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Profile: Storm 2006-12-01 11:23:00
Ororo Munroe, Storm
First appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1, 1975
Current status: prominent field leader for the X-Men.
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: she'd almost been raped when she was twelve and was trying to flee from Cairo, where she'd grown up most of her life. She killed her attacker with a knife in self-defense, but swore never to take another life. In the mid-80s, for about two years, she took on a ridiculous mohawk hairstyle. Later on, Henry Peter Gyrich, the Avengers' unlikable UN liason, shot her with a Neutralizer device that drained her powers from her in Uncanny X-Men #185. It took until issue #227 for her to have her powers properly restored, when Forge, then her boyfriend, built an anti-Neutralizer to help reverse the effects.
There are also times when she's gone insane from anguish, but which are too hard for me to find and compile together as examples just now.
What's wrong with how this was done? That depends on what we're
Record: The MSM Hall of Shame 2006-11-29 21:23:00 "MSM" is an acronym for the Main-Stream Media that can be found as a reference to it in many places across the blogosphere today. Like, say, to the New York Times, Boston Globe, CNN, Washington Post, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, and other assorted bastions of dishonesty in reporting the news. That dishonesty in news reporting, let me tell you, can and does extend to comic books as well. I've seen more than enough dumbed-down, sleazy, sensationalized, double-talking and extremely dishonest newspaper and TV articles on comics over the years, and this, a topic that can be expanded if and whenever I find something worth filing here, is where I'll be posting some of the worst quotes I can find or that I know of from the loathsome MSM, with boldfaced linings included to emphasize the propaganda. Now, let us take a look at some of the biggest stinkers we have in store here, all courtesy of our real life versions of J. Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle.First, there's this tre Read more:Record
Profile: Batgirl 2 2006-11-18 19:09:00
Cassandra Cain, Batgirl 2
First appearance: Batman #567, July 1999, during the No Man's Land crossover.
Current status: believe it or not, not only did she abandon the path of goodness that the Masked Manhunter's Gotham family tried to help her find, ditto her secret ID, she's now become the leader of the League of Assassins. Yes, that very League that Ra's al Ghul founded back in the Bronze Age.
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: her [illegitimate?] father, ganglord David Cain, never taught her real vocal or written languages. Rather, he just taught her how to study body languages, for the purpose of making her an assassin. When she joined up with the Bat-family, she did learn more about how talk and communicate, yet she still remained very limited in dialect, and was unable to accomplish much in mathematics, if at all.
Batman is also guilty on his own end regarding his personal failure to provide Cassie with an education (it appears that no Bat-wri
Profile: Robin 1/Nightwing 2006-11-16 17:33:00 Dick Grayson, Robin
1/NightwingFirst appearance: historically speaking, Dick Grayson first debuted in 1940 in Batman, though by today's standards, that would be regarded as the Robin of Earth-2, who, while he grew up, he never took on a different codename for himself, and has since been written out of continuity. If it's the Silver Age we're talking about, that's a good question. I would say that the Dick Grayson we know today debuted in the mid-1950s. He took up the role of Nightwing in 1984, at the time taking his name from an old Kryptonian legend, later on just thinking of the name himself in post-Crisis years.Current status: still a member of the current Outsiders, though whether you could call him a leader with the way it's being written is remains in question.Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: in Nightwing #93, he was raped by a villainess called Tarantula.That does sound hard to believe, doesn't it? But, in the age of the internet, little seems ha
Profile: Jade 2006-11-15 22:03:00
Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, Jade
First appearance: All-Star Squadron #25, September 1983. A few months afterward, she became a team member in Infinity Inc, the teens-to-young adults series that starred the offspring of the Justice Society, which ran 1984-88.
Current status: dead (?)
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: while she may have shone her metaphysically acquired GL's light in Infinity Inc, where she was a team member when she first started out, in later years, she became a very underwhelmingly used (underused?) character. For example, in Green Lantern #111 Vol. 3, when she had a chance to really prove herself in saving John Stewart from the villainess Fatality, Jenny-Lynn instead finds her power running low, and it's thanks to the fact that then paramour Kyle Rayner comes back from space at that very moment that's she saved from being trampled by Fatality. She lost her powers again in the following issue, and while she did acquire some similar to thos
Record: Chris Claremont 2006-11-12 17:27:00 Unlike most others, I don't participate in the Claremont-bashing that's cropped up in the past several years. Well, not for the same reasons most others do anyway. But that doesn't mean there isn't anything that I don't hold against him in complaint; there is sadly some things, and while it may not be that long a list, here's a few things on his resume which really anger me.
