snap judgments

Oh, good grief. It’s the Spider-Woman issue.

Now, sometimes when customers come up to the front counter with their books on Wednesday and… do that weird thing where they leave you with what they want to buy to look around the store just in case forgetting the two people in line behind them who are ready, I can’t help but flip to the last page sometimes, just to tease myself with what they guys just took out of the Diamond boxes. When I peeked at New Avengers #23, I caught the last line in the book being Spider-Woman’s teary, “I have nowhere else to go!” and thought, why the An Officer and a Gentleman ripoff?

Oh, I didn’t want to read this. I really really didn’t. Thus, the late review. But, a promise is a promise and I swear I’m going to read these disasters so someone else doesn’t have to.

We start with Jessica Drew in her underwear, draped all over her bed, surrounded by Heineken-esque cans, watching the news. The TV reports on recent events in Civil War (pre-Thor arrival) when there’s a knock at the door. Enter Nick Fury who not only found her by her apartment/hotel room registration name ‘Sybil Dvorak’ ( a reference to Gypsy Moth? The hell?), but also wants to know the answer to the Million Dollar Question. They pussy foot the issue for a bit (“Time to pick a side, Jessica.” “What side do you want me on?” “What side do you want to be on?”) When she zaps ol’ Nick since he’s a LMD.

Apparently, she recognized the fact that he didn’t smell right; now, as far as I know, Spider-Woman does not have advanced senses. So this means that when SHIELD rolled out this Life Model Decoy of their former leader to lure in a rogue agent, anyone could have figured out he smelled like an old tire.

Maybe SHIELD didn’t really care about doing this right because the Cape Killers are there in a heartbeat. Maybe this is a really tense situation, maybe Jessica is really drunk, but it looks like sweat is flying off her as they start this really confusing fight sequence that doesn’t show her going down, just suddenly coming to in a secret room on a Hellicarrier. A page and a half of fighting to BOOM! Capture. She seems secured to her chair and I have to give it to her Fruit of the Looms because that is one durable undershirt and panties set. In front of her is a wooden table waxed to a reflective shine so that she can see her reflection in it, Dragon Lady Maria Hill and Hey! It’s Iron Man. Hill congratulates her on being the ‘very first traitor in the very first superhero war’. It seems Iron Man, a little sick of her weird good-bad girl status, ratted her out on being a triple agent. And since Jessica Drew is only working for Nick Fury, who is no longer working for SHIELD it seems, and she accepted this crazy ‘triple agent’ business, Spider-Woman is a traitor.

Otherwise known as her background story is too confusing for Maria Hill to use properly and so she’s out (“Because the paperwork on this… oh my god…”). How could you?, she sniffles to Tony Stark, armed in the Iron Man suit, who admits her shtick is lame and he only liked her because Captain American trusted her. Then the lights go out which just screws everything up on the SHIELD Hellicarrier. Apparently, HYDRA had a EMP pulse saved for a super special occasion and decided saving their rogue agent was that super special time. They bust in on cool hovercycles and clearly announce their intentions to everyone they find along with gun fire. They grab Jessica and try to get the Hellicarrier to crash into New York City, but it doesn’t work because SHIELD comes back on line just in time.

Oh, yeah and the EMP pulse took out Iron Man, too. Because one of the world’s most brilliant scientists wouldn’t have thought to protect himself from something found in your standard book on terrorism. Couldn’t they have at least used some technobabble, maybe made it a phasic-electromagnetic pulse or…. something? Nope! Not as important as Jessica Drew current quandary.

HYDRA takes Jessica to a little tropical hideaway and not only admit that they knew that SHIELD knew that they knew, but they want their triple agent to ‘sit at the head of the table’. That’s secret terrorist talk for ‘take Madame Hydra’s place’. And yes, Madame Hydra wouldn’t take too kindly to this idea but hey! Them’s the breaks, right? This is all explained in a very cramped two pages of very narrow and thin panels showing parts of faces and whatnot that works very well with Michael Avon Oeming, but not with Olivier Coipel. Jessica says no, they have a fight, Jessica wins by throwing lighting around, finding out where HYDRA keeps their fuel reserve on this island and then speeding away on a boat while the island blows sky high behind her.

Apparently, she has done this ‘four or five times’. And HYDRA has never learned not to trust her. She has been captured, broken out and made their base explode FOUR OR FIVE TIMES. They just offered her Viper’s job.

