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Post by Cheswick on Nov 23, 2017 11:03:40 GMT -5
Elsa Bloodstone Thorn/Rose Canton When did Elsa Bloodstone become a ginger? She was a blonde in her intro mini-series -M Ever since her appearance in Nextwave, she's been a redhead. I actually didn't realize she used to be blonde.
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Post by Cheswick on Nov 23, 2017 10:36:21 GMT -5
Elsa Bloodstone Thorn/Rose Canton
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Post by Cheswick on Nov 22, 2017 18:47:53 GMT -5
Remembered a couple more: Merry Pemberton/Girl of 1000 Gimmicks Jezebel Jet
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Post by Cheswick on Nov 22, 2017 10:17:07 GMT -5
I think all four versions of Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman had red hair.
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Post by Cheswick on Nov 22, 2017 10:07:02 GMT -5
A few more: Poison Ivy Siryn Rorschach Artemis Bulleteer
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Post by Cheswick on Nov 22, 2017 10:02:41 GMT -5
Batgirl/Barbara Gordon Batwoman Jason Todd Cinnamon Hawkwoman/Shayera Mercury of the X-Men Lex Luthor started with red hair
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Post by Cheswick on Oct 21, 2017 21:27:20 GMT -5
In recent memory, Scott Snyder's Batman. Heard great things about it from a ton of people, and it turned out to be some of the most convoluted crap I've ever read. That's a great example. I really wanted to like it and actually managed to make it halfway through it. I figured after "Death of the Family", that it couldn't get any worse. Man, was I wrong.
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Post by Cheswick on Oct 18, 2017 18:01:42 GMT -5
Every time they reboot, it's OK to change just about everything. Lex Luthor is a corrupt business man who has managed to evade the law and can even become president. The Penguin is no longer an adventurer-criminal, he's a crime boss masquerading as a night club attendant. The Riddler has become a manipulative psychopathic killer a la Hannibal Lector. Wonder Woman is no longer made of clay, she's the daughter of Zeus. But for some reason, Rita Farr has to be dead in every version of the Doom Patrol. I thought she was alive in John Byrne's 2004 series. She was also alive in Giffen's 2009 series.
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Post by Cheswick on Oct 6, 2017 6:39:34 GMT -5
Catwoman has, in fact, had several backstories. In the '50s, we learned that the Golden Age Selina Kyle had been a flight attendant who developed criminal tendencies after a head injury. Another blow to the head restored her memory and she retired the Catwoman persona. Several decades later, in The Brave and the Bold #97, Alan Brennert and Joe Staton revealed that story was a lie. Selina had actually been an abused spouse who launched her crime career by stealing her own jewels back from her asshole ex-husband. This gave her a taste for larceny and she became The Cat. By the time she first met the Dark Knight in Batman #1, she had achieved international notoriety. This revised origin only pertained to the Earth-Two version, her Earth-One counterpart retaining the original, amnesiac stewardess origin up through the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Post-Crisis, Frank Miller made her a prostitute, a development that still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. What her status is now, or has been in the last thirty years, is outside my field of knowledge. Cei-U! Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! In recent issues of Batman, Tom King has, in a funny way, made reference to the multiple backstories for Catwoman. He had Bruce and Selena debating how they first met, with her making reference to events in Year One, and him recalling events from Batman #1.
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Post by Cheswick on Sept 21, 2017 0:26:33 GMT -5
There are a few names on the list that I don't believe have done enough writing, much less good writing, in the last 25 years to warrant being on the list.
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Post by Cheswick on Sept 19, 2017 12:09:53 GMT -5
None. I never buy based purely on character. I have to at least be familiar with the writer's other work or have heard/read good things about the book. Comics-wise, there's not much worse than a great character written poorly.
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Post by Cheswick on Sept 8, 2017 9:25:17 GMT -5
'Nuff said.
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Post by Cheswick on Aug 31, 2017 23:33:42 GMT -5
Right, my bad, it was Secret Invasion, not Civil War. I accidentally conflated two abysmally godawful crapfests. After so many, it does get hard to keep track.
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Post by Cheswick on Aug 31, 2017 17:43:12 GMT -5
Hank Pym also took on the identity of The Wasp as a tribute to Jan after she was killed in Civil War. Ha! Weird. I... don't think that was Civil War, though? At least the core mini-series. Which I re-read recently. I don't know why either. She "died" at the end of Secret Invasion, but Bendis brought her back towards the end of his run on Avengers.
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Post by Cheswick on Aug 31, 2017 16:46:07 GMT -5
Kitty Pryde was Sprite, then Ariel, then Shadowcat.
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