The Phoenix story, which first appeared in X-Men in 1979. What is it exactly that disgusts me about it? Is it that IMO, it runs the gauntlet of stereotyping a women as a mass-executioner? Well, that could be one of the problems I personally have with it as of today. But I certainly am furious about it because of all the imitations it's led to! Which will come up next. Some time after Jean Grey had been absolved of the Phoenix fiasco, along comes another story in which Claremont recycled the story again, this time involving one Madelyne Pryor, a clone of Jean whom Scott ended up marrying for a tim Read more:Record
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Profile: Batgirl 1/Oracle 2006-11-08 21:13:00
Barbara Gordon, Batgirl 1/Oracle
First appearance: Detective Comics in 1967
Current status: today, she works as computer master Oracle, the info broker in the DCU for many superheroes and other crimefighters.
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: in 1988, in Batman: The Killing Joke, she was shot and paralyzed by the Joker, who'd arrived at her apartment with the intent of striking at both Commissioner Gordon and his niece. After shooting her, he added insult to injury by photographing her in her helpless state.
What's wrong with how this was done? Some could argue that it was sensationalism gone amok. Perhaps additionally troubling is that DC decided to put the premise in actual continuity, when writer Alan Moore hadn't intended it that way when he first began it.
Was there anything good to come out of this? The good news is that Alan Moore, when he wrote that special back in 1988, did handle it well, by providing Babs with her own viewpoint/voice, and
Profile: Psylocke 2006-12-09 18:16:00
Betsy Braddock, Psylocke
First appearance: 1976 in Captain Britain. She's the twin sister of Brian Braddock, and at one point took up the role in his stead. In 1986, when she, along with kunoichi (female ninja) Kwannon, were captured by villainess Spiral, they had the essence of their bodies switched, and were even brainwashed as well, in one of the most bizarre storylines of the Bronze/Iron Age.
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: she was violently assaulted by the villain named Slaymaster (whom her brother Brian killed to defend her), and was blinded for a time. In 1996, she was gashed by Sabretooth, and it was thanks to the Crimson Dawn that she was healed. In 2001, she was slain by a villain named Vargas, all so that writer Chris Claremont could replace her with an obvious clone (in fighting style anyway), the former Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, in the pages of X-Treme X-Men (now cancelled).
What's wrong with how this was done? Two violent acts of a
Profile: Omen 2006-12-13 18:01:00
Lilith Clay, Omen
First appearance: Teen Titans #25 Vol. 1, 1970
Current status: dead
Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: in Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day in 2003, she was slain by a Superman robot along with Donna Troy. Two years later, Brother Blood tried to exploit hers and other dead Titans' souls, for the purpose of getting Lilith to be his newest Mother Mayhem. After being thwarted, Lilith's and the other dead Titans' souls just returned to the afterlife.
What's wrong with how this was done? This is symbolic of the unpleasant trend of late where, instead of trying to develop characters and breathing new life into them, the writers and editors can only think of killing them off. Just because Lilith Clay, until now, never really had an exact origin offered to her, doesn't justify terminating her.