So, cut to a basement or someplace that should have had cookies and punch and maybe a banner that says ‘Hapy Resistance’ and in comes Jessica Drew in a long coat and shades. No one checked her at the door, apparently. No one checked their security and said ‘Hey! It’s Spider-Woman and she’s getting kind of close to our base, maybe we should divert her elsewhere or send someone to find out what she wants’. She asks if she’s in the right place, Captain America gets the stirring line of saying they are going to fight back and Jessica Drew breaks down with a line out of a famous movie.

“Please take me. Please,” she pleads. “I have nowhere else to go.”

Then she cries.

All you need to know? Spider-Woman’s myspace site is very emo and she’s now on Cap’s side. SHIELD and HYDRA are really lazy.

Next week: the Sentry!

At what point did Harlan Ellison, known douchebag and close personal friend of Peter David, think that groping a Hugo Award winner at the recent WorldCon was a-okay?

Why was the responce heard so far that ‘He’s done worse and I can handle him’ from the author who was groped, Connie Willis?

I mean, I have heard stories about this guy and how unapologetic he is for being a real jerk sometimes, but inappropriate touches is… I mean, wow.

This is the Wasp from the Marvel Universe.

This is the Ultimates version of the Wasp.

Definately different people. Same idea, young woman who shrinks to the size of an insect, has wings, attached to scientist-type of poor ability to express himself emotionally (I’m being polite!), but radically different backgrounds. The Ultimates Wasp is Asian-American for one, with a definate Matrix-like style vibe to her.

So when I cracked open the recent Ultimate Fantastic Four and note the rather lackluster appearance by the Ultimates, I note she’s front and center. ‘Hey!’, says I, ‘that’s a pretty nice pictue of her.’ And it is.

It’s just not the Ultimates Wasp. That looks far more like Regular Wasp, and she certainly doesn’t look Asian. This offical Marvel Universe page echoes the costume (though without sleeves), but have I gone mad? Did we lose the Carrie Ann Moss look a few issues of something back and no one told me? Does something happen in the missing last issue of Ultimates 2 where she loses her ethnicity?  Maybe it was an off panel for him where he forgot and she looks the way she had later on in the book.

Is Greg Land lazy?

Well… yeah. To be honest, I can’t stand the man. His art style has turned so photo-specific that I can’t read the book anymore without losing the story because I’m wondering what magazine photo he ripped off this week. And I know I’m not alone.

And sure, it might look like nitpicking but, as Iron Man would say, “Oh come on!” If it’s a small thing, why didn’t the editor notice it and ask for a change? And what in the good Lord’s name is ‘Production’? I go to the front page to see which editor was in charge (John Barber as Associate Editor and Ralph Macchio as Adjectiveless Editor, by the way) and I see ‘Rich Ginter – Production’. That’s new.

So… where does the blame for the art gaff go? Is this just nitpicking or should this have been fixed before it saw print?

So.  Not much going on weekly at the ol’ homestead, eh?

I have recently moved from an apartment to a swanky cabin in the hills (teaching me just how many comics I have and it’s not a pretty number), been taken in by two kittens (B’Elanna and Garak and, why yes, I am a huge nerd.) and… the fine folks at Blog@Newsarama wouldn’t mind if I said a little something about the wide wide world of Marvel on a weekly basis.  That has been a mindblowing offer that puts me with the likes of Graeme McMillan, the guy who ran the first comic blog I ever read, Ragnell and kalinara… heck, Newsarama is where the store manager gets all his info and BAM!  I’m on it!  Kinda.  Family and friends got into the act, helping me name the site ‘The Fifth Color’ and so far, no one’s banned me from the internets.

If things keep going well, I might even pull a ‘Fifth Color Confidential’ to explin why in God’s name I rehashed that old topic and posted it to Newsa-FREKIN’-rama.

So, I’m still here, just going through some growing pains.

Thanks for watching.

The picture of the Scarlet Witch sold me on looking at the New Joe Fridays (Week 9) article at NEWSARAMA, but it once again left a empty feeling in the comic stomach. While there were somethings that Joe did say (mind you, it was all info the rest of NEWSARMA told you in their Wizard World Chicago reports), there was just as much enthusiasm and vigor about what he couldn’t say it’s hard to really separate the two. The man couldn’t even comment on his opinion about the attendance to the con! They didn’t ask for a blow by blow of the numbers here, but it was still artfully dodged.

