Answered Prayers

[colonel_green]

Three scans from Avengers vs. Atlas #3.


Each of these issues has two stories, and, much like the backup in Fall of an Avenger this week, the one here isn't done by Jeff Parker, but by Paul Cornell, with art by Leonard Kirk.  Our jokey premise is Venus, now Goddess of Love, is giving out romantic advice.  One letter:




The song causes someone in the audience to faint.  After recovery ("It'll take him a few minutes to get used to walking like that.), she resumes her job:




Yeah, I'm starting to wonder whether Aphrodite wasn't better-suited to this job.

 
char: venus, char: she-hulk/jennifer walters, char: hulk/bruce banner, char: jocasta, creator: paul cornell, creator: leonard kirk, publisher: marvel comics

Comments

[proteus_lives]

"If a woman wants to change you--let her. You'll only end up better."


.....What utter, sexist bullshit.

[colonel_green]

That, obviously, being the joke. Her advice isn't very good.

[psychopathicus_rex]

In that particular case, I think it's more like she's perplexed enough by Hulk's letter that she decides to just throw something random out there so that she can get on with things.

[icon_uk]

Of course it is, that's the point.

[jlroberson]

There was a woman who wanted to change me. She succeeded. Then she left what she'd made, because she no longer found it interesting.

So...no.

[neuhallidae]

Oh, Venus, honey, stick to stopping battlefield melees.

[shadowpsykie]

i chuckled at the Hulk thing....

[punishermax]

HULK LOOKING FOR NICE GIRL TO LOVE.

HULK GOING TO MEET GIRL ONLINE.

HULK COME TO HOUSE. WHO IS MAN?

NO, HULK NOT WANT TAKE SEAT !

HULK RUN FROM PUNSY HANSEN!

NO HULK HIT WITH PEPPER SPRAY! HULK JUST WANT TO MEET GIRL! HULK NOT WANT ANYTHING ELSE

[jcbaggee]

Oh man. Winning sweeps episode of the year, for all years.

[morgana006]

Hulk just won an internet.

[selke]

I just choked on a Red Vine.

[flidgetjerome]

. . . Has there been any reaction yet from Machine Man as to who Jocasta's dumped him for? Because that really, really needs to happen.

[cainofdreaming]

It'll probably go along the lines of...

Machine Man: *goes to get a keg* *opens the top of his head* *pours the contents of the aforementioned keg in*

[kirke_novak]

Finally! The secret behind Osborn's atrocious haircut revealed!

[pyrotwilight]

Oh Venus, you so lullzy but being in a family dominated by women the "You'll only end up better" thing frightens me to see printed.

Miss Dean, took me a minute to realize that was Karolina Dean/Lucy in the Sky from Runaways. Haha.

[jlroberson]

Well, it's just proof that mainstream comics writers' ignorance of actual male/female relationship swings both ways, not just in resentment of women. Worship is not better. Something in between, that's what grown-ups do.

[colonel_green]

Why exactly do you think her statement is meant to be taken seriously?

[jlroberson]

I don't know that it is or isn't. But many would, I can see that much.

[phosfate]

CAN YOU NOT SEE THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS COMIC???

[tzipwich]

The Kitty one makes me laugh.

[halloweenjack]

You know how some comic artists supposedly draw the figure naked first, then erase the naughty bits and draw the costume in? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that that's what happened here, except not fully completing the erasing part.

Sold.

[colonel_green]

It's only with Venus, so I assume that's deliberate.

[kingrockwell]

Oh, Cornell/Kirk. I already miss Dark X-Men.
should start tracking down MI:13 trades i think

[ghosty732]

I missed where Venus takes over the reigns for Aphrodite. Can somebody post it? I'm not even sure which issue that was (so I have no idea if it's even possible for someone to post it, given the page counts).

[colonel_green]

It was in the backup in #141. I think it can be posted, but I don't have the issue with me now (it's back in my parents' house).

[psychopathicus_rex]

Oh, Venus. I do love you so. Even when you're being snarky and inadvertently ruining people's love lives, you're so NICE.