![]() ![]() She was always trying to make quips and be funny, but I don’t remember almost anyone in my audience laughing. In the Captain’s case, her personality remained virtually static despite memory loss, brainwashing, and eventual triumph. ![]() Captain Marvel had a lot of this in mind. Essentially, Carol Danvers explicitly challenges who she is told to be versus who she wants to be and even tells a former mentor, “I have nothing to prove to you.” These ideas are great, but crafting the story around them can be dicey. These days, lots of us enjoy a story about empowerment, victims becoming their own heroes especially. While the story is certainly fitting, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. In Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale, written by Lauren Myracle and illustrated by Isaac Goodhart, young Selina Kyle cultivates her own self-reliance as an only child to a neglectful mother and belligerent, abusive step-father. Either way, I don’t think anyone would assume Catwoman had a past full of sunshine and parental nurturing. Did anyone in Gotham have a happy childhood? Probably not. ![]()
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