Here she comes...Miss America!

America Chavez, the superpowered hothead from A-Force #1 is getting her own book:

www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/19/miss-ame...-get-her-own-series/

Woo-hoo!

ElF

geekseven wrote:

lfan wrote: America Chavez, the superpowered hothead from A-Force #1 is getting her own book:

www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/19/miss-ame...-get-her-own-series/

Woo-hoo!

ElF

Cool beans. I liked her.

I only remember bits of her from "Loki, Agent of Asgard" and "Young Avengers" but I really don't find her that appealing. She felt like a very one-note character, very cocksure and tough-talking, but very shallow otherwise.

Woodclaw wrote:

geekseven wrote:

lfan wrote: America Chavez, the superpowered hothead from A-Force #1 is getting her own book:

www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/19/miss-ame...-get-her-own-series/

Woo-hoo!

ElF

Cool beans. I liked her.

I only remember bits of her from "Loki, Agent of Asgard" and "Young Avengers" but I really don't find her that appealing. She felt like a very one-note character, very cocksure and tough-talking, but very shallow otherwise.

I like her, as she is a complete 180 in temperament to the old Miss America (formerly of the Invaders) as well as a hat trick "minority" character (a Hispanic, gay woman). While she's pretty much a stereotyped hot headed brick, she is extremely loyal and protective of her friends, as evidenced in A-Force and Young Avengers.

I probably like her cause she's about as close to Powergirl as there is in the Marvel Universe in terms of power set and personality.

ElF

TwiceOnThursdays wrote: I have to say, I liked her too. Anyone who gives Loki shit can't be all that bad.

She might need a bit of definition to her character, but that's a good thing to tackle in a series.

I am simply watching. Her "progressive" attributes score exactly ZERO points with me - they neither add to nor subtract from the character. Now the question is can they put up another flying brick stronger than Captain Marvel apparently and not bore my ass off? She's earned a shot, but definitely has not earned a free pass.

Honestly I'd be ten times more impressed with those talking points if she were a villain. Because how dare bad guys be anything other than 1-dimensional. Marvel is pretty much always sucking fumes when it comes to a broad stable of credible villains. Probably since the moment any of them get traction with the readership they do a face-turn... (Heroic Eddie Brock/Symbiote...WTF?)

Castor wrote: I will kind of say i hope its not i am a proud Gay Female Hispanic, and everyone i hang out with is proud that i am proud gay female hispanic except this one guy.

This sums up some of my concerns, Marvel has a history of creating and shoving down their readers' throats new characters that are nothing but an attemtp of being extra-progressive without any meat to them, a pretty egregious example is Monica Rambeau, who pretty much was dumped on the scene of Avengers in the '80s. The bad thing is that many of these characters don't get much characterization after their initial push and some tend to devolve in joke versions of themselves.

AuGoose wrote:

TwiceOnThursdays wrote: I have to say, I liked her too. Anyone who gives Loki shit can't be all that bad.

She might need a bit of definition to her character, but that's a good thing to tackle in a series.

I am simply watching. Her "progressive" attributes score exactly ZERO points with me - they neither add to nor subtract from the character. Now the question is can they put up another flying brick stronger than Captain Marvel apparently and not bore my ass off? She's earned a shot, but definitely has not earned a free pass.

Honestly I'd be ten times more impressed with those talking points if she were a villain. Because how dare bad guys be anything other than 1-dimensional. Marvel is pretty much always sucking fumes when it comes to a broad stable of credible villains. Probably since the moment any of them get traction with the readership they do a face-turn... (Heroic Eddie Brock/Symbiote...WTF?)

The villain part of the equation is true for more or less every comic publisher in my book. Not because it's harder to write villains, but rather because it's hard to do that without making them sympathetic. One of the thing I remember most fondly of Mark Gruenwald's tenure on "Captain America" was the fact that he was able to consistently write very nice parallel stories, showcasing both Cap and the Red Skull's crew in the book without making it feel forced and without screwing up the villain's characterization.