The Tigra & Dazzler Show (2019)
The Tigra & Dazzler Show (2019)
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I have liked Tigra especially in the WCA. I was hopping she would stick around the newer version after the first arc.
I'd have kept the long hair for Tigra -- and given the short hair to Dazzler -- since she's known for having both short and long hair. Tigra with short hair looks like something out of Thundercats.
Giant-Size Creatures #1 Jul 1974
"Tigra - the Were-Woman!"
As the Cat, Greer Nelson is struck by a new Hydra weapon
that will condemn her to death by radiation poisoning. To save her life, her mentor Dr. Tumolo takes her to the hidden lair of the Cat People
to have her reborn as Tigra, the Were-Woman!
Hydra attacks again, abducting Tigra, Tumolo and the Cat People in an effort to gain the secret of their ultimate weapon.
Jack Russell, the Werewolf, happens to be passing by when Tigra is taken and joins the fight.
In order to defeat Hydra, Tumolo releases their final secret upon them, the same Black Plague that the Cat People had released and cured centuries ago.
Script by Tony Isabella, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Vince Colletta
Art of Tigra by various artists from her first three decades of being published in the 1970s through the 1990s:
Don Perlin, Will Meugniot, Frank Robbins, John Byrne, George Tuska
Sal Buscema, George Perez, Mike Vosburg, Mike Zeck, Jim Starlin
Alan Kupperberg, Kerry Gammill, Brian Postman, Al Milgrom, Andy Mushynsky
Luke McDonnell, Bob Hall, Greg LaRocque, Steve Ditko, Rich Howell
John Buscema, Ron Frenz, Tom Morgan, Rich Buckler, Bob Layton
Paul Ryan, Chuck Patton, June Brigman, Steve Butler, David Ross
Herb Trimpe, Vince Russell, John Czop, Ron Garney
Last edited by Electricmastro; 10-17-2019 at 01:00 AM.
So I heard that Tigra started out as a fairly competent superhero but became less so when she transferred to the Avengers. Anyone more familiar with the character who can shed light on this please?
That's basically true. Jim Shooter wanted to add a member in his second (horrible) run that demonstrated not every character was cut out to be an Avenger. He turned Tigra into a scaredy-cat -- and pretty much ignored all of her abilities. And Byrne didn't help when he had her start reverting to a catlike creature. She was just a dangling plotline in his West Coast Avengers run.
In her solo adventures, she actually went up against Super-Skrull. That's not Avengers material?
Roger Stern tried to rectify Shooter's misfire, but he was only on West Coast Avengers for the initial mini-series. I can't say that Englehart did a great job with her, but it was better than what Shooter and Byrne did.
Tigra has a guest-spot in X-Men in the early 80s when Dave Cockrum had returned. She briefly tangled with Deathbird in a story, but nothing really came of that.
The Tigra mini-series by Christina Z and Mike Deodato did a pretty good job of bringing Tigra back to her roots, but I don't think other writers followed up on it very well. And than there's Bendis -- who seemed to be aping Shooter in character assassination.
When did the character gain a tail? And am I the only one who hates it?
West Coast Avengers #15
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I didn't particularly care for it at first, but got used to it over time.