To make matters worse, DC Comics has been trying to sweep the whole case of Lilith under the rug since then, and when the third and current volu
Record: Brad Meltzer 2006-12-18 07:46:00 But of course this big phony was going to be listed here sooner or later, as no matter how big or small his standing in the industry is, it would be foolish to leave him out. In practically but a single miniseries, he has managed to establish himself as a most serious offender. His list of offenses include:
Making virtually all of the women in Identity Crisis into one-dimensional lemmings, panicky, hysterical, insane, needing to be coddled and calmed, unable to defend themselves from assaults by males, and acting totally out of character in contrast to past storytelling. Depicting Dr. Light out-of-character, and having him violate Sue Dibny in one of the grossest storylines ever, written in the ways of a bad fanfic. Depicting Zatanna being punched in the stomach by Deathstroke, also out-of-character. Depicting Deathstroke attacking Black Canary by…no, forget it. It's just too sadistic. Even male characters do not emerge unscathed. Flash is stabbed by Deathstroke, who als Read more:Record
Record: Geoff Johns 2006-12-24 22:11:00 Although not as overt in potential bias to women as some other writers are, Johns
still has a few noteworthy faults of his own that can be put on record here, as follows:
The use of Magenta in The Flash as an insane tool, and even the questionable characterization of Girder as a possible sex offender. In The Flash #199, the neo-Reverse-Flash strikes Linda Park West to the ground with a vibrating shockwave, terminating her pregnancy until the time-warp effects in issues #224-225 change all that. His story in The Flash #213 implying that the Turtle could be a child-molestor was a very serious abuse of a longtime character. He went along with the whole Identity Crisis crap, even in the pages of JSA, with the first storyline stemming from that in 2004 being really painful (and autopsy on Sue). So too in fact was the second one a year later, with the Spectre, and the corrupted Jean Loring-as-Eclipso. He wrote an awful story in Teen Titans featuring Captain Carrot and his Amaz Read more:Record
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Profile: Polaris 2006-12-28 16:52:00
Lorna Dane, Polaris
First appearance: The X-Men in 1967
Current status: occasional member of the X-Men.
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: when the onetime hack writer Chuck Austen was assigned to write Uncanny X-Men in 2003, he savaged her character with alarming heavy-handedness, writing her with some of the most unbearable dialect you've ever heard in comics. All this in order to put her at odds with the rest of the X-Men, alienate her, and even to ruin her relationship with Havok.
What's wrong with how this was done? No realism whatsoever, just character assassination by a writer who clearly had no respect for the characters, and was only interested in money.
It's fortunate that this has since been dropped and forgotten, but that doesn't excuse the negligence they led to in the first place, which could have been avoided, and was one of the biggest farces in comics history.
Profile: Ice 2007-01-03 17:24:00
Tora Olafsdotter, Ice (also Ice Maiden 2)
First appearance: Justice League International #12, April 1988. She was the daughter of a king of a tribe of magical ice people in Norway, and at one point she even took up the longer name of a predecessor, Ice Maiden, who'd first worked as the Global Guardians' representative from Norway before her, that being Sigrid Nansen. She was also loved by Guy Gardner.
Current status: dead
Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: she was killed while turning against the Overmaster, who'd offered her a power-up, in Justice League Task Force #14, July 1994.
What's wrong with how this was done? Apparently, it was all part of an editorial mandate, something which, in fact, had originally been intended back around the time when she debuted. But when she started catching on with readers and received a much-deserved following, that's what kept DC editorial from killing her off initially. Unfortunately, in 1994, the fate first inten
Profile: Jean DeWolff 2007-01-10 18:55:00
Jean DeWolff
First appearance: Marvel Team-Up #48. She was a NY police captain and frequent guest star for a time in Spider-Man's adventures, proving a most helpful ally many times.
Current status: dead
Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: she was terminated by her ex-lover Stan Carter, alias Sin-Eater.
What's wrong with how this was done? I think it was a case of needlessly tossing out yet another cast member of Spidey's world with potential. Jean had some very good moments, and why not give her some more?
Was there anything good to come out of this? That it may have had some dramatic impact and value to it. The story can be found today compiled in trade format, in Amazing Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff, co-authored by Peter David and Rich Buckler. It was revealed that her feeling towards Spidey may have been even warmer than what she may have usually indicated.
Record: Rags Morales 2007-01-14 18:26:00 Even artists have their share of faults and blame (someday, maybe I'll let you know what I think of Dick Dillin for 2 or 3 nigh-offensive panels he drew in Justice League of America in the early 1970s), and in Mr. Morales
' case, he certainly hasn't done himself much good by taking one positive item he drew, and then damaging his credibility upon that with another. What exactly am I referencing here? Well, that'll come up in just a moment:
In Hawkman Vol. 4, we get the background of Kendra Saunders, current Hawkgirl, who, when she was around 13 years old, had been out with her mother Trina in the west Texas countryside where her mother, a skilled landscape painter, was spending the day working on her talent, when two racist patrolmen came along and took the two of them hostage at gunpoint, with the intention of raping Mrs. Saunders out of a hate crime (Kendra and her mother are of Hispanic background). Kendra fought back against one of the two policemen, whose name was Ne Read more:Record
Record: Kevin Smith 2007-01-17 21:02:00 Once upon a time, I wrote upon a message board where another poster said that, while KevinSmith
may be a good filmmaker (well, I guess that can be debated), he's a pretty awful comic book writer. And after some of the examples I'm about to give here, I'm beginning to wonder the same thing.
