I don't want Emma with Cyclops until all of the X-Men editorial are replaced. Morrison, Whedon, Carey and Gillen can all do good jobs on the two, and Morrison wrote those two in a time when he had some control over how each were represented. Except his success prompted X-Editorial to try replicate where they thought Morrisons ideas would go after he left. They done a really bad job. Emma to me is best as a smart, intellectual, independent, teacher and voice of critical reason. Except that doesn't make for a good cheerleader and ego booster to an unparalleled, weight of the world on my shoulders, badass playa playa. Now a trophy wife can be written snarky, and endearing, and witty, and thus well, but a trophy wife is still a trophy wife. If the plot is bad then even good writing can't save a good character from a bad arrangement. I'm tired of mediocrity and subjective projections and apologist like interpretation readings when certain editors and writers have been quite candid about their agendas with certain characters.
I'd like to see more depth and complexity with Emma and her fellow X-Woman. You have these amazing female characters, so many of them, stubborn, strong, smart and articulate, but none of them are exactly alike, which means there is going to be a natural clash of egos, and words, but nothing that should ever seem so black and white, and for all their differences, these characters share similarities and so potential for strong and great friendships are there. Emma Frost was recently invoked by many involved with Slut Walk Movements, and Emma is extremely popular with many female comic fans, despite writing and art in comics having a natural disposition towards the male gender. There is validity in the idea that in the future Emma Frost could potentially usurp a character like Wonder Woman as the epitome of female strength, wit and confidence in the eyes of the mainstream with good writing and good stories.
I'd like the character to bring back the controversy. She was introduced as a controversial character, her career is defined by controversial moments. Grant Morrison used her to bring edge back to the X-Men and to one of its best characters that had fallen into the shadows. With so many ignorant people and groups running around in real life with stronger ignorant opinions and statements, having a smart progressive writer use a smart and witty Emma to make clever and visceral observations and commitments controversy be damned, I could only see as a good thing. Comics are full with hypocritical and dumb characters. Emma should be having a field day with the verbal deconstruction's she could be laying down.
I adored her interaction with her brother, and many of the times she has interacted with students. So I would like to see more of that. Emma can be a cold callus, and tough character, and here you can both play that up, as well actually ambiguously hint at the selfless, kinder and nicer reasoning that motivates her sardonic and calculating nature. This can be a tricky road to walk down though, as I have seen some of my favorite writers screw this aspect of Emma up, but down well does a nice job of distinguishing her from the majority of comic book characters who wear their hearts on their sleeves and are frankly dumb, despite whatever ranking system claiming them to be intelligent. Seeing her teach cynical life lessons to family, friends, good guys and bad guys alike is so damn funny as well when done right. Her rants at Ms Marvel, Xavier, Kimura, Mandrill being some of my fav.
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