Comments on: That Girl! http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/ no, really, there are some comics you really should read Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:25:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-141731 admin Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:42:25 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/#comment-141731 Amen, Darci! I like how both Greer and Patsy use that (rather garrish) yellow-and-blue costume to reinvent themselves from what people think of them to who they want to be (Greer from someone who needs to be taken care of to a superheroine in her own right and Patsy from Romance teeny bopper to supernatural daredevil). Here's to hoping. Amen, Darci! I like how both Greer and Patsy use that (rather garrish) yellow-and-blue costume to reinvent themselves from what people think of them to who they want to be (Greer from someone who needs to be taken care of to a superheroine in her own right and Patsy from Romance teeny bopper to supernatural daredevil).
Here’s to hoping.

]]> By: Darci http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-140141 Darci Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:38:51 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/#comment-140141 A poll (see http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003043 ) in 2004 asked Marvel readers to choose the next character to be revised and appear in Amazing Fantasy. The choices were the Cat, Werewolf by Night, Kraven, and the Scorpion. (The Scorpion won, becoming Carmilla Black.) I voted for the Cat, and expressed the hope that someone would revive Dr. Tumulo's project and create a new superheroine (or perhaps a bunch of them. After all, Malcolm Donalbain planned to have hundreds and had already ordered dozens of the Cat uniforms). We did learn what happened to one of the uniforms. In Avengers #144 (Feb 1976), after the rest of the Marvel staff had given up on the Cat and used Greer Nelson to create Tigra, Steve Englehart had Patsy Walker (one-time romance comic star) chance upon a costume that resembled the Cat's. She and the Avengers she was accompanying recalled the heroine, and Patsy decided to use the costume to become Hellcat. That character, too, has seen its ups and downs since. I'm with you. Bring back the Cat! A poll (see http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003043 ) in 2004 asked Marvel readers to choose the next character to be revised and appear in Amazing Fantasy. The choices were the Cat, Werewolf by Night, Kraven, and the Scorpion. (The Scorpion won, becoming Carmilla Black.) I voted for the Cat, and expressed the hope that someone would revive Dr. Tumulo’s project and create a new superheroine (or perhaps a bunch of them. After all, Malcolm Donalbain planned to have hundreds and had already ordered dozens of the Cat uniforms).
We did learn what happened to one of the uniforms. In Avengers #144 (Feb 1976), after the rest of the Marvel staff had given up on the Cat and used Greer Nelson to create Tigra, Steve Englehart had Patsy Walker (one-time romance comic star) chance upon a costume that resembled the Cat’s. She and the Avengers she was accompanying recalled the heroine, and Patsy decided to use the costume to become Hellcat. That character, too, has seen its ups and downs since.
I’m with you. Bring back the Cat!

]]> By: admin http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-135460 admin Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:45:06 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/#comment-135460 GOD BLESS YOU KEEPER! Yeah, I haven't read the Marvel Icons mini with her apparently going into the police force in honor of ol' Bill Nelson, so I was a little iffy about mentioning it. Maybe someday, someone will read those old issues and wonder if they could make that character work today... GOD BLESS YOU KEEPER!

Yeah, I haven’t read the Marvel Icons mini with her apparently going into the police force in honor of ol’ Bill Nelson, so I was a little iffy about mentioning it.
Maybe someday, someone will read those old issues and wonder if they could make that character work today…

]]> By: Fortress Keeper http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-135451 Fortress Keeper Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:17:23 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2007/10/03/that-girl/#comment-135451 I love The Cat! And I totally agree with you. The original Cat was a completely different character from the duplicitous sex kitten Tigra has turned into. Although I did kinda like that mini where Tigra was a police officer, even if it did skip over her dead husband's piggish tendencies. I love The Cat!

And I totally agree with you. The original Cat was a completely different character from the duplicitous sex kitten Tigra has turned into.

Although I did kinda like that mini where Tigra was a police officer, even if it did skip over her dead husband’s piggish tendencies.

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