Smith began the second volume of Daredevil that ran under the now defunct Marvel Knights label in 1998, and in issue #5, Karen Page came back into Matt Murdock's life, tricked into thinking she fell ill with HIV only to be killed by Bullseye, instead of installing new life into her as a supporting character. In Green Arrow vol. 2, he starts off his story with a crime kingpin about to sodomize a young girl (Mia?), before Oliver Queen comes in to save the day. Pretty excessive, if I do say so myself. And then, most notorious, and most sloppy of all, for more reasons than one, was his Black Cat miniseries, which got stalled halfway through in 2002, but not before we were left with a clif Read more:Record
Record: Grant Morrison 2007-01-25 15:25:00 He's overrated, and his criticism of Frank Miller on Newsarama was in poor taste, one more reason why his work will do quite well for scrutiny. So, what did he do that makes the list here? It's mostly from his take on X-Men that this comes from.
He regurgitated the Phoenix farrago, had Cyclops utter a nerve-wracking sentence as if Jean were the Phoenix, warning her that she could "lose control" again, then started giving Jean Phoenix-style powers again under the claim that it was a "rogue manifestation". Boring! Also uncalled for. We get a stereotypical villainess in Cassandra Nova (and why did she have the codename of minor superhero Richard Ryder?). If you don't know how she sliced a scientist named Trask to death, you won't want to know even now. Filthy!
Morrison
's depiction of Magneto was one of the most obnoxious, crass abuses of an already misused character I've ever seen. It's bad enough that Magneto may have caused tons of deaths in the early 1990s Read more:Record
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Profile: Magik 2007-01-26 14:46:00
Illyana Rasputina, Magik
First appearance: She was first seen as a child in Giant-Size X-Men #1, but her first actual appearance was Uncanny X-Men #160. She's the younger sister of Piotr Rasputin (Colossus), and like him is also a native of Russia. (In English, her last name does not include the letter A at the end, but that appears to be how they spelled it not just for her, but even for her mother!) She was a member of New Mutants and a good friend of Kitty Pryde.
Current status: dead
Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: held captive by the villainous Arcade and his assistant Miss Locke to use as a pawn in attacking the X-Men, held captive by a sorceror named Belasco in the Otherplace (Limbo) dimension, where he turned part of her soul demonic, used it to conjure up bloodstones, and even made her look part vampiric before she finally beat him in a battle and drove him out of his own realm, regaining her human form again. However, she later became infected wit
Record: John Byrne 1970-01-01 00:59:59 John Byrne
may be well known as the writer and artist of many Marvel and DC series and characters, to say nothing of his being a ret-con machine (Marvel Two-In-One #50 may have been a precursor to what he really ended up doing in subsequent years as a ret-conner), but he may also be known for a lot of discrimination against women in whatever he's worked on as a writer, even subliminally. Between his debut in comic books in the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, there were quite a few books he wrote where sexism had a presence, even if you couldn't always see it. To enjoy any of his works can often require big doses of salt. Here is my own list of discriminatory acts Byrne included in his own writing resume in years past:In Fantastic Four #232, when Byrne first began his five-year stint on the FF, Sue Storm got a short tomboy haircut. (A throwaway citation, to be sure, but what the heck, I'll put in it anyway.) Which may have been a precursor for another detail to be described here later. Read more:Record
Profile: Pepper Potts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Virginia "Pepper
" Potts
First appearance: Tales of Suspense #45, 1963. She was executive secretary for Tony Stark/Iron Man and his business firms. She'd been married to another of his employees, Harold "Happy" Hogan for a time, but later divorced.Current status: working in other businesses today, she still maintains some connections with Tony Stark.Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: the only storyline I know of where Pepper was given the PC treatment was in Iron Man #52-54, when she was brutally beaten by a woman of Muslim background (!) from a Chechnya-like country named Ayisha with whom Tony had a brief affair with at one point, who fell victim to the effects of one of Tony's own inventions, a "living" form of armor, and because it was preventing her from maintain any proper life, and also making it hard for her to commit suicide, so she sought to try and push him over the edge by going to Pepper's house and assaulting her, and, worst of all, terminati
Profile: Mockingbird 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Bobbi Morse, Mockingbird
First appearance: Astonishing Tales #6, June 1971Current status: deadWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: at the end of West Coast Avengers in 1993, where she'd been a longtime member, she was shot in the back and murdered by Mephisto. Hawkeye/Clint Barton, her husband for several years, became a widower.What's wrong with how this was done? Yet another pointless offing of a female character, and what really made it bombastic was that, as far as I know, Mephisto had never been interested in actually killing anyone before. Put another way, it wasn't like him to try and take anyone's life for real.Since then, there's been one story in which she turned up as a corpse in a plot conceived by the Grim Reaper to destroy the Avengers. Yet, she remains dead, with no clear way to tell if she'll ever be revived to full life again or not.
