Flirting on Tabula Rasa

[salinea]

Previously in Avengers vs X-Men, Hope's signature has been located in five different places, courtesy of Rachel Summers, and both the Avengers and the X-Men are sending a team to the coordinates. One of them is Tabula Rasa (aka the Savage Land-like recently created thanks to Appocangel getting his hands on The World).


I think Sunspot is angling for a threesome.





Meanwhile, our friend the Savage/Good Apex has been observing the proceeding and narrating it, as someone who is very clueless about Earth people and tries to study them as those strange, hapless, puny creatures.







I think we should make the Good Apex a honorary member of scans_daily.

Comments

[greenmask]

Didn't Hepzibah used to have I am an alien who speaks my alien language, earth-English is a second and strange tongue-style speech patterns?

It's a tricky thing to say without sounding like a sex-judger, but having her relationship & sexual status change from "unavailable; in monogamous relationship" to "arranging sex-dates in front of the whole team" feels like "hot [skunt] catgirls should feel sexually available to me, the viewer" and I don't like it.

[salinea]

It's a tricky thing to say without sounding like a sex-judger
Hmmm. The emphasis is on the objectification of Namor, not herself; and it comes across more as flirting (which may or may not have a real intent behind it) than "arranging sex dates".
The Out of Characterness, though, that can be an issue. (don't know Hepzibah well enough to judge).

[greenmask]

They're like, "hey wanna get naked later after we do exciting fighting?", that's pretty letshavesex.

[quatoria]

You know, normally I'd be 100% on board with this complaint, and I'm struggling to articulate why I'm disagreeing in this one specific instance. I think it has to do with the involvement of Namor. I've always gotten the feeling that Namor isn't meant to be a stand-in for, say, horny male readers - I've always felt, instead, that he's meant to be an antagonistic presence to male readers, kind of a personification of the fear of being cuckolded. Viewed from that perspective, it makes it hard for me to see Hepzibah's comments as a 'eh, eh, look at that hot alien chick, eh, boys'.

Hope that makes sense.

[greenmask]

Hum.. I see what you mean.

I suppose that my reading is mixed in with the fact that I enjoy characters who are single-mindedly relationship-based sexually monogamous. And it's probably a notice-the-disagreements-more-than-the-remaining-agreements thing but I feel that characters (lady characters) more commonly go from one-and-onlyism to sex-dates than characters who are one-and-only get created.

It's not that I don't enjoy characters who have sex dates too, or that I think people shouldn't be able to change their minds or enjoy a variety of relationship styles at their whim. I just like happily ever after monogamy, and characters who desire it, and I find it plenty sexy. Obviously comics aren't the ideal place to find that..

Namor's Mister Hot and Kingly and I'm sure he's a fun lay for those that choose him, it just burns my biscuits a little that a mate-for-life, jealous of her beau's dead wife, bombastic furry babe is suddenly reinforcing how much of a catch [lulz] the Prince of the Deep is. The hot, threatening to fanboys thing is affecting established character, and while that's not necessarily bad writing it's writing I don't enjoy this time.