Sunday, June 22, 2008

Vexxing about Vixen part 2

A while back I expressed concern for the directing that was being taken with the Vixen character. For those unfamiliar, rather than accessing the abilities of animals, she now mimics and perhaps siphons the abilities of humans. This all came to a head in issue 22 of Justice League of America, where Vixen came clean to her teammates and was promptly kicked off the team by chairwoman Black Canary ( who I must credit Dwayne McDuffie in writing as a strong character not afraid to put the "Big Guns" in their place.). Why this is a positive and a payoff to me is that within minutes of "firing" Vixen, Black Canary enlisted the help of Zatanna to help fix her problem. In a story that had a lot going on ( Red Tornado gets a new body only to have it stolen again by Amazo, and asks Kathy to marry him, Red Arrow gets relationship advice from Superman and Green Lantern and Bronze Tiger and Vixen make the hottest African American couple since Black Panther and Storm), this was definitely the part that stood out most for me.

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