On:

Loeb/Turner Wolverine Project: Man I wish I could say more about this, but you’ll just have to wait.

Mike Carey Ultimate event: And I shall remain vague for now.

Brian Bendis Ultimate event “Ultimate Invasion”: You’re just going to have to wait and see.

New Thor series: Well, so much more will be clear after Civil War #4.

(And no, I don’t give him this one even though he’s technically right and we should wait until the Civil War thing blows over to see what Thor we get, but come on! Either we’re thinking about it, or we’re not. Something. )

Safe to say that we can see more teenage superheroes and sidekicks, or at least see them play a bigger role?: I’m really jazzed about the idea but you’ll have to wait until Civil War is over. Oh, how the Marvel Universe will change!

Sure, there was some info on basic titles (more than happy to tell you about the free video game tie-in book!) but either word is leaking out too fast, they have too many thing on their plate or…. Joe Quesada is jerking us around and loving it.

And then a new roster of New Avengers in issue #27?: Man, I love when we do the disinformation thing

Ah.

Hawkeye’s return in New Avengers #26?: Hawkeye’s dead, I made sure of that. What in god’s name makes you think he’s alive? Heck, if I see him in Avengers I’m going to have Bendis kill him all over again but not before Speedball gets an arrow between the eyes in Frontline.

Sometimes, I think hanging out with fans gets him a little cranky, but that’s just me. I understand his job’s a hard one and that it’s rather cool of him to talk to people like NEWSARAMA and get some insider info on what’s going on at Marvel but, it’s just the amount of info we’re given.

If you’re not ready, Marvel, don’t talk about it. Just saying ‘We don’t have anything ready to say on that yet.’ instead the same old ‘You’re just going to have to wait and see.’ seems like semantics I know, but even a little change in context is good for the soul. Something that sounds less like your mother talking about what you’re getting for Christmas and more statement on what the office can say.

I used to tune in with some regularity to the Cup o’ Joe, but it’s unsatisfying.

Guess I’m going to have to wait and see.

I think the current issues of Iron Man were supposed to come out while Secret War was being published.  It would explain a little while Nick Fury’s hanging around, no Civil War stuff is mentioned and why the government might have some trust in Iron Man after this weird little manslaughter rampage…

Which makes me wonder: how many other books at Marvel are temporally displaced?  Just Iron Man or is Daredevil a little shaken as well?  I do remember, back in the day, when JOe Quesada promised Kevin Smith he would get to write the next Daredevil-Bullseye story and that rather cramped Bendis’s style on a few issues, but… well, it’s hard for me to se anything amiss over at DD since Brubaker is really bringing the book together.

I could be wrong.

Sadly, these were supposed to be posted on Tuesday, as they were mostly preiview books, but due to some illness, I have been unable to come to the computer and type up my notes. Dental work is the pits, let me tell you, people, so these are probably a little less informative, a little more snarky than the norm. Ah well, better late than never, right?

52 #13

Not a preview book, I know, but I just have to say that that is some messed up stuff right there. Poor poor Ralph Dibney, man. The little mini-history in the back reminded me of how much fun Ralph and Sue used to be, too. Huh. But seeing a collection of people who are more than familiar with death and rebirth, so to speak, was a conversation I would have liked to have seen more of, but it makes sense that there aren’t really any answers for how it all works. It’s something we struggle with in our lives, what lies beyond death, how we can remain in contact with what we lose, good stuff. Still… I sure wouldn’t want to be Ralph Dibney, that’s for sure.

