Picture of the Day: Emma Frost

[seriousfic]

One thing I find interesting about comic books, and their fans' instinctual attempts to create order out of the chaos that results from dozens of different authors trying to write the same characters in new situations year after year, is that occasionally you get an entirely random coincidence that nonetheless reveals something about the characters.





There's a scan from Emma Frost's solo series, a 'Sweet Valley High' alike look at her origins in a more sympathetic light than usually presented (as she is the X-Men's A-list heroine now). After Grant Morrison presented a look at Emma's past in the pages of New X-Men, the Emma Frost series tried to flesh it out. As you might expect, Emma's villainy was mainly attributed to a hard knock life, but what really makes it interesting is this page from an earlier mini published while Emma was a villain.





I find it pretty fascinating; the Rise/Fall and Rebirth of Emma Frost. She starts out just as vaguely Campbellian as any of the X-Men, trying to defy the future her father prescribes by becoming a teather and leaving his wealth. Then she falls into the cycle of abuse all over again by becoming an abusive matriarch herself (in the Firestar scans, she thinks she's being the cool mom, but really she's as manipulative as her father ever was, just nicer about it... the steel fist in the velvet glove) and even becoming independently wealthy. Then she manages to work through those issues and redeem herself. Also, she's totally gay for Firestar.

Now, what you all came here to see... hardcore lesbian subtext.



Firestar, if you hear Emma say "I like snails and oysters," RUN.



She telepathically manipulates Firestar's love interest so that she is, in effect, dating Firestar herself. OH, EMMA. BE MORE GAYMO.



People, please try to convince me that second-to-last panel isn't all about Emma's desire to turn Firestar into her superpowered sex slave. You can't.

AND SHE KILLED FIRESTAR'S HORSE! That's so evil it actually loops back on itself and becomes a crowning moment of awesome (normally I'd say "make-out session on Jean's grave," but that was more Jean's doing). I DEMAND IT BE REFERENCED ALL THE TIME.

Kitty: You tortured me!

Jean: You brainwashed me!

Firestar: And you killed my horse!

Scott: Ladies, please, Emma is a reformed... wait, what was that last one?

Emma: That horse had it coming, Scott.



Did Claremont write this? Because if Claremont wrote this, YOU KNOW what he was thinking.

Comments

[distractedone.livejournal.com]

*DIES* Cool, those are my scans. I could totally tell with the way I cropped/formatted them. *DIES* I loved the Firestar series. It was SO full of CRACK.

Have you seen this?




*DIIIES* I laugh so much at that scan and I don't even know why.

[museofspeed.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, Emma is a manipulative bitch! And yeah...that's pretty damn gay...