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Man, is it just me or is Firestar's costume looking really boring lately?

I'm feelin' the rage building around this, although I'm not feeling it for myself. One because my heart has hardened into a black rock of cynicism, but two because I feel like this has been something that's been passed around the Marvel Comics HQ for awhile and it's finally come to fruition just because it's BEEN THERE for awhile. I remember

papajoemambo suggesting to me that this was an idea they had, although I thought it turned into Alias. I'm guessing they've just gotten stuck on it and want to see it done through hell or highwater, just because it's there. That's probably why the Watchmen movie got made.

But why now, really? I mean, Sex and the City has been off the air for five years now. Combining it with superheroes has already been done and didn't their last sexy girls book with the Black Cat and an underused African-American heroine not do so well and was not helped because Marvel kind of showed it didn't really give a shit what the female audience thought.

I don't know. I kind of say what I've said when I read the horrible Mary Jane novel and the I-remain-unimpressed by it Mary Jane/Mary Jane: Homecoming/Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane series: if I wanted to read romance I would read romance. I mean, I don't think I would love Sex and the City but I figure they know what they're doing.

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Well, the Tigra thing I never read. He said it was meant to be shocking, not titillating. Others saw it differently. So for now I have no opinion on it other than his reaction to the controversy was rather dismissive and I didn't appreciate it.

In terms of women, I do like that he revived a lot of women who people were doing near-nothing with, like the Spider-Women. And while Busiek was the one who originally brought Carol Danvers back from space purgatory, he's made her into a major player in the Marvel Universe and his protegee wrote her. I also really think Jessica Jones was a great addition. I know for some that may not excuse Tigra or Scarlet Witch, but I don't know. Ms. Marvel is one of my favorites ever (she was even my old screenname) so that means a lot to me. (And I have no problem with her being on the wrong side in Civil War, but that's another story.)

It honestly feels like another stupid, tired attempt at Heroes for Hire, which I WAS going to collect, since it had Misty Knight and Colleen but the stupid cheesecake in nearly every other frame turned me off of it bigtime.

I'm getting that vibe, too. And you know what was weird about that book, now that I think of it: no conflict. None of the characters had any personality clashes that I remember other than "Oooh, Black Tarantula [or whatever] is kind of brutal. Oh well, let's move this plot along." I'm worried this is going to do the same thing. I mean, there are good ways to do this concept ... I'm just not sure they're going to utilize them.