Random Marvel-Related Notes
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dewlineYes, I saw the new Captain America: Civil War trailer. Was thrilled in all the right places. One quibble: the counts for those three MCU disaster events during Secretary Ross' briefing scene? The numbers for the Battle of the Triskelion in Washington, DC strike me as far too low. In dollars and lives.
About the comic book A-Force? The latest issue - # 3 - arrived this week, and I'm feeling a bit down here, as planned.
Alison "Dazzler" Blaire died. KIA against the entity called "Anti-Matter".
I was just starting to get into Marvel stuff when she started appearing in Uncanny X-Men. Around the time of the Dark Phoenix Saga, the first one. Kitty Pryde was getting started in the same story arc. I think she'd have been the third female Marvel character to get her own solo series, after Jessica Drew and Carol Danvers, but check with Peter Sanderson or George Olshevsky to be sure about that.
Over thirty years of misadventures published. Ex-law student. Musician who never gave up on that dream until her last day. Failed actor whose career started and ended with a blacklisted movie. Superhero. SHIELD agent. Survivor of kidnapping and enslavement by organized crime.
All of that now done, apparently. She died on a space station miles above home. I'm not even sure she has any family left to mourn her, although she was forced to leave many friends behind by the being who chose to be the death of her.
I wonder how Kitty will react to the news.
More on other stuff later.
About the comic book A-Force? The latest issue - # 3 - arrived this week, and I'm feeling a bit down here, as planned.
Alison "Dazzler" Blaire died. KIA against the entity called "Anti-Matter".
I was just starting to get into Marvel stuff when she started appearing in Uncanny X-Men. Around the time of the Dark Phoenix Saga, the first one. Kitty Pryde was getting started in the same story arc. I think she'd have been the third female Marvel character to get her own solo series, after Jessica Drew and Carol Danvers, but check with Peter Sanderson or George Olshevsky to be sure about that.
Over thirty years of misadventures published. Ex-law student. Musician who never gave up on that dream until her last day. Failed actor whose career started and ended with a blacklisted movie. Superhero. SHIELD agent. Survivor of kidnapping and enslavement by organized crime.
All of that now done, apparently. She died on a space station miles above home. I'm not even sure she has any family left to mourn her, although she was forced to leave many friends behind by the being who chose to be the death of her.
I wonder how Kitty will react to the news.
More on other stuff later.
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Date: 2016-03-12 03:04 pm (UTC)OTOH, I got out of comics long ago, so a lot of what happened after I didn't follow.
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Date: 2016-03-12 03:31 pm (UTC)That aside, after her solo series ended, the "Morlock Massacre" started her off on the X-Men roller-coaster, trapping her in a career she never really intended for herself.
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Date: 2016-03-12 04:08 pm (UTC)Marvel put out a line of female-led (and female-written) titles in the '70s -- The Cat, Shanna the She-Devil, and Night Nurse. And if you go back to the '40s, there's Namora, Miss America, and Sun Girl. But Dazzler's series lasted longer than all of those put together.
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