Post Awesome Things Month: Awesome Comic Ladies Picspam
So, chaila43 has made this a month of Posting Awesome Things. And since while things are mostly good over here I am super stressed and busy all the time, I think this is a GREAT IDEA, and everyone should do it.
The theme of my Posting Awesome Things post (note the singular, as I'm not sure I'll have time to do another before the end of the month) is all the amazing comic ladies I've fallen in love with over the past several months. This is also partially in honor of beccatoria and her most fantastic post on Wonder Woman. I thought - oh look, an amazing Wonder Woman picspam! But wait! What about all those other awesome ladies I adore in comics? AHA I know what I shall do. (P.S. go look at that Wonder Woman picspam. You will come out wanting to read ALL THE WONDER WOMAN, EVER.)
Please note, this is going to be long and VERY image-intensive. I like a lot of women in comics. I'll do my best to group it and and give a quick background on the ladies.
As a prelude - comics frequently suck in regard to ladies. They screw them over time and time again. Hell, comics is where the phrase "women in refrigerators" originates from. Yeah.
But sometimes they get it right. And sometimes they don't but you still utterly fall in love with the characters they create. So this is my tribute to (just a few) of the amazing ladies of comics. Guys, I can't even begin to describe how much I love all these ladies. They are fantastic. And I am more than happy to give recs of what to read with them in it!
Birds of Prey (DC)
An all-female (or almost entirely - there's been one guy as a part of the team and a few male guest stars) covert team run by Oracle (Barbara Gordon, formerly Batgirl). I'm just going to go with the primary field team - Black Canary (Dinah Lance), Oracle's first and most constant partner, most likely one of the top three martial artists in the DCU (it's been stated in canon that she could beat Batman). Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake), a former WWII pilot who accidentally time traveled to current day at some point and is the team's wings and backup. Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), least sanctioned of the Gotham vigilantes and yet simultaneously one of the most awesome. I'm also going to go ahead and include Shiva under this, due to her connection with Black Canary, even though Shiva's technically a villain.
She.. actually can.
Huntress, sometimes terrifying scary.
Shivaaaaaa. The Sensei & Student arc of Birds of Prey vol. 1 is fantastic.
Please note that Huntress just drew water in Shiva's face.
Please note that this is Shiva. Batman is scared to fight Shiva, guys. Huntress is made of steel.
Batman asked Huntress to look after Gotham for him while he's gone.
Zinda Blake puts a photo of her and Big Barda on the wall of fallen heroes after Big Barda's death. In the background, note that you can see Zinda in another photo, presumably put up after her friends in that photo died. Zindaaaaa, my darling.
Young Avengers (Marvel)
It's a whole team, but the ladies of the team are Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) and Stature (Cassandra Lang). Hawkeye's an unpowered archer with immense will, and Stature has the ability to change her size. I really love them both and their friendship. (Also guest starring one picture of Jessica Jones, formerly the superheroine Jewel, then Knightress, then an investigative reporter and detective with powers married to Luke Cage). I highly recommend the Young Avengers series, what little there is of it. It's really, really good.
Their first meeting!
JESSICA JONES, MY HEART.
JLI (DC)
Justice League International is a really great team, which in the recent run had two female members - Fire and Ice, also known respectively as Beatriz da Costa and Tora Olafsdotter. They are the bestest of best friends and both totally fantastic. The new Justice League International is one of the books coming up in DCnU that I'm actually looking forward to, and will apparently also feature the utterly fantastic Vixen (Mari McCabe) and potentially one other lady.
X-Factor (Marvel)
X-Factor is a detective agency that deals specifically with mutant problems, and is composed of mutants and ex-mutants. I highly, highly recommend it for anybody, and love it an immense amount. It's ladies are - Theresa Cassidy (formerly Siryn, currently Banshee), whose sonic scream is essentially a weapon of mass destruction. Monet St. Croix (M), haughty, self-obsessed, very powerful, and secretly a heart of gold. Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), a dour Scotswoman, staunch Catholic, and sort of werewolf who wants to save everyone. Layla Miller (sometimes known as Butterfly), mutant power sort of unknown, incredibly mysterious, really cool (there won't be much of her in this picspam because she is super spoilery). It's also got Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, who can create duplicates of himself, Guido, the Strong Guy, and Rictor, an ex-mutant who used to be able to shake the earth. Its membership waxes and wanes a bit later, but those seven are its original, core members. Longshot, Darwin, and Shatterstar all sort of join later. (Guys, DARWIN.) Seriously, read it. Its great.
Rictor is one of her oldest friends. If there's someone out there who's allowed to yell at him like this when he's considering suicide, it's totally Rahne.
Things of note: this is after she killed someone by leaving a few screws out, the water on. A thing of water fell on him and then he got electrocuted. Layla - sort of terrifying, but awesome.
MONET, DARLING.
SIRYYYYYYN.
Batgirls (DC)
Under this heading falls Barbara Gordon, first Batgirl and subsequently incredibly intelligent info jock Oracle after she was paralyzed. Cassandra Cain, the second Batgirl and currently Blackbat, a girl who was raised without an understanding of language and as the perfect killing machine who can read body language. Stephanie Brