Is Helena the Huntress featured in the back up story of march Detective Comics?
Last edited by Thirteen; 01-31-2021 at 07:54 AM.
I kinda love this new Huntress look, from today’s Infinite Frontier.
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I like the hair cut, and the costume is unique enough that I don't really need the pointy bits of her mask for now
Her movie 'costume' wasn't even a superhero costume. It was way too DIY.
I thought the new costume was okay. I'm curious who designed it. Jimenez throws a lot of costume design work out there but I didn't think there were any Infinite Frontier plans for Tynion & Jimenez to be the Huntress writers so you'd think whoever is drawing her for a story would do the design. Then again it doesn't always work that way with side characters. From a fashion point of view it looks okay - I like that it's a more muted hybridization of the recent Rebirth Huntress and the classic pretty elaborate BOP era costumes. The stripped down or low-key elements of it kind of lend themselves to her more recent Spyral gear. And the short midriff on that shirt is an ... okay design-inspired homage to the belly window, more a fashion choice than a "what the hell is this costume?" choice making it seem like it's just a useful shirt that doesn't quite come down all the way but evoking nostalgia in our brains gently.
That said it's still a pretty stupid thing for a combat-experienced vigilante crime fighter in a super-universe to go around exposing your bare abdomen when every Tom, Dick and Harry in Gotham is all about stabbing people with shivs and slitting throats happen every other issue.
Unless Helena starts killing people with guns and crossbows. You know, all those knives are less of a problem if you just shoot these fiends.
As always for fashionable or cool characters who are utilitarian, I'm always keen for Costume Variations to be an actual part of the character.
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