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eumeliaMy brother had a birthday last week and I decided to kill two birds with one stone and go to the local (all the way in Tel-Aviv) comic-book store and buy him a graphic novel - Hellblazer: Original Sin - while I finally get around to reading the new "White Tiger" which had been hyped up and written about all over the blogosphere (there were so many posts about it on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
fangirls_attack that I had to conciously avoid reading it in order to avoid spoilers).
So I bought the first three issues of the first arc of the new "White Tiger" and thought... okay good introduction to a person outside of Marvel and who has not been following "Civil War".
When I first saw Angela Del Toro on the first page looking like a cat burglar I thought... are they trying to make a Latina Catwoman?
But as you read on, you find out that like most of Marvel's reluctant heroes - and in the case of Angela it is quite apparent, since she comes from a family of everyday heroes (cops, FBI agents, etc.) that she wouldn't be quite as happy to bear the mantle and responsibility that comes from being a heroine with a secret identity, a secret identity which it seems all her allies are able to figure out with ease, seeing as she is continuing the legacy of her uncle Hector Ayala (the original White Tiger) whom everyone seemed to know.
I must say that I get the hype, it's really very, very cool that a mainstream, Marvel Superheroine is being written by a woman (actually the team of Tamora Pierce & Timothy Liebe) and that makes the pop-culture loving feminist in me go *squee*, but I wonder if there was too much hype built in on this, maybe I'm just a little jaded, but advertising a new arc by saying it was written by a woman... eh, I dunno, it squicks me a little.
But it really is very well written and the art is excellent.
I mean, Angela has muscles!
She talks about the tightness of her (very awesome) costume and and how it feels while she wears it, I gotta say it was a very nice touch, it adds some true humanity to her, because her powers, unlike mutants or Spiderman, aren't internal, they aren't a part of who she is, but they are magical, and I suspect that they demand a certain amount of control since she is essentially inviting animalistic qualities into her already fiery (and somewhat cliched's "Angry-Hard-Done-By-Had-To-Fight-Tooth-And-Nail-To-Get-Where-I-Am personality... of course, I've only just met Angela, I could be wrong :)
The action sequences were classic comic book, extra-high kicks, gnashing teeth, glowing pupil-less eyes and the lovely crash and burn of the end of the fight while the inky dust settles over all the henchman the heroine kicked ass.
More "White Tiger" in posts to come.
fangirls_attack that I had to conciously avoid reading it in order to avoid spoilers).So I bought the first three issues of the first arc of the new "White Tiger" and thought... okay good introduction to a person outside of Marvel and who has not been following "Civil War".
When I first saw Angela Del Toro on the first page looking like a cat burglar I thought... are they trying to make a Latina Catwoman?
But as you read on, you find out that like most of Marvel's reluctant heroes - and in the case of Angela it is quite apparent, since she comes from a family of everyday heroes (cops, FBI agents, etc.) that she wouldn't be quite as happy to bear the mantle and responsibility that comes from being a heroine with a secret identity, a secret identity which it seems all her allies are able to figure out with ease, seeing as she is continuing the legacy of her uncle Hector Ayala (the original White Tiger) whom everyone seemed to know.
I must say that I get the hype, it's really very, very cool that a mainstream, Marvel Superheroine is being written by a woman (actually the team of Tamora Pierce & Timothy Liebe) and that makes the pop-culture loving feminist in me go *squee*, but I wonder if there was too much hype built in on this, maybe I'm just a little jaded, but advertising a new arc by saying it was written by a woman... eh, I dunno, it squicks me a little.
But it really is very well written and the art is excellent.
I mean, Angela has muscles!
She talks about the tightness of her (very awesome) costume and and how it feels while she wears it, I gotta say it was a very nice touch, it adds some true humanity to her, because her powers, unlike mutants or Spiderman, aren't internal, they aren't a part of who she is, but they are magical, and I suspect that they demand a certain amount of control since she is essentially inviting animalistic qualities into her already fiery (and somewhat cliched's "Angry-Hard-Done-By-Had-To-Fight-Tooth-And-Nail-To-Get-Where-I-Am personality... of course, I've only just met Angela, I could be wrong :)
The action sequences were classic comic book, extra-high kicks, gnashing teeth, glowing pupil-less eyes and the lovely crash and burn of the end of the fight while the inky dust settles over all the henchman the heroine kicked ass.
More "White Tiger" in posts to come.
