Originally Posted by
Tiamatty
Good idea. That was a misogynistic pile of crap. The original story had Ororo rescue T'Challa. Dickey apparently looked at that and said, "Wait, a woman rescuing a man? How silly! We can't have that! Everyone knows it's supposed to be the other way around!" I don't know if Dickey's otherwise had a good record in terms of representation of female characters, but that story disgusted me.
I would count it, if only because, hey, it's written by a woman, so it deserves some props.
Which reminds me, we should also be giving props to the women who've worked for Marvel. Kelly Sue DeConnick, obviously, has been doing great work with Captain Marvel. Pretty Deadly isn't Marvel, but it's also amazing, so I wanted to mention it. I think the first thing I read by her was the Osborn mini she did with Emma Rios. So damned good. That was where I first became aware of Rios, too, and both of them blew me away. And, of course, Bendis is a fan (and friend) of KSD, so he took her original characters from that mini and brought them into his New Avengers for an arc.
I've been reading plenty of old comics, and I really like Louise Simonson's '80s work. Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants - she did a lot of great stuff. Ann Nocenti was doing a lot of good stuff around the same time, with Power Man and Iron Fist, and then her Daredevil run (which I've been reading). And then the '90s came around and Marvel seemed to stop using female writers. For my own amusement, I compared two months: June 1985, and June 1995. In June 1985, there were three comics written by women: Ann Nocenti was doing a Beauty and the Beast mini starring Dazzler and Beast, and Louise Simonson was writing Power Pack (with June Brigman on pencils) and Web of Spider-Man. In June 1995, when Marvel put out a lot more comics, the number written by women was . . . none. Not a single one. Obviously, I was only comparing single months, though I checked September 1995, to the same result, and that's kinda sad.