Black Cat/Felicia Hardy Appreciation 2023

**Garlador** · 08-10-2023, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Zeitgeist

Comic scripts are written and turned in many months in advance, so I doubt this is in reply to any section of readers tbh.

Like Ms. Marvel, I truly believe they intended it to be this way. And like Ms. Marvel, I think they didn’t really execute it very well. Squandered potential even with an inevitable outcome is still squandered potential.

**Frontier** · 08-10-2023, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Jman27

The real purpose of having Mj and Felicia in this run is for the variants.

Probably the only time she'll actually be in this run moving forward.

**Majesty** · 08-10-2023, 08:07 PM

**Mr. White** · 08-11-2023, 01:37 AM

Originally Posted by Agent Z

Here's what's odd about the reason for the break up to me.

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Felicia crashes the Bachelorette party for Janice, she has a talk with the Beetle and Janice reveals that Randy tries to convince her to change her ways, which shows he really cares about her. Felicia then begins to doubt her own relationship with Peter because he doesn't work towards the goal of redeeming her.

Except this parallel doesn't quite work. Beetle is a villain who's fine with hurting people. Felicia regularly performs heroic acts, either by herself or when she's teaming up with another hero, hardly does any stealing and when she does engage in theft, she does her best to avoid people getting hurt. If anything, Peter and Felicia have the kind of relationship Randy and Janice wish they had.

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Still, Felicia was perhaps the least aggravating part of this run.

Oh well. We can only go up from here.

^Odd? Yes. Do I care? No. Is it welcome? Hell Yes!

Good riddance. IMO it was a step back for the character after McKay's work.

^^That's the prayer.

**Agent Z** · 08-11-2023, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by Daibhidh

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I query your "hardly does any stealing". Pretty much all the stories in Jed Mackay's run consist of Felicia sets out to steal something. And it's great from a storytelling point of view. But not something Peter could bring himself to approve of.
I don't think the Peter / Felicia relationship could work as long as Felicia is a thief. But... in a healthy relationship that's either up to Felicia to decide or else for Peter to make it clear that it's a red line before they start the relationship. It's not healthy for Peter to get into the relationship and then try to change Felicia. (Unless she keeps forgetting to replace the toilet roll.)

But since when does Felicia take relationship advice from Janice Lincoln? True, Felicia started out as a naive teenaged girl with a crush - but she has matured since then. Jed Mackay's Felicia is a confident young woman who understands what she's about.

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Did Felicia even steal anything in this run? It seems all she did was date Peter and help in superheroics. Even the recent stories written by McKay that featured her only had her trying to steal something once.

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**Frontier** · 08-11-2023, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Agent Z

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Did Felicia even steal anything in this run? It seems all she did was date Peter and help in superheroics. Even the recent stories written by McKay that featured her only had her trying to steal something once.

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I think Peter questioned if she was in the middle of a robbery and she deflected in one of the earlier issues.

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**Phoenixx9** · 08-11-2023, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Majesty

I love this pic!

Where is it from? Did you get it at the SDCC 2023?

**Daibhidh** · 08-11-2023, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by Agent Z

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Did Felicia even steal anything in this run? It seems all she did was date Peter and help in superheroics. Even the recent stories written by McKay that featured her only had her trying to steal something once.

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Presumably addressing that question would have required treating Felicia as having an existence beyond her relationship to Peter.

**Astroman** · 08-11-2023, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Majesty

Is that supposed to be Felicia? "El Gato Sonriente" means "The Smiling Cat" in English and is a common translation of "The Cheshire Cat" from Lewis Carroll.

**kcekada** · 08-16-2023, 11:53 AM

I think so based on the furry boots and mask. But if the pic hadn't been posted here, I wouldn't have thought so.

**Astroman** · 08-16-2023, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by kcekada

I think so based on the furry boots and mask. But if the pic hadn't been posted here, I wouldn't have thought so.

Looking at Dodson's blog pages from back then, it seems more like a unique creation for that SDCC year.

And if he did mean it to be Felicia he should have named it "La Gata Negra" ("The Black Cat" - feminine) not "El Gato Sonriente" ("The Smiling Cat" - masculine).

But, cool art whoever it is supposed to be!