She-Hulk #10

And I quote, “Shocking reveals! Shocking revelations! A big green chick in tight fitting clothing! That’s what She-Hulk is all about, kids – that and literally mauling sensitive guys suffering from unrequited love.” That kind of thing makes me wonder if I really am the target audience for the book. I read it and recommend it as a very strong female character in the Marvel Universe who doesn’t *have* to run around in tight fitting clothing to make a difference, someone who’s trying to come to terms with her own fears and insecurities along with saving the world and standing up for justice in the most literal way possible. I use it as an example that all superheroes aren’t millionaire playboys or lost aliens, that sometimes they don’t separate the job from the heroism. She-Hulk is an awesome book and I have handed it over as a recommendation with pride to customers looking for something different in the genre that’s still recognizable as heroic… I’m probably over thinking things, but if that’s editor’s call, it sure as hell explains the Greg Horn covers.
Anyway, back to the issue. Here we get to see a little of the footwork of the Superhero Registration Act more than just a bunch of posturing and speeches as She-Hulk, hubby John Jameson and the Two-Gun Kid track down heroes catching low level villains. Hey, I’m happy to see a good ol’ fashioned crime as well as some of the details being shown of a company-wide event. Apparently, this issue also lets us know that the Starfox trial was a distraction from something HYDRA is doing (he’s going to have to go back to that after all this Civil War stuff is over, just so we’re clear on whether Starfox has taken advantage of our Shulkie or not. I know this makes it seem like the testimonies were trumped up a bit and things might not be as bad as it seemed, but there is the main character to think of) and finally, after issues of waiting, Pug finally confronts the very freaky and sudden marriage of Man-Wolf and She-Hulk. Oh, and there’s a revelation I can’t figure out at the end of the book that ties into the first ‘season’ issues. I trust Mr. Slott and anxiously await all this making sense.

New X-Men #29

Oh! The threat to kill Storm last issue was actually in reference to an alternate reality Storm! Not the recently married to Black Panther one, but another Storm that’s got a kid with Forge in another universe. Wow. This puts this universe’s Forge in danger from the Days of Future Past uber-Sentinel Nimrod who’s working events to get back to his proper programming of destroying all mutants. Forge tries to stall out his ‘help’ to Nimrod while trying to get ahold of his friends, the X-Men, to come and stop the robot. They don’t get the call, since they all went to Storm’s wedding, but the New X-Men get the message through Surge’s gauntlets, made for her by Forge himself. In a page right out of the first New Mutants handbook, they actually steal the Blackbird to try and help him out. I love it. David Alleyne, the depowered Prodigy, still knows how to fly the Blackbird from his mutant days and puts on protective gear while name dropping Doug Ramsey. I don’t know who’s teaching this kids right now, but they are doing a pretty good job. Sure, this whole thing with Forge is a trap, but these guys might live through this. Might. Oh, in case anyone was wondering, the Sentinels actually missed their escape (in a big plane) but do note the lack of bodies on a scan. “Sentinels so fired”, indeed.

Wolverine: Origin #5

I honestly shouldn’t have opened the book. The cover is just too damned pretty. And this story is too damned lame. Guess what everyone? Wolverine has a son! By Silver Fox! And he’s been brainwashed to kill and hate his father. And all of this is brand new as of this issue. No lead up, no hints, just BAM! You gotta kid and will probably have to kill him or he will kill you. Oh no. Finally, Wolverine’s magic sword comes into reasonable play as we’re told it’s the only weapon that can kill Logan as he puts in the hands of Cyclops for use ‘when the time comes’. I would have stabbed him right then and there, but that’s because this book isn’t doing a thing for me. There is, however, a nice list of reference books on what this issue is talking about.

Annihilation #1

Ah, war. A massive enemy looking to wipe out civilizations and our heroes fighting the good fight to stop them. Framed well by the past books, Annihilation #1 is nice enough to keep giving you a little update on the players and where they stand, since… well, I didn’t read the Ronan mini. It was the Rann-Thanagarr of the bunch and I got all the info I needed from the others. This is a an awesome space drama and if you have any need to see good broad strokes of good and evil and power, pick it up. Yes! I know you didn’t read the Prologue or all of the minis but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a #1 issue of a fine story. And if you want to go back, please do. Just don’t feel obligated before you give the book a try.

Squadron Supreme #6

I have to admit, I liked the first few issues of Supreme Power when it came out, I thought it was kind of cheeky and interesting but… I think I have officially reached my limit on ‘realistic superheroes’. I officially, as of this day forth, don’t need to see how evil my government is or how nasty, brutish and short heroes are at heart. There comes a time when all of this ‘but it’s more REAL this way’ just turns into parody and not only skips the realism but loses a lot of the integrity as well. But I think that’s a rant for another time. On to #6, because I never expected it to get this far. I thought it was going to be just that Supreme Power thing, but now it looks like we have Ultimates v.2, JLA style. Now, I like Nighthawk’s conundrum regarding how he should g about his business and I like his style of crime fighting and what he’s trying to accomplish. I think the scene between him and Blur is really important, but the rest of the book is so dressed up in stereotypes it’s hard to look at it with the right amount of respect. Oh, look, the fat character reads comics, ha ha. All the government people have wheels within wheels and sneaky ulterior motives. It makes you wait for the other shoe to drop in the more serious moments and to find out that the character you thought was cool molests children because that’s edgy these days.