Profile: Jesse Quick 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Jesse (Quick
) ChambersFirst appearance: Justice Society of America #1, 1992Current status: may be slated to officially join the JSA in time.Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: Geoff Johns didn't exactly make much use out of her when he wrote the Flash from 2000-2005, and in the middle of the run, in issue #200, he wrote that she put all her energy into Wally West to fight the new Reverse-Flash, but as a result of doing so, she knocked the exact connection she has to her father's special speed formula, which she first began taking at a young age, out of place, and couldn't access it properly.What's wrong with how this was done? Her act in and of itself may have been with noble intentions, to help stop a demonic fiend, but it doesn't excuse the fact that Johns seemed to have done it simply as a way of all but writing her out of use, instead of trying to make some real use out of her as a character.Was there anything good to come out of this? Yes, in that Johns Read more:Jesse
Profile: Mary Jane Watson-Parker 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Mary Jane Watson
-Parker
First appearance: approximately late 1965 in Amazing Spider-Man, although she may not have been seen in direct view. It was in mid-1966 when she made her first actual appearance in ASM #42, with the now famous scene where she tells Peter Parker, "Face it, tiger! You've just hit the jackpot!" The daughter of estranged/divorced parents, she was a teen woman's libber, or just a very independent girl who thought for herself, and did her best to rise from the blue-collar existence she first grew up in around New York City by achieving a successful career in acting on stage and in supermodeling.Current status: married to our friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man since 1987.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: editorial bias, you could say. It would seem as though, out of nowhere, there came some anti-MJ bias, by the writers/editors and even by some alleged Spider-Fans, that's led in recent years to her being subjected to misuse by the writing an Read more:Mary Jane
Profile: Betty Ross-Banner 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Betty Ross-Banner
First appearance: 1962 in the Incredible Hulk #1 (first volume. The second one grew out of Tales to Astonish)Current status: may have turned up alive and under the influence of Nightmare in 2004, when the Hulk experienced a bizarre adventure on an island in the sea.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: her first husband, Glenn Talbot, had dealt her quite a few beatings when he realized that she loved Bruce Banner, the Hulk, more than she loved Glenn, she was even turned into a creature called Harpy at one point by MODOK, she went through at least one miscarriage, and then, in 1998, to cap it all off, she was secretly poisoned to death by Emil Blonsky, the Abomination.What's wrong with how this was done? The Hulk's own world may be a dark one, I'll admit to that. But they still went way too far, capped off with the death Peter David put her through in 1998, which may have been done as an act of revenge upon Marvel's own editorial for some compli Read more:Betty
Profile: Talia al-Ghul 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Talia al-GhulFirst appearance: Detective Comics #441, May 1971Current status: a villainess, thanks to possible manipulation by ways of both her father Ra's al-Ghul and half-sister Nyssa.Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: in Batman: Death and the Maidens, she was captured and brainwashed by Nyssa as part of a revenge plot against Ra's, but was actually part of a larger plot in which Ra's plotted to convince or brainwash both daughters into accepting roles as leaders of his League of Assassins, and the Demon gang. She disavowed her love for Batman during this time and turned against him as a result of the torture she underwent at the hands of Nyssa (who appears to have since been killed by Cassandra Cain).What's wrong with how this was done? They ruined one of the best anti-heroines in comics, and one of the best recurring characters in the Batbooks. All of this was apparently done to coincide with "events" leading up to Infinite Crisis, and as a tie to Vil
Profile: Golden Glider 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Lisa Snart, GoldenGlider
First appearance: The Flash #250 Vol 1, 1977. The sister of Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold, she was co-created by Irv Novick, who gave her a costume design almost similar to one worn by Talia al-Ghul that he drew for her in the Batbooks.Current status: deadWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: Mark Waid, when writing the 1992 Flash Annual, reverted her to her criminal status, after all the time when, since Barry Allen had died in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, she'd reformed, not having any further purpose for being a criminal - the Flash was her only reason for being one, as she held him responsible for the death of her boyfriend, the Top, and wanted to seek revenge upon by targeting his loved ones, whether they be Iris West Allen or Barry's parents. Then, in 1996, after being largely out of the picture for four years, Waid revealed her having been frozen to death by one of the Chillblaines she'd recruited as her crime partners/boyfrie
Profile: Jean Loring 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Jean LoringFirst appeared in: Showcase #34, 1961Current status: was possessed by the Eclipso diamond, and then paralyzed in orbit(?).Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: in The Atom and Hawkman #45, Oct-Nov 1969, the last issue of the Silver Age Atom series, she was brainwashed/tortured into insanity by a subatomic race called the Jimberen, who thought her to be a descendant of an old queen of theirs, after they used a radiation-based device with which to brainwash her (see this page from Darkmark's Comics Indexing Domain for details). She was fully cured of these effects in Justice League of America #81, June 1970, with Hawkman's help there too, when he took her to Thanagar for treatment to cure her. She later fell prey to a similar situation in Super-Team Family #11, June-July 1977, when there too, she was brainwashed by more alien menaces. In 2004, after an absence of 4-5 years, she was turned into a plot device, just like Sue Dibny, in Identity Crisis: she was
Profile: Elektra 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Elektra NachiosFirst appearance: Daredevil #168 Vol. 1, 1979Current status: wandering the globe, not knowing what to really do with herself, certainly not the writers.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: murdered in bloody fashion by Bullseye in Daredevil #181 Vol. 1, 1983, one of the most vile acts of his career, but was resurrected in four years later (or was it in DD #190?). Since then, she has reformed, but has found little purpose, artistically anyway.What's wrong with how this was done? Elektra is a rather complicated matter. It's not that there was actually anything wrong with her being offed by Bulleye in the first place, unless you were to count that it was meant to influence Matt Murdock's own development rather than hers. But while resurrection in comics, certainly for females, is something that's actually welcome, in her case it's fairly questionable, since the writers who took up tasks of working on her since then have not been able to figure ou Read more:Elektra
Profile: Jarella 1970-01-01 00:59:59 JarellaFirst appearance: The Incredible Hulk 140, 1971. She was the queen of a magical kingdom on a subatomic planet called K'ai.Current status: dead and buriedWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: in The Incredible Hulk #205 in 1976, she was killed by a falling slab of concrete from a damaged building while the Hulk was clashing with a robot called the Crypto-Man while saving a little boy from the same fate.What's wrong with how this was done? Nothing at all, really. It was pretty well handled in its time. Jarella died heroically while saving an innocent life from harm's way.Was there anything good to come out of this? Jarella's story made for a very good one in its time. Even after her death, there was still much to be wrapped up, as the Hulk had to return her to her home planet where she could be given a decent burial, as was done in 1980.It's an all but overlooked story that, if and when published in trade paperback, would be quite worthwhile to try out.
Record: Judd Winick 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I don't own any of his books, and there are many stories he wrote that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. And here below are a handful of examples of what's wrong with him, not the least being that he's what's come to be known today as a moonbat: In 2003, he wrote Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, in which he killed off Donna Troy and Lilith Clay, the latter who's been largely swept under the rug by DC since, and let's just say that the women in that would-be miniseries virtually all come off badly there. It was one of the most rushed and worst items ever made. In 2005, he co-wrote Countdown to Infinite Crisis, in which Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, was killed off in gruesome, excessive fashion. When he took up writing Green Arrow, he wrote that Mia, who became a new Speedy, was infected with HIV in a forced storyline. Maybe not as bad as what Kevin Smith, when he intro'd her, did, but still uncalled for. In the 57th issue of GA, Dr. Light gloats about the Read more:Record
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