Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Then He Flew Back To The Watchtower And Cried

While I was at the comic store today, I took a minute to skim through a copy of Savage She-Hulk #2, the mini-series from 2009 that brought Lyra into the Marvel Universe. I thought she seemed more mature there than she does in She-Hulks, but all she did was fight Jennifer Walters, which is something she's good at. She wasn't trying to be an ordinary human, or avoid detention, situations where she's out of her element. Also, the artist of that issue (either Michael Ryan or Aubrey Sitterson) drew her as having more mass than Ryan Stegman does. That makes her look older, too.

That wasn't the primary thing that caught my eye. Over the course over Lyra's fight with Jen, she mentions she's looking for this generation's greatest hero. Naturally, she can only mean the Sentry. Well, that's what the Sentry thinks anyway. He overhears this, tosses Jen halfway across town, and introduces himself as the person she's obviously looking for. Fortunately for all of us who loathe the Sentry's insertion into the Marvel Universe as everybody's bestest friend ever, Lyra completely shoots him down*. Unfortunately, she shoots him down by stating she's looking for Norman Osborn. Little bit of a whiff there.

It's a reminder of how malleable history is, I suppose. Depending on who writes the history books (or which history books survive) people could actually think Norman Osborn is a hero, rather than a loon who once wanted to be a crime boss but mostly succeeded in wrecking his son's life.

* I think Fred van Lente wrote that sequence purposefully, but even if it wasn't meant as some commentary on the status certain writers were trying to place upon Bob Reynolds, it was still funny.

3 comments:

Matthew said...

Grrrrrrrr.

That is all.

CalvinPitt said...

Matthew: It was the Sentry mockery, wasn't it?

Matthew said...

I am drawn to it, like a moth to the flame. Like The Sentry with my very own CLOC-directed schedule.