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Favorite Marvel Ladies!

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I don't necessarily agree with gender bending traditionally male characters, or even tweeking a female character's name and then introducing a brand new character in the previous role (Julia Carpenter is a good example of this). Still, Marvel is enjoying a renaissance of powerful women right now, and I do like that a lot! I enjoy looking at women as much as fellas, and strong storytelling for these characters is the icing on the cake!

So, here's my list of favorite vile villainesses and mighty maidens kickin' it the Marvel way!

-A.

List items

  • WOW. Just wow. Willow Wilson humanized Arabic culture for a new generation of young American readers and wrote a story about a teenage girl that is not a rejected script for DeGrassi Forever. Kamala Khan is written to be younger than me, but I have to look up to her. She is courageous and clever in a very genuine way.

  • I started as an X-Man fan, and I think Jubilee resonated with me because she was a runaway in a mall when she first appeared in Uncanny # 244. She is constantly reinventing herself, from, "Yup, back when I was in the X-Men..." Jubilee to Generation X member to Wondra to teenage vampire and single mom! She has worn many hats, and I think she offers a positive future for Marvel mutants!

  • This team embodies two of my nerdy passtimes: professional wrestling and comics. I haven't read any Grappler stories since Titania and Letha came back from the dead and Songbird joined the Thunderbolts, but I still enjoy their classic appearances in Marvel Two-in-One, Dazzler, and The Thing.

  • Morally flexible Smurfette with guns and shape-changing? I'm in. Her character has been as static as Jubilee's, though at the core always lurks a pragmatic opportunist more interested in her own self-preservation.

  • Okay, she's not a Marvel character anymore, but her comic book history started in the House of Ideas. Frank Thorne brought her to life and legends like John Buscema and Val Mayerik saw her through until she moved to other shores. She made fantasy swordsmaidens cool long before Xena and Gabby were kissing and when Greg Land's Sojurn was just a twinkle in his eye.

  • My former crush loaned me a bunch of trades back in the day, including Agents of Atlas. I really liked Namora, even better than Namorita, and have been looking around for appearances ever since.

  • I don't like that she is the new Wolverine. I mean, it makes sense, but Laura Kinney was doing so well on her own. I don't feel like she needs to hitch her star to someone else's complicated identity, especially if she is trying to create distinction between herself and her genetic donor.

  • Like Red Sonja, no longer a Marvel character, but Belit the Pirate Queen was THE reason I ever read a Conan comic. Like Red, her comic book mythos started under the Marvel banner; that's why she is here.

  • Before there was a Harley Quinn, Typhoid Mary was all kinds of crazy in Daredevil. She's gotten sexier and deadlier over the years, and since she popped up in X-books, I am sold on her as a multi-faceted character.

  • I want a cool robot arm to crush parking meters and bitchslap cashiers in drive-thrus. I didn't like Fearless Defenders or Heroes for Hire, but I still have much love for Misty Knight. Does anyone remember that she used to date Cyclops?
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