Incredible Hulk #97

Hulk continues to run his rebel corp without really wanting to. The People in Charge are now doubly threatened by him as not only might he be this ‘Greenskaar’ character but perhaps the true and rightful Emperor. This ticks said Emperor off and forces him to call in Mara Jade, his right hand woman in from the field to go deal with this directly. Remember the cute buggy guy who found his people under a rock a few issues ago? Well, he wants to be in charge now and has mutated to something Hulk can smash. All in all, not much Hulk for your buck. The book continues to have too many supporting characters and not enough motivation for the Hulk to really do much of anything besides wait for the next thing to smash. I will give it that over Bruce Jones’s run, there is some fine battling to be done, I just want a teeny more motivation. Maybe an all Hulk issue. The man’s name is on the cover.

Beyond #2

Medusa must have been this artist’s dream. Or nightmare. Hard to tell to tell but he sure does love using that hair. As we saw last issue, Venom is going to taste some regal vengeance from the Atillan queen for killing Spider-Man. She declares some sovereign right to whip the unholy heck out of him, which the sonic booms from the force of her cracks actually cause the symbiote great harm. The Avengers, Wasp and Hank Pym (who I still says looks straight out of the West Coast Avengers days) take the moral high ground and want to put Venom on trial or something as ridiculous. Venom escapes his whippy fate, blows a hole in the engine of their spaceship and crashes them a little early on Warworld Battleworld. A mystery man shows up and tries to get them to play along with the whole theme of the book but again, Wasp and Pym have better (read: wrong) ideas. They wind up being attacked and then Deathlok has to go save their butts. Also, dead Spider-Man wakes up. And no, he’s not a zombie.

Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four #15

Ah! Wonderful! Straight forward bad guy! Teamwork through hardship! A moral lesson with action and adventure, good stuff. Again, I repeat: the Marvel Adventures line is a great way to relax after a hard day of schoolchildren murders, government stoolies and Spider-Man getting his life torn into confetti pieces. The Fantastic Four fights Terminus and teach us that you can make a difference, no matter how small you are. An all ages book to be sure.

Alright, this is mostly for me, but I wasn’t able to go to Comic Con this year, a big terrible disappointment with bad scheduling and all the horrors of trying to find a hotel room you can come up with.

But no.  No tears.  I held my chin up high and picked lentils out of the fireplace like a good Cinderella, knowing that next year, oh next year, I’ll do it right.

Little did I know it was Wizard World Chicago I should have gone to anyway.  TWO PANELS, one from Paul Jenkins and another from Peter David, on comic book writing. TWO!  From those two even!  Throw Gail Simone in there and I’d have to invent a time machine.

Ah well.  Next year.  *sob*

What happened? Where did everything go wrong, Northstar?

It wasn’t when he came out to his country and his team, believe it or not. The whole comic was rather seminal (despite being really badly drawn) and well accepted by the public, if a little forgotten as of late. He left the team and wrote a book, not the first in the Marvel Universe to do so (Rick Jones’s Sidekick, Betty Banner’s Fields of Green, and Kitty Pryde’s … I know she wrote something, didn’t she?) and did a book tour to talk about his life as a mutant and homosexual. So, Northstar had to come out previously on his being a mutant and competing in the Olympics and then had to come out about his sexual preference. Man’s got some serious courage.

Jean Grey shows up at a book signing and asks him to come help the X-Men out and save Xavier. Remeber when they used to do that? Yeah. End of the day, they ask him to stay and, seeing the opportunity to mentor awkward kids like he used to be and remembering all the help Raymonde Belmonde provided to him, he took a job as a teacher. This is great. He’s an X-Man now, rubbing around in shades and an modified uniform (the original is rather stylish), and was a rather high profile guy.

