tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post2331594019122255433..comments2023-10-11T10:40:48.712-04:00Comments on The Miserable Annals of the Earth: She's got a brain, a super-brain... wait... no, she doesn'tDoc Nebulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-69297022510032711392013-10-03T05:03:34.230-04:002013-10-03T05:03:34.230-04:00I read the Danvers write up you pointed me to. In...I read the Danvers write up you pointed me to. Interesting. Marvel actually has relatively few female characters whose histories extend back to the early Silver Age, and Danvers is without a doubt one of the most absurdly contrived and otherwise messed up. You do nice work trying to straighten it out, although personally I suspect Danvers has been mind controlled a few times and perhaps even replaced by alien shapeshifters or mutants or something for long stretches. Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-13528642512585938532013-10-01T13:39:47.903-04:002013-10-01T13:39:47.903-04:00Thanks, Darci. I gave up on contemporary comics n...Thanks, Darci. I gave up on contemporary comics nearly a decade ago, so was unaware of recent developments. Stupid of me to get Cat/Tigra's last name wrong, though.<br /><br />I'm not entirely sure it was ever made anything remotely like 'official', but when the Avengers found the costume Patsy Baxter/Walker originally donned to become Hellcat, both Iron Man and Captain America recognized it as being the costume of The Cat, and speculated that perhaps Roxxon/Brand had simply bought the costume somewhere after the Cat disappeared. <br /><br />I don't know where it was established that the suit had movement-amplifying microcircuitry in it, although Patsy herself noted that normally she was pretty limber, but in this suit, she was Olympic material -- strongly indicating that the suit had some kind of augmentation capacities in it. <br /><br />Now, it's very possible that after Dr. Tumolo supposedly died and the Cat effectively shut down her patron's "hypnotized superwomen slave-soldiers" project, Roxxon/Brand (who may have surreptitiously been backing the project) wound up with the projects effects... and possibly among them, there was a version of the Cat costume that had movement enhancing microcircuitry in it, which Greer never used. <br /><br />And, yes, it's a pity we never really saw ANYthing to indicate that Greer, in any of her personas, was 'super intelligent'. That would have been interesting. Apparently, super horny was the best Jim Shooter and Alan Weiss could come up with. Kinda figures, don't it?<br />Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-23896510912766990922013-09-30T21:13:51.055-04:002013-09-30T21:13:51.055-04:00Re: "In Marvel's long ago, very short li...Re: "In Marvel's long ago, very short lived CLAWS OF THE CAT series, there is a female super scientist, Joanne Tumolo (I think). She gives Greer Larsen her cat-like powers and a supersuit that turns out to be full of movement enhancing microcircuitry. However, later on, she turns out to be a disguised cat-person who actually uses magical powers rather than super science, so I'm not sure she counts."<br /><br />You're right about Dr. Tumolo (although her assistant's name was Greer Nelson). Greer too, after the treatments, was supposed to have a superhuman intellect. Sadly, she never got much of a chance to display it. So many missed opportunities in that short-lived series!<br />(BTW, there was no micro-circuity in the Cat uniforms. That was implied to exist in the Hellcat's costume (which superficially resembles the Cat's). Dr. Tumolo's treatments are what empowered Greer and the other test subject, Shirlee Bryant.)<br /><br />Perhaps you're familiar with Superia, aka Dr. Deirdre Wentworth? She used a student of her colleague, Prof. Suzanne Polukort, to prove women could become the Femizons her Time-Probe had revealed ruled the world of the 23rd century. (The student, Cathy Webster, became the super-heroine known as Free Spirit.) More recently, she worked with Norman Osborn in his second incarnation of the Dark Avengers (impersonating Ms. Marvel) in New Avengers.<br /><br />Speaking of the Dark Avengers, that story arc also features Monica Rappaccini, the current Scientist Supreme of A.I.M. (which should put her on a level with Dr. Pym, at least).<br /><br />Also, re: "Carol Danvers... I don't know what she's doing these days." Carol was going through a bad time when she was at Cape Kennedy (see http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=4522 for a conjecture why). Currently she's been assigned to take up the Captain Marvel nom de guerre (which is something of a demotion, since she was a USAF Major!)<br />Hope this helps!Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.com