Zel
03-02-2006, 12:34 AM
I've generally been enjoying the I Heart books, underpromoted event that it is. This issue feature two stories by Fabian Nicieza.
The first is a cute and amusing story of Squirrel Girl's crush on Speedball. Not laugh out loud funny, but kind of hehe, yeah, that's funny. Speedball is making a personal appearance in Wisconsin and Squirrel takes the opportunity to try and meet him.
Watching from the edge of the crowd of adoring girls that have come to see Speedball, Squirrel spots a villain, The Bug-Eyed Voice, suiting up. She beats him and up and almost gets arrested by the cops since the Bug hadn't actually done anything and he was only carrying a paintball gun. Speedball never notices the altercation and leaves without ever seeing Squirrel.
But Squirrel's sidekick Tippy-Toe saves the day by making an anonymous call to Speedball about what Squirrel did. Speedball pays her a visit, they kiss and Speedball bounces off into the sunset.
Interesting factoid: Squirrel Girl's lips taste like hazlenut.
The second story is about Firestar and Justice, they've been engaged for quite a while real time and no one's done anything with it since the two of them dropped into limbo.
Justice has been the one making all the wedding preparations while Firestar is busy with college. Firestar goes out with her roomate and a couple of guys one night for a bachelorette-night type thing. The next morning Firestar's in bed alone, but her roomate and her roomate's boyfriend are in the bed next to her. (Must've been hard to get to sleep with that going on). The big night out makes Firestar oversleep and miss the appointment with the minister. Leaving poor Vance stood up, not at the altar, but in the same building as the altar. Justice eventually confronts her about her feelings and they split up.
It seems that Firestar doesn't want to get married, she wants to be normal. And since she's 19 and a freshman in college now, that doesn't include marriage.
I found this just odd. Her attitude comes as a real abrupt 180 from what I've felt the character's feelings have been before. She's always been the one pushing for Justice to give up the hero life and settle down. Also she's always been very worried about the effects her powers have on her fertility. She had Pym make her a costume to protect herself from her own powers during her stint with the Avengers. I remember her as really wanting to quit the hero life, settle down and have kids.
I've also always gotten the impression that Firestar's older than 19. Maybe it's just that she's always been written as responsible and mature.
Well, that's the way it is with anthologies. Like some of the stories, don't like others.
The first is a cute and amusing story of Squirrel Girl's crush on Speedball. Not laugh out loud funny, but kind of hehe, yeah, that's funny. Speedball is making a personal appearance in Wisconsin and Squirrel takes the opportunity to try and meet him.
Watching from the edge of the crowd of adoring girls that have come to see Speedball, Squirrel spots a villain, The Bug-Eyed Voice, suiting up. She beats him and up and almost gets arrested by the cops since the Bug hadn't actually done anything and he was only carrying a paintball gun. Speedball never notices the altercation and leaves without ever seeing Squirrel.
But Squirrel's sidekick Tippy-Toe saves the day by making an anonymous call to Speedball about what Squirrel did. Speedball pays her a visit, they kiss and Speedball bounces off into the sunset.
Interesting factoid: Squirrel Girl's lips taste like hazlenut.
The second story is about Firestar and Justice, they've been engaged for quite a while real time and no one's done anything with it since the two of them dropped into limbo.
Justice has been the one making all the wedding preparations while Firestar is busy with college. Firestar goes out with her roomate and a couple of guys one night for a bachelorette-night type thing. The next morning Firestar's in bed alone, but her roomate and her roomate's boyfriend are in the bed next to her. (Must've been hard to get to sleep with that going on). The big night out makes Firestar oversleep and miss the appointment with the minister. Leaving poor Vance stood up, not at the altar, but in the same building as the altar. Justice eventually confronts her about her feelings and they split up.
It seems that Firestar doesn't want to get married, she wants to be normal. And since she's 19 and a freshman in college now, that doesn't include marriage.
I found this just odd. Her attitude comes as a real abrupt 180 from what I've felt the character's feelings have been before. She's always been the one pushing for Justice to give up the hero life and settle down. Also she's always been very worried about the effects her powers have on her fertility. She had Pym make her a costume to protect herself from her own powers during her stint with the Avengers. I remember her as really wanting to quit the hero life, settle down and have kids.
I've also always gotten the impression that Firestar's older than 19. Maybe it's just that she's always been written as responsible and mature.
Well, that's the way it is with anthologies. Like some of the stories, don't like others.