Chuck Austen did a lot of things in his run that a bunch of people never really enjoyed (myself included as he tore down a lot of the building up of Lorna Dane that had come before), but he managed to treat Northstar fairly decently. He had a crush on Bobby Drake, leading to internet fangirl squeeing of epic proportions, but it didn’t immediately make Bobby gay or Northstar something pervvy. He became a good friend to Austen’s Single Mom of the Week, became a counselor over on New X-Men: Academy X and it seemed like an openly gay character was getting some good panel time in a Marvel Comic.

Then Wolverine went nuts thanks to HYDRA and went to the X-Mansion. While the team and teachers were out looking for him, the berserker attempted to stab Kitty Pryde who phased out of the way. Not so much for Northstar, who took the shot in the gut, impaling him on a tree, and died. A punk way to go, but the start of things to come for the New X-Men.

Boy do I wish it ended there. So, apparently Elixir managed to heal Northstar’s wounds but could not revive him. Since I don’t have the issue and am going on second hand info, I’m going to assume this means that he’s not in a coma, but really dead without puncture wounds. Because, you have to understand, SHIELD wanted to decapitate him. SHIELD showed up because of the Wolverine Thing(tm) and I guess thought it their business to tell the X-Men what to do with their dead. The X-Men say no, we’d rather contact his family (so, what…. Aurora? Raymonde? I don’t think he really talked to the Martins all that much…) and then Electra shows up and steals the body for HYDRA.

Man can not catch a break.

HYDRA does the same brainwashing technique they used on Wolverine (see previous stabbing) and make him one of their new assassins. And give him some Harajuku kids too; it worked for Gwen Stefani. He runs around and targets a bunch of close-minded homophobes for terrible death. He tells Wolverine that he had to take pills because he was so miserable teaching at Xavier’s. Then he tells one of his new minions to put on some music to make him feel ‘mad and nasty’. Thankfully, after an obscene amount of monologing villainy from Northstar, Wolverine punches him out.

From here, SHIELD comes back and probably does an I Told You So about that decapitating thing. Though Nick Fury himself tells Kitty Pryde he has no idea what happened to Northstar, they apparently had him in a deprogramming thingamabob in the last issue of Mike Carey’s X-Men. Wolverine’s mind is a CDR apparently, while Northstar is a little harder to deprogram, requiring complicated headsets and weird mental landscaping. A brand new Evil Group has sprung him out and are reprogramming him for more evil.

At least he has his sister back.

For one brief shining moment, Northstar was a prominent member of the X-Men, one of the most high-profile superteams in comics. He was openly gay, but it wasn’t his entire personality. He came from a lot of heavy situations and was stronger for them. He was a good role model for kids.

And now he’s being used..

Well, let’s see where this goes.

Best case scenario:

Black Panther has kept himself from officially joining groups as of late. I don’t think he’s an active member of the Avengers (New ones aside), he turned the Illuminati down (let’s pretent that was because he couldn’t get involved in something greater than his duty to his country instead of the fact that it was flawed at the start) and has so far stayed the course for his nation and his kingly duties. Kingly duties like taking a Queen who is smart, drop dead gorgeous and incredibly powerful (yeah, it’s good to be the King). Not only has he provided an incredible mother to the future heir to his throne, but he had provided a secure and strong joint leadership. Sure, his mom could still be in charge, it could be a weird monarchy, but let’s just go with the standard.

Wakanda now has a strong united leadership, really kind of making it the most awesome place on the planet (at least the way the Previously in front of the book makes it seem). If Black Panther doesn’t go out and run around and adventure and fight evil then he is one paranoid man on the planet. And if the title of the book stays the same and it avoids the ‘And Storm’ cliche, there’s not much to do with the little woman besides leave her at home.

To rule one of the most powerful countries on Earth. We’re not talking barefoot in the kitchen, we’re talking being Queen. And keep in mind that they have been fully acknowledging the fact that there are some people in Africa that still worship Ororo as a goddess. A GODDESS. She is the Queen of Wakanda now and the goddess of her own religion. Who’s to say those faithful won’t form a pilgrimage to Wakanda and want to see their living goddess? They could either be accepted into the country as citizens or, most likely to avoid an imbalance of power, let them set up camp outside and not officially acknowledge them.

Or maybe they could make it a rotating thing of people coming to witness the new goddess-queen and taking back word of her wealth, beauty and power (not to mention all the adventuring she did pre-wedding in Uncanny X-Men).  She could become this huge figure of myth and legend, the likes of which history hasn’t seen in years!

LONG LIVE QUEEN ORORO!