Found these on Tumblr. Posted For truth.
And Marvel, you’re not doing much better either.
Back in the 90s Storm was hands down the first lady of Marvel comics (though I’ll be the first to admit that a strong argument can also be made for Sue Storm as well). Her popularity not only…Just reblogging for some truth and some things to think about.
Storm was my favorite character for years, I adored her, but it seems over the years, they just sort of drifted away from what made her so cool to me.
I haven’t read any of her stories in years, so please take my observations as potentially outdated. But I miss the Storm that kicked ass.
Ironically, when I was little (in the late 80s and early 90s; I started reading my older sister’s comics at 2, beginning with Wonder Woman), I often felt like there was something wrong with me because I was blond. Not only did everyone in my family have dark hair (including my parents, two older sisters, and younger brother and sister), but so did all the characters in the comics I read: Superman (and Lois Lane), Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash (I was platinum blond, so red was dark to me).
Steve Trevor was my favorite character - a blond, like me, who was a good guy and daring officer who Wonder Woman loved. Unfortunately, I encountered him in a book of reprints selected by Gloria Steinem. I started reading just after Crisis on Infinite Earths, so, in the monthly comics, Steve Trevor was suddenly an old man compared to Wonder Woman, and quickly disappeared. Supergirl was nowhere to be seen (killed in the Crisis, for some reason, along with the blond Flash). And I’d never heard of Marvel.
It’s odd that the bat family was chosen, because I felt the same way. After Wonder Woman, Batman was my favorite superhero. I would have loved to have had a blond character like Stephanie in the bat family. (Actually, I much prefer Cass and Barbara, and it probably wouldn’t have helped my blondness-related self opinion to have the only blond be such a screwup.)
It’s funny how there is always another side to questions of appearance and identity.
