The return of Gail Simone's Spy Smasher

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Remember Katarina Armstrong? She was the second Spy Smasher, appearing in Birds of Prey #100-108 (collected in the trades "Blood and Circuits" and "Dead of Winter," for those who are interested).

Katarina returned this week in Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #3, written by Ivan Brandon and illustrated by Marco Rudy.

Gail, if you're reading this, do you have any plans on using Katarina again? It shouldn't be hard to restore her memory (if it isn't already restored by the end of the series), and it'd make sense that she'd be involved with the Department of Metahuman Affairs where Diana works.

Comments

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

No. She was certainly considering it - she didn't quit smoking and literally the last word we ever heard from her on the subject was "who said I'm keeping it" (and there's no sign of a kid in the flashforward issues, not that that means *anything* whatsoever). But the way she talks about Dylan and how badly she needs to find him in that scene, especially the way she talks about the pregnancy, suggests that if she did have Dylan around, she'd consider her options differently, so if he showed back up at some point between then and now she might have reconsidered. Anyway, either way she never actually got one that we saw. It would be fairly standard modern comic, frankly, to have her miscarry as a result of just this sort of event-related shenanigan right when she'd finally decided to keep the kid after all, or whatever.

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

Hmm. I would like to have seen the story played out. Andreyko seems like he would be a writer who be willing to do a story where there wasn't a timely miscarriage as the solution to a unexpected pregnancy (but didn't Kate have one now that I think of it?).