Marvel Voices: Pride #1 (2023)

[shakalooloo]

Well, Marvel finally gave their annual Pride anthology the squarebound treatment rather than the usual staples, so that's an improvement. Still having a #1 issue with the same title several years in a row though, the contents pages remain a nightmare and they have ads interrupt stories rather than place them in-between, so nothing's perfect.




Oh yeah, and not everyone on the cover is within the issue.





Marieke Williams, story; Héctor Barros, pencils; Oren Junior, inks; Andrew Dalhouse, colors; Ariana Maher, letters.





Sarah Gailey, story; Bailie Rosenlund, pencils and inks; Rachelle Rosenburg, colors; Ariana Maher, letters.

Comments

[shakalooloo]

Bunker kinda suffers from the New 52 stink, plus the fact that the Teen Titans wheel has rolled back around to classic iteration again. Most new Teen Titans characters end up getting disappeared or dying, so Bunker's not being singled out in this case.

[zachbeacon]

I'm not saying I want to see Bunker again. I'd also be fine never seeing Clash again. I just like enough of these characters that I sympathize with their fans when they vanish. I'm sure all three Tasmanian Devil (no, the other one) fans are constantly furious at DC.

I mean, my favorite story in the last DC Pride issue was a Conner Hawke / Tim Drake story that would have been unthinkable not long ago both because the Nu 52 stole them from us and they were both closeted when they vanished.

And again, I've loved The Ray since the Priest mini and now they only bring him back when they need to fill out a crowd scene in one of these things.

(I feel like I'm taking about DC Pride 2023 a lot on this Marvel Pride 2023 thread but that's because I've actually read the former)

Do all the characters on the Marvel Pride 2023 cover make it into the interior of the comic? I'm still not over last year's bait and switch.

[shakalooloo]

No, once again DC previews what's inside on the cover, and Marvel lies. No Loki, no Mystique & Destiny, no Escapade, no Somnus...

But we do get the return of Jason Aaron's breakout mutant character, Snot!

[beyondthefringe]

I like The Tasmanian Devil. He gets big and hairy, after all... :)

Sadly, you're right in that comics go in cycles where this year's popular new character, the one who shows up for the big crossover events and is wildly useful for 5 minutes, is next year's crowd-filler. One year it's the Ray, one year it's Damage, this year it was the Monkey Prince...
And anyone who's a fan of these B/C/D listers knows the same sensation.