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Strange words from super folk
With dirty words so much a piece of everyday life, maybe it just seems silly to use funny symbols in place of profanity. And then some comics writers make you wish the characters would go back to using ampersands and hash marks to mark their displeasure.
In Marvel's "Mighty Avengers #25," out last week, two of the greatest minds among the super-hero set nearly come to blows (and I'll bet Thor's hammer they will by next issue!). Yes, readers saw super-scientist Hank Pym (also known over the years as Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket and The Wasp) throw a hissy fit at big brain Reed Richards (also know as Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four). The source of the dispute? Some stolen technology that Pym developed and that Reed won't give back.
How does Hank handle the situation? He tells putty-faced Reed that "It's on, bitch." Or something like that.
"It's on, bitch?" Really? Is that what counts as dialogue these days in comics? Because for a minute there, I thought Serena and Blair were about to throw down in an episode of "Gossip Girl."
It's great that comics writers now have the freedom to use grittier speech. But this kind of stuff makes me yearn for the days when a villian might be struck by a Batarang and promptly utter the phrase "@$%#*&!" I mean, let Hank Pym say something like "It's my tech and I'm coming to get it back." Which in fact he and his team promptly did.
The only side benefit of such tomfoolery is that "Mighty Avengers," which boasts an A-list name but a Z-list team, will continue to stay on my "buy" list, at least for another month or two. I'd like to see if these guys can beat the Fantastic Four. But I hope they'll do it with better word choice.
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