"This Female Fights Back!"

[kore]

Fans React to Captain Marvel’s Radical Feminist Identity Politics – From 1977

This Bleeding Cool (yeah I know) listicle....thing (can't really call it an article) is a really interesting compilation from letters from the comic's letters column, "Ms Prints" (ho ho). Quite a lot of quotes from women, including women fans, women in comics and women who would go on to work in comics.

And a nugget from CBR:

In The Superhero Women (a 1977 Fireside Books collection of stories featuring female superheroes), Stan Lee spoke about the impetus for creating Ms. Marvel:

It bothered me for years that we didn't have one particular super heroine. Sure, we had Red Sonja, but I wanted a female superstar who would exist in the present, the real world. I kicked the idea around with Roy Thomas. We came up with the name Ms. Marvel, for two reasons: One, I wanted to use the word Marvel if possible simply because it's the name of our gregarious group of titles; and, two, it seemed the the word "Ms." totally represented the new, liberated, upbeat spirit that we wanted the strip to represent.

Character Arc Discussion

[lynnenne]

Hello, and welcome to your weekly Sunday discussion post!

This week's topic grows out of a conversation thread with several other community members, about Thor's character arc in Ragnarok.

( Spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War )

What do you think of this development in IW? Does it invalidate Thor's arc in Ragnarok? Or do you have a different take on it? What's your interpretation of Thor's journey, in either film? And what would you most like to see for him in Endgame?

GotG2 meta from 2017

[sholio]

There's a squee/meta post I made on Tumblr back when I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 in the theater for the second time, back in 2017, that's been getting some new notes lately, so I was rereading it tonight and thinking that people here at the comm might like to read it for general squee/fun/nostalgia. It makes an interesting time capsule, since some of these observations were talked about quite a bit in the fandom later on (and in fact I had forgotten that I didn't pick up on them on the first watch - some things you can't really notice until you know where the movie is going) but were totally new to me at the time. I also think some of my feelings about the movie have evolved somewhat since then, but it's interesting to go back and reread this from when it was all fresh and new!

( Coming to you from the far-off year of 2017 )