Well, this is certainly disturbing: How one line in a recap text page can retroactively turn Wolverine into a potential statutory rapist:
The description of Squirrel Girl as a teenage heroine is a new one, as far as I can determine. In a previous issue’s synopsis, Squirrel Girl is referred to as an “arboreal hero,” not a teenage hero. Even taking the most liberal definition of “teenager,” that would make Squirrel Girl, in continuity as it stands now, 19 years of age at the most. To be realistic, though, most people wouldn’t refer to a 19-year-old as a teenage girl. So we’re faced with the prospect of Squirrel Girl being in her mid-teens. And judging from the tone of the first scene pictured above, it’s been some time since Squirrel Girl and Wolverine have crossed paths.
Go read the whole thing for the full explanation. To be fair, all of the Wolverine/Squirrel Girl relationship material is implied instead of outright stated – Although it’s hardly subtle – but nonetheless, Don MacPherson is very, very right: Ewww.
December 19th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I always thought of Squirrel Girl as being a youthful, light-hearted character. Maybe that’s where they get the “teenage” notion from.
December 19th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
There’s a crop of current Marvel writers (well, to be fair, DC has quite a few as well) that seems to want to sexualize every female character that comes across with any purity simply as a one-liner. The scene with Rogue talking about her “relationship” with the Sentry a couple years ago rang of that.
Personally, I’m not a fan. You want the character to develop, have her grow in the stories, give her a real relationship, make it at least somewhat realistic. This is just a waste of a sweet character, which there’s already a dearth of.
December 20th, 2011 at 2:46 am
you made a blog post commenting on how accurate another blogger was on describing the sexual depiction of fictional female superhero who dresses like a squirrel.
and I just made a comment on it. This is it, this the moment where I truly believe there is no god and life is pointless. hours and hours of reading about comics and their pointless idiocy and I feel nothing but anger and loneliness. I can’t believe how much of my life I have wasted on this foolish addiction, it makes me want to crawl into a ball and cry. I just don’t understand the point of going on anymore.