Our Princess is in Another Refrigerator

The topic of this first women write about comics blogamafest is Women in in Refrigerators, 13 years later. (Subtitle: the freezerburn.) I tackled a lot of what I think about WiR previously, so today I’m going to talk more about what other people think. And then I’m going to tell you what I think again, because I don’t shut up.

In August of 2009, Natasha was appearing in three books: Captain America, Invincible Iron Man, and Thunderbolts. In August of 2009, Natasha was captured in each one of them by the same Norman Osborn. And in August of 2009, quite a few people cried refrigerator.

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Thoughts on Diggle’s Thunderbolts Run

To close out Thunderbolts week, I thought I would review Andy Diggle’s run that I’ve been spamming the past few days. Diggle had the admittedly thankless job of following Warren “Fucking” Ellis’s reinvention of the series, so he named his first arc after a Talking Heads song and brought in a whole new team of Z-listers.

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This is a pretty badass cover.

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I did like that Natasha knew her team better than they knew themselves, here. This kind of faith is exactly what the Thunderbolts are supposed to be about, and I appreciated that Diggle explored that.

Well, except Mr. X. She obviously wasn’t talking to you.

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