Comments on: MyCup o’ Joe Week 49 & 50

By: Mr_Hellfire

Mr_Hellfire — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:47:36 +0000

This complaint is frequent and no one’s getting it: Yes, you’ve got your examples of women who are still around but they aren’t doing shit or aren’t shit next to the women that came before them.

Do we even count Emma right now? Seriously, how horrible it must be to go from an intelligent and complex X-Man to Co-Headmistress with an edge to this horrible “caring” woman who is not Emma Frost. I’ve heard so many bad arguments as to why she can “lighten up” now, but no one gets that she was happy at times in New X-Men she just expressed differently and it usually came off a bit wrong but that was the point. She’s the X-Man who contradicts the whole “good and fluffy and pure” theme and she does it better than X-Force and Wolverine and “badass” Cyclops ever will.

By: NB

NB — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:16 +0000

I think you’re a bit unfair to Mr Quesada here. All of those he mentioned are (or will soon be) a main character in their respective title.

New Mutants will soon be restarted and Elektra currently has a five issue mini ongoing.

Rogue will probably get the focus in Legacy very soon.

Carol might have died (for now), but we got the lovely Moonstone instead. Net win in my opinion. :)

By: Anthonyh

Anthonyh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:50:46 +0000

@Aimee - watever dont listen to what they say to be quite honest I enjoy just having two main females Emma and Storm and that is it, though i wouldnt mind if Jean came back and joined or even rogue or kitty

By: Aimee

Aimee — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:45:17 +0000

I’ll reserve my comments for the comment section, instead of posting my opinion on the actual article for now on. :)

As for the lack of female characters in the Marvel Universe, I totally agree. Even though Emma Frost is my favorite character, I can’t help feel that other female characters have been pushed off the boat.

Quesada’s list of female characters is bogus. He’s basically listing all of the active female X-Men characters, and most of them do not have anything going for them:

Layla Miller got shipped off into an alternative universe.

Karma is idle in Uncanny X-Men.

Wolfsbane is lost with the Wolf Prince in X-Force.

Rogue is finding herself – yet again.

Pixie and Armor are nothing but pathetic replacements for Kitty Pryde, who grew up long before Astonishing X-Men came around.

I don’t know what’s going on with Elektra, currently. But the last time I saw her, she appeared as a Skrull and wasn’t seen for 8 months.

Oh, and let’s not forget what happened to Kitty Pryde, what currently happened to Boom Boom, and what will happen to Carol Danvers.