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Day #30: Your favorite Marvel Event
Avengers Disassembled

Avengers Disassembled was a turning point — for the Avengers, for Marvel, and for me. Real discoveries come from chaos.

Day #29: Your favorite series you would suggest to read
Hawkeye and Mockingbird

I expect everyone knows my favourite series overall is Brian Reed’s Ms. Marvel. And I do suggest everyone read it (though I also acknowledge not everyone will like it). But I want to suggest an ongoing and one that is simpler to jump into (and everyone is already reading New Avengers, right?). Hawkeye and Mockingbird has only just begun (it’s at issue 3), though the characters are classic and it is a sequel to their New Avengers tie-in (Reunion).

Hawkeye is a character I usually ignore or dislike. He’s been written too often as the smartass archer with a chip on his shoulder and the delusion that he was never awarded what he should be. Which is a character flaw I love in Anakin Skywalker. But I met Anakin as Vader and I fell in love with him in Return of the Jedi, when he chose his son over everything else and defined love for me (I was seven). Clint hasn’t had that redemptive story arc — he’s complained about being a disappointment to himself and others but he’s never seemed to do anything to make up for it, he just whined. Usually while acting smug and superior. And was sometimes rewarded for it. Like — oh, you’re right, you’ve grown so much, have a team to run. But it was always just said. He didn’t DO anything other than whine. Maybe I am not reading the right Hawkeye stories, but that has been my impression.

But a bunch of people I respect said that not only was this comic good but I personally would like it (and that Clint and Bobbi are secretly playacting Burn Notice, which I love). And they were right. I dig the storytelling, I love Bobbi, and this is the Clint I want to read. So as far as current Marvel series I am reading and enjoying and would suggest to others (and everyone is already reading New Avengers, right?), that’s my answer.

 Day #28: Your favorite comic time period
“People don’t talk that way anymore…”

I think my most honest answer to this question is “the present” because one of my favourite things about comics is that they continue. There is no happy or unhappy ending, it always goes on, just like life. But that said, if I may wax nostalgic a moment and borrow a few lines from National Treasure :

There’s a line here that’s at the heart of all the others. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.” People don’t talk that way any more.

Beautiful. No idea what you said.

It means, if there’s something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

I’m the type to always look forward. But I’m also a sucker for wide-eyed idealism.

Day #27: Your favorite non-human race
Kree

Day #26: Your favorite elementalist
The Storm Siblings

Whatever this even means. But if I follow, then Sue and Johnny are absolutely my answer. Probably because I have three younger brothers myself, I love stories that explore sibling relationships (and all familial relationships, blood or found). Johnny is that character I spend most of the time wanting to slap or roll my eyes at and the rest of the time begrudgingly admiring and adoring, and Sue has grown from token girl to a force to be reckoned with without losing sight of her femininity and Big Sister (or maternal) instincts.

Like any comic book character, they can be and have been mishandled, but the core characters of and relationship between these two — elementalists — I honestly adore.

Day #25: Your favorite video game
{Insert Superhero Dating Sim Here}

Day #24: Your favorite cartoon adaptation
Iron Man: Armored Adventures