the fabulous (and no so fabulous) women of Avengers Academy 22

[shadowpsykie]

Emma Being Fabulous




Hawkeye being an asshat, Emma and Tigra being Fabulous :D (can they be my hags? or is the proper term fruit fly? i admit to not using all my people's vernacular :D





Hazmat campaigning for asshat of the year against Finn Hudson.



can he write Emma Frost forever? :D

oooh side bar... can't you just imagine Doctor Doom in Tigra's outfit? that's right... i went there....

Comments

[nyadnar17]

Is light speed actually gay or is that dude just a presumptuous ass?

[shadowpsykie]

that's a girl. but yes, as far as i know, she has been portrayed/implied to be gay.

[crabby_lioness]

She is an ass, and Lightspeed is probably gay.

[newnumber6]

Never been confirmed, just hinted in a lot of places at least that she likes girls. I was hoping she'd turn out to be bi for silly personal reasons (yes, when I was a kid she was my first comic crush, and that kid inside me would hate to have to recognize there was never any hope (well, assuming we had existed in the same universe)), but after this issue I'm really hoping it because the constant "YOU HAVE TO BE ONE OR THE OTHER STOP SITTING ON THE FENCE AND CONFORM TO OUR EXPECTATIONS" message really only deserves a "%!@# you, no. I'm who I am, deal with it." as the outcome.

And seriously? Hazmat's only 'evidence' is 'Go team girls', 'Rainbow trails' (Guess that means Julie's sister Katie was gay for a while too... and apparently that Hazmat's just a toxic personality, and Reptil's painfully old-fashioned... I mean, he turns into DINOSAURS!), and lack of a boyfriend? May not be 'phobic', but feels pretty prejudiced.

That's like saying that because I hate watching sports, have no interest in cars, and don't have a girlfriend, I must be gay, because why would a straight guy be like that? (In my case, it's cause I'm a socially awkward geek).

Done that

[blue_bolt]

Ever seen someone who was obviously attracted to someone of the same gender and just didn't want to admit it? I have, and I tried to help by pretty much confronting them with my observations. They then responded they were tired of hearing people tell them to "come out of the closet" and that they weren't ready to try experimenting. Chances are that Lightspeed's already heard everything Hazmat just said at least half a dozen times.

Re: Done that

[shadowpsykie]

are you serious?

i mean i can see you saying "Okay dude, its obvious you like the same...." it just... skirts the edge a bit. people's privacy needs to be respected

[outlawpoet]

Haha, good bits. Missing a somewhat strange character moment for Finesse, where she moves aggressively against magneto in defence of her mentor Quicksilver, which is a new direction, but interesting.

I haven't decided if she's playing Quicksilver by asking him to teach her about his methods, or really moving her fixation. Maybe both?

Although the fact that Magneto could be touched at all by Finesse's billy club would be pretty disappointing to me if I were a budding supervillain who had idolized Mags as the ultimate bad guy.

[crabby_lioness]

I don't think Finesse is that sophisticated. Her schtick is that for all her prodigious ability read people, she hasn't a clue how to use that information for her own purposes. Her blackmailing of Quicksilver is about as fancy as she's ever got, and it's monumentally crude and blunt.

[mullon]

Accept it for her sake.

[crabby_lioness]

The funniest part had to be Hawkeye insisting that bad guys never should be let on the good guy teams and always betrayed them. Looked in the mirror lately Clint?

[icon_uk]

That HAS to be Clint working an angle, because that would be ghastly given his history and team-membership

[newnumber6]

Quicksilver seeming to make a similar argument made me lol as well.

I don't think he has..

[steverodgers5]

Looked in the mirror lately Clint?

If Clint looked at himself in the mirror recently he'd realise that his crappy 'mask' redesign doesn't work..

I really hate it when Marvel's movies start influencing their comic book look..

If it's ain't broke, don't fix it!

[long_silence]

That is the dumbest argument for someone being LGBT that I've ever heard.

"Go team girls" isn't any different from saying "Girl power" or such. And the fact that Julie's power gives off a rainbow effect doesn't make her in anyway homosexual. Her brother and sister have both used the same Acceleration power, do that mean her whole family is gay?

Also "I'm not phobic" she could have fooled me. Calling her "Double Rainbow Barbie" last issue, naturally assuming that Julie's a lesbian because she's single, "You can't decide what team to play for", telling her to come out. It makes me hope that Julie isn't actually LGBT just to show that you can't just assume like that.

God that's a terrible scene.

[shadowpsykie]

well, Hazmat is not the most... tactful character, but yeah her logic is flawed... known her all of... 24 hours?

that said, lightspeed is pretty much a closet lesbian, its been implied since the Loners/Excelsior comics (and i for one hope she comes out) but not because Hazmat pulls a Finn Hudson

[newnumber6]

Agreed with this comment a lot (and made similar comments higher up before I read this one). In fact I was flipping through this at the comic store, considering picking this up because Power Pack was my first or second 'totally loved' comic and I so I have an instinctive desire to follow the characters, and the scene made me put it back on the shelf.

[stubbleupdate]

Isn't Emma's comment on Tigra's costume a negative compliment?

[shadowpsykie]

I don't see it as that at all. I think she was being snarky, but she was sincere. Its what people have said to her.

[espanolbot]

Eh, she probably thinks that Rainbow Dash is gay as well because of her hair and tomboyishness.

RD MIGHT be, but saying she is just because of her hair colouring and love of sports is kind of presuming a lot.

[joasakura]

sweet crap, i hate hazmat.

[brooms]

yes. she's the worst.

[brooms]

i loved emma in this, i don't even care.

and lmao when finesse called mags sad and old. guuurl.

also, i want julie away from these horrible kids. ;__;

[crabby_lioness]

Finesse is correct. He's also dangerous as hell.

[crabby_lioness]

I don't hate Hazmat because I understand where she's coming from. There's so much pain and anger there. On one level she knows karma's going to bite her on the butt for the way she's acting, but on another level she's all, "Screw it, I'm in so much pain already I won't even feel it."

[pyrotwilight]

It's funny. Hazmat of course continues to be unlikable, though I do at least always wonder what mean thing she'll do or say next, but I find her and Mettle as a couple cute if not amusingly dysfunctional.

[sailorlibra]

I really love Emma Frost here. She's being so snarky about Tigra's outfit, but given the clothes she wears herself, I think she probably actually approves of the outfit. Which is just... Emma.

[shadowpsykie]

She's being smarkup, but I think it's directed at the biys

[meowshi]

For some reason, I thought Emma was being completely sincere.

[shadowpsykie]

she is being totally sincere. she is saying "Wear what you want, screw what they think!"