "strong". It's fucking cold. How hard is it to just say "no, sorry, I like being single." (Reply to this) (Thread)

flidgetjerome, 2009-07-05 02:02 pm UTC

oddpuppets, 2009-07-05 04:24 pm UTC

runespoor7, 2009-07-05 02:14 pm UTC

merrickm, 2009-07-05 04:45 pm UTC

ryuutchi, 2009-07-07 04:46 am UTC

janegray, 2009-07-07 08:13 am UTC

ryuutchi, 2009-07-07 08:22 am UTC

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-07-05 02:37 pm UTC (link)
	The art is adorable. The story is...um. (Reply to this)

	kagome654 2009-07-05 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	...Is Brother Voodoo always that attractive? I'd be willing to ignore the ~~stalking~~ aggressive wooing for some of that. (Reply to this) (Thread)

toasty_fresh, 2009-07-05 03:39 pm UTC

superfan1, 2009-07-06 07:13 am UTC

	thanekos 2009-07-05 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	" ... " " ZOOOOOOMBIE CANCER " (Reply to this)

	toasty_fresh 2009-07-05 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Cancer? Now that's what I call some sudsy fun! (Reply to this)

	espanolbot 2009-07-05 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	Who is cancergirl? (Reply to this) (Thread)

sir_razorback, 2009-07-05 05:04 pm UTC

	darkknightjrk 2009-07-05 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	On one hand, it's a good idea to be original in your attempts to woo people, but...a voodoo doll? Seriously? Monica's more in the wrong for leaving like that, but that is a touch creepy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

midnightvoyager, 2009-07-05 06:02 pm UTC

ashtoreth, 2009-07-06 05:34 am UTC

silicone_soul, 2009-07-06 12:22 pm UTC

	midnightvoyager 2009-07-05 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Just when I think that I cannot dislike a comic any more... (Reply to this)

jarodrussell
2009-07-05 06:11 pm UTC (link)

For stalking to work as a romantic tool, you have to first make sure the person you're stalking is okay with it. Do they often foil your criminal plans? Do they repeatedly end up chained to your deathtraps? Do they (A) call the police when you attempt to abduct them, or do they (B) personally manage to escape from your assault? (Yes, yes, B.)

If any of these questions are answered in the wrong, then you're probably being a jerk to keep stalking them. If all of these questions are answered correctly, perhaps it's time to move onto something more serious: ask them or a date, or if you're really daring, threaten their city with a WMD. Then see how it goes from there.

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scottyquick, 2009-07-05 09:33 pm UTC

jarodrussell, 2009-07-05 09:37 pm UTC

	greenmask 2009-07-05 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	Not only does the whole thing seem forced and quite boring, the "Me? Stay? zoom" reads more like Looney Tunes than anything remotely serious/realistic. (Reply to this)

ex_menagerie993
2009-07-05 06:41 pm UTC (link)

Okay, I will state that I rarely expect consistent characterization in serialized media. I love comics and super heroes, but when a character, much less B listers who rarely get to shine on their own, are handed from writer to writer to writer over decades you will often get to a point where everyone just plays their own version of that character.

I kind of like this. It's more honestly soap operatic than say X-men was in the 90's (which was totally a soap opera where they couldn't talk about sex much). Though I will admit I should just have a checklist of tropes they're going through. (Sassy black lady, check. Cancer, check. Overly shy/weepy character, check.)

Though, I like the art a *great* deal more than the writing I must say. I think this is one of the best choices for this book.

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	yaspis 2009-07-05 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	Ooo, I really dig the art. And the voodoo doll with 'XOXOXO' cracked me the hell up. I apparently need to revise my decision on whether to buy this or not... (Reply to this)

	zegim 2009-07-05 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	This issue felt exactly like watching Sex and the City. Mind numbing boredom took hold of me an my eyes rolled so much they started to hurt. (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-07-05 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, so after sex she put on her underwear and then a towel? (Reply to this)

	scottyquick 2009-07-05 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, this art is incredible! (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-07-05 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	Hmmm, I bet now that BV is the new Sorcerer Supreme she might return his calls... (Reply to this)

	bariman1987 2009-07-06 01:30 am UTC (link)
	So this is gonna involve them raiding the Dark Avengers and/or Wakanda for a cure, right? (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-07-06 06:58 am UTC (link)

This comic has an uncanny ability to piss me off. I haven't even read half an issue's worth yet, and still it gets my blood boiling.
You want to move at your pace, do you, Monica? Then @#*&in' TELL him so, you brainless nit. Don't just zip out of there in your underwear. I've never even BEEN in that situation, and I can still tell you that that is precisely the wrong thing to do. This goes beyond 'commitment issues' and straight to 'fear of relationships, period'. I half expected her to start singing 'Don't Fence Me In' while fending him off with a rapier. (I... really have no idea where that image came from, but it works, doesn't it.) If you're THAT afraid of commitment, then your relationship needs would best be handled by unlicensed professionals (except in Nevada, of course).
And yes, he sent you a voodoo doll. That would be creepy if anyone else did it, I admit, but A: he's Brother VOODOO; it's kind of like his calling card. It'd be like if Captain America left you one of those teeny little American flags that you wave at parades. B: he attached a 'hugs and kisses' note to it, and C: it appears to be winking, so I somehow doubt it's intended for any malign purpose. Methinks this has more to do with your prejudices against voodoo and your pathological fear of any human contact past the moment of coitus.

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ryuutchi, 2009-07-07 04:49 am UTC

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psychop_rex, 2009-07-07 08:54 am UTC

	angelophile 2009-07-06 11:31 am UTC (link)
	I'm irritated by this. I like the art, but dislike almost every other thing about it, from characterisation, character designs, dialogue, plotting, tone... But that is some pretty art. I almost caved. (Reply to this)

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