Patsy Walker: taking no shit from creepy dudes since, um, well at least since she came back from the dead after her second marriage. Spending time in Hell: It's a real eye-opening experience!
It's my favorite mini-series of 2008! The issue opens with patsy modeling her downstairs neighbor, Rueben's final project for his degree in fashion. The fun times are ruined by a phone call from Tony Stark, not yet fired from his Boss of All Heroes job. Stark immediately demonstrates how unfit he is for the position by assigning Patsy to be the only hero in Alaska.
Great idea! Give the largest, most difficult to traverse state in the country to a hero who can't fly, teleport, or run superfast. It's not as though Alaska is home to a wealth of mineral resources, abundant places to hide secret bases, or enormous amounts of mystical energy.
(Alpha Flight was always fighting some supernatural thing related to the Gods of the North. You can't tell me those beings give a shit about international borders. They are definitely present in Alaska, too.)
I could sit here and shit-talk Tony Stark's intelligence all day, but let's talk about Patsy instead. She hitches a ride with a SHIELD jet up to Alaska, and gets a bad vibe from some bears she sees. Because she has an extra sense for mystical trouble. She decides to enlist the aid of some locals in exploring the wildlife, although it takes a lot of money to get some cooperation. Which is also when she runs into the creep in the first pair of panels.
Her guide - the guy looking a gift hellcat in the mouth up there - advises her hitting a lecher with a plastic mug is a bad idea, which means he's not much of an ally.
'He's not a bad guy, really. Just old-fashioned!' They've barely been snowmobiling around any time at all before they're attacked by the two bears. Who now have antlers. That can talk. Well, that's clearly some mad science at work.
Patsy ditches the civilian duds to fight the bears, and toboggans down a slope on one of them, after slinging the other one around by its antlers until it kind of poofs out of existence. Sounds fun! They go over a cliff! Could still be fun. Into the mouth of some kraken-looking thing while a couple of weathered old ladies look on! Not fun.
[8th longbox, 60th comic,
Patsy Walker: Hellcat #1, by Kathryn Immonen (writer), Daivd Lafuente (artist), John Rauch (color artist), Dave and Natalie Lanphear (letterers)]
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