Comments on: Ms. Marvel #18 Review

By: Paul Sebert

Paul Sebert — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:18:10 +0000

The weird thing is that this take on Puppet Master is actually less of a deviation on the original concept than the last time he showed up in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Marvel Knights 4. In which the character was actually murdering innocent women trying to find the perfect pair of eyes for his daughter's transplant. Reed's take is really creepy. I'm hoping he doesn't get away with too much in this arc.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:28:13 +0000

My problem is that I canâ€™t really ever read any Ms. Marvel comic againâ€“because now and forever, Ms. Marvel is the super-hero who beat the crap out of Spider-Woman in front of Spider-Womanâ€™s ten-year old daughter. For resisting the SHRA, of course, a noble and laudable reason to traumatize a little girl for life.

Carpenter dragged the kid out as a human shield. It's a sad incident, but cops do it all the time.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:39:39 +0000

Thanks, Omar - I was trying to remember what he did in that run.

That was lame.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:32:33 +0000

The Puppet Master's been inconsistently portrayed -- after years of a farily solid character arc ending with semi-reformation -- since J.M. DeMatteis somewhat revillainized him in his Silver Surfer run.

That said, the last time I recall seeing him before this story was in Marvel Knights: 4, where he was cutting out young women's eyes in a psychotic attempt to give Alicia her sight back. Selling people into slavery isn't so much farther down the path of evil than serial killing, is it?

By: Ian Astheimer

Ian Astheimer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:37:20 +0000

Enslaving women sounds more like Purple Man's m.o.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:06:26 +0000

I read the 1st Ms. Marvel TPB and the one-shot.

Both didnÂ´t impress me.

Still, itÂ´s nice to see a B list female character having her own book.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:18:48 +0000

My problem is that I can't really ever read any Ms. Marvel comic again--because now and forever, Ms. Marvel is the super-hero who beat the crap out of Spider-Woman in front of Spider-Woman's ten-year old daughter. For resisting the SHRA, of course, a noble and laudable reason to traumatize a little girl for life.

"Best of the Best", my sorry arse.