We're Like, Team Lady Spiders

[redbrunja]

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE 21 WAS AMAZING AND EVERYTHING I DREAM OF COMICS BEING. IT'S JESS, NATASHA, AND ANYA TEAMING UP AND KICKING ASS AND IT'S ONE OF THOSE ISSUES WHERE YOU COUNT INTERACTIONS THAT DON'T PASS THE BECHDEL TEST, NOT THE ONES WHO DO, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS IT A SUPERHEROINE TEAM-UP ISSUE, IT IS AN ISSUE WITH DRIVEN, EVIL LADY SCIENTISTS AND EVIL DIMENSION-JUMPING LADY MERCENARIES.

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is the way the writers and the fans seem to think it's SO MATURE AND WELL WRITTEN YO.

Yep. I think working with themes of hope and humor can often be HARDER to write in a believable way.

Then you have Avengers Assemble and Hawkeye, which embrace the genre while at the same time breaking conventions and writing good character development.

*nods* And it's not like those don't have their moments of sorrow, but they remember the joy of comics that I think some writers forget or try to ignore.