That took a dark but all too real a turn.
Unfortunately it’s the reason I have been unable to read and enjoy much of what
is being produced by Marvel and DC these days. They continue to stomp on my
childhood memories.
I recall that I almost dropped the Legion back when for the sake of the that
the edict that all DC big events had to involve the Legion, even though they
were 1000 years in the future, they made Laurel Kent a Manhunter.
Miki A
On Jan 19, 2021, at 11:23 AM, zzutak <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gene in January, Day Eighteen
Daredevil #90, page 17 by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer
https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1695793
Here's another flashback page to the Black Widow's first mission. Natasha is
gradually reinventing herself from the established spy fiction tropes of the
times, declining to be a compliant ingénue to chauvinist exemplar Danny
French's unwelcome advances. If you were a fan of James Bond movies growing
up in this era, it wasn't unusual to have a pretty confused and regressive
conception of how women liked to be treated.
This tale of the early Black Widow has probably been retconned out of
existence several times by now. I admit to being less than thrilled with the
repeated meddling with Natasha's back story in modern comics. Jack Kirby
advised young artists to create their own new characters, rather than to riff
endlessly on his own previous work, and I think that applies to these endless
retcons and reboots, as well. The current Black Widow is a clone, Natasha
having been murdered by Captain America; her pre-Avengers history is now
linked to Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (she's interesting enough on her
own without endlessly pairing her off with other heroes) and, worst of all
Ivan Petrovich, Natasha's surrogate father- and later chauffeur and
confidant- was retconned into a homicidal incest robot. I hope that, when
they die, these modern comics writers have to answer for their unpardonable
sins.
Don't get me started on what they did to Gwen Stacy.
Pax,
Sean
