I told someone offsite that this book will end on a wet fart, and boy Guggs proved me right. But honestly, it's not hard for him to do.
I told someone offsite that this book will end on a wet fart, and boy Guggs proved me right. But honestly, it's not hard for him to do.
In isolation, short hair isn't anti-Semitic. But a Jew hater like Syaf giving her that hair when she used to have curls is definitely erasure (though obviously this has been going on for much longer). It's not really any different from drawing Storm and Sunspot a few shades lighter or Riri Williams with straight hair.
I didn't read the issue yet, but reading the review brought a smile to my face.
I remember all the heat Kitty would give Scott and Emma for their leadership when they had to make decisions light years tougher than the ones Kitty was faced with. Its really easy to judge when you're not in the hot seat. Being the leader is not a fun job and the pressure is tremendous.
You may be a certified genius and a great professor, but that doesn't automatically make you a good Field Commander.
Kitty hasnt had curls in decades. Thats a stretch and I dont find that on the same level as the whitewashing that has been done with Sunspot. And there would be nothing wrong with Riri were she to get straight hair. Women change their hair all the time. There's nothing racial about that
I didn't find that issue to be all that bad, when taken in context of the series as a whole.
Guggenheim has developed Kitty consistently in a particular direction, though I understand those who dislike the direction. (I hated Austen's take on Nightcrawler, but was stuck with it as far as character development.) It could be argued that it was kind of a natural progression, given her early years of bratty behavior, at times.
He's shown her, in no uncertain terms, to be self-absorbed, immature and hypocritical through his run. I have no idea if Guggenheim (or editorial) intended this development, but it's there. Like Hank and Scott's egos got in the way of decision making, so has Kitty's. A chief difference is the way the rest of the team have treated them.
Kitty has gotten a pass from teammates, by and large. Instead of being called out on her high-handedness and fickleness, she's still been coddled as "everyone's kitten" -- the little sister grown up. She doesn't respect them for it -- the opposite, in fact. It makes the rest of them look hypocritical, as well. She's obviously capable of crossing lines to get what she thinks is right, no different than Beast or Cyclops or Emma. Any follow up should bear that in mind.
The series as a whole was, like others have said, a Kitty solo couched in a team book. There's no excuse for the poor way everyone else has been written in this.
As far as dedicating this to Claremont, it seems a bit of a backhand, to me, given what's happened to CC's darling in it.
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Have been informed that the Black Swans are "only seeking female members, but thank you very much for your time"
Good riddance.
I always thought it was silly that a human can gain powers through tattoos written on him. Gugg must have got the idea when he went to Thailand for a holiday and got some tattoos himself.
Any transference of power should be temporary.
Ink technically isn't a mutant.