Emma Frost #2

[history79]

8 pages of 24

Comments

[zachbeacon]

That Greg Horn cover is just begging for the Hawkeye Initiative treatment.

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com

[plastefuchs]

#1 is already ... covered http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/post/86494900381/a-comparison-of-the-emma-frost-higher-learning

[zachbeacon]

Yeah but she doesn't have a bow and arrow in that one.

[reveen]

Creepily ill-fitting cover art aside the burning question I have here is when does this take place, and how old is present Emma Frost supposed to be? Because I saw a bunch of things that might say 50s 60s, mixed in with stuff that makes me think 70s 80s and even 90s.

[donnblake]

The trouble with writing a backstory for a character who lives in an Eternal Now, I suppose. Although parts of it might just be down to it being a conservative and traditional private school.

[flint_marko]

She said she was 27 in Grant Morrison's run.

In a later issue we see the original x men on tv, so it takes place around that period.

[arilou_skiff]

"At some point before now".

Trying to figure out time in the Marvel Universe just leads to headaches and time-displaced children with people you've never met.

[tripodeca113]

Covers are still terrible, and really creepy with the story they've been coupled with.

[flint_marko]

The covers start showing the younger Emma after the first arc.

[donnblake]

Well, that could either make it better or far, far worse.

[flint_marko]

https://www.comics.org/series/17362/covers/

[berani00]

It was at its worse with issue 5, with Emma Frost in her White Queen getup looking suspiciously like early-2000's Britney Spears posed in such a way you're almost certain to bestaring down her cleavage.
Making matters worse for me it was literally the first I ever saw of her as it was her big picture in her section in the official Marvel Encyclopedia circa 2013 (if Spider-Man's section is anything to go by) and being a horny but very self-conscious 14-15 year old at the time I had the unfortunate experience of getting turned on whilst thinking "Does she actually look like that?" like I was invoking Frost herself.

On a side-note said image had the side-effect of installing my very autistic and once-impressionable brain with headcanon for a while that Emma is a dead ringer for Britney Spears, since it was before I remembered that I watched X-Men First Class.

[full_metal_ox]

And a firmly installed bit of my headcanon is that Emma Frost's powerset has got to include low-level telekinesis or adhesion:

[rfmcdonald]

The problem was that the covers did not match the material. The story of how a young teenager became the White Queen was and is potentially quite compelling, but the covers did a very poor job of attracting (say) female readers who might want to read about Emma. The contents, meanwhile, are not cheesecake.