Why You Should Read the New Spider-Woman
The hope of the new Spider-Woman series.
The hope of the new Spider-Woman series.
X-Men’s record of including women is still only good in relation to the rest of superhero comics.
The first major story arc in DeConnick’s series is an attempt to write Ms./Captain Marvel into a revisionist feminist text – a laudable attempt to make manifest the purported feminist subtext of the character.
More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.
Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.