Cracked.com has a great little piece on the “Six Creepiest Comics Characters of All Time”. I’m familiar with some of them and some of them were fun and horrible new discoveries.
All their picks are solid, but I have to SUPER agree with them on #5 Ultimate Pietro and Wanda Maximoff (Quicksilver and The Scarlet Witch)*, who are twins that are apparently now ‘in love’ with each other. I haven’t been reading X-Men for years, and when I did they were always exceedingly close, almost slightly uncomfortably close, but now they’ve just gone and admitted that they’re in love with each other (of course they “killed” her in order to deal with the problematic and controversial storyline they got themselves into) but it was really creepy. More creepy than that though, was The Wasp’s explanation to Captain America about it. She explains their incestuous love as if it’s something common and even enouraged in the Twenty First Century…as if Captain America is an old fuddy duddy because he’s shocked by it. I wonder where the writing team’s head was at when they wrote this particular page. Check out the excerpt below…
Yikes.
*It should be noted that this version of Pietro & Wanda exists in the “Ultimate Universe”, which if you’re not familiar with the insanity (and joke) that is comics continuity, is too difficult to explain here. Suffice to say, multiple versions of multiple characters exist in different books and worlds etc. It’s one of the original reasons I stopped reading comics and have never really truly gone back. Although the Ultimate Universe is generally pretty awesome, with well thought out stories and great writers and artists, taking the characters places they probably should have gone originally, I would say this storyline for Pietro & Wanda are an exception to that “awesomeness”…
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Too bad they took it there. I always felt that Quiksilver was one of a few characters not used to their potential in the x-universe….others being Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Sync, Maggot…. there’s actually quite a list of characters I would have loved to see more of instead of the same tired Wolverine/Cyclops/Colossus/even Cable stories that were so common.
I mean what ever happened to Guido anyway?
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You know I totally agree with you…except for the fact that reading Astonishing X-Men by Whedon totally taught me that even characters I didn’t LOVE could become my favorites when written well and with respect. You know I never liked Kitty and I was always ho-hum (comparatively) on Colossus, but Joss Whedon’s Astonishing arc – largely featuring those two – is by far one of the best (and one of my favorite) arcs I’ve ever read. I know you felt strongly about it too.
I do agree that it’s sad to see Quicksilver, Strong Guy, and Multiple Man underused – they were so great when X-Factor was so strong – and some fo the stuff they were doing with Quicksilver back then was awesome…but it just all falls apart as the creators depart (or are forced out or into stories they don’t want to tell). The idea that I know more about the Rogue character than any living person ought to, but that even I can’t unravel her current “story/character” is just absurd. I hate what they do to these characters by handing them around from creator to creator.
Hmm…do you think I feel strongly about this? I guess so!
PS – I’m sending you my copy of TWD #48 tomorrow, because I can’t bear for you to have not read it yet, and I haven’t heard back yet from the comic company. Expect it in a couple days.
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