Secret Six #16

[gargoylekitty]

With a two more for the 'Many Looks of Black Alice' and, as noted on Twitter...


First up, Black Alice stops Catman and Deadshot from ditching her.

Meh. Not too creative, just like your typical female version of the character with a lower/more angular dip in the front of the outfit.
Anyhow, she obviously succeeds so they head to a strip club, another attempt to ditch her.

Obviously, again, that fails.


With Scandal & co. there, they try to address the issue of 'Black Alice is definitely not joining them'(reason for her wanting to in the issue, go read!)

And they continue on the path of failing to get rid of her.

Not the biggest fan of Black Alice but it was an alright issue, only wish Scott had been on the art for it. :\

Comments

[schmevil]

Except she hasn't been challenged over creating "another super powerful white teenager like the dozens already overrunning the DCU." She's been accused of writing a Mary Sue.

Her response was to complain about the term. And hey, she's complained about the term being applied to other people's characters as well. I would hardly categorize her response as embarrassing.

[raygunjill]

A Mary Sue is an overpowered character with an angsty past that comes in and jobs the preexisting characters and gets to stick around despite not being qualified. Alice in this issue is a Mary Sue.

[zegim]

But a Mary Sue is also a self-insert character that we are supposed to love. A very important characteristic that a lot of people forget when use Mary Sue as shorthand for "character I don't like"

[galateus]

No, that isn't what a Mary Sue is. That's just the most common kind in fanfic, and those traits you mentioned don't *automatically* make a character a Sue.

Alice'd have to be written way worse and be almost nothing but clichés to be a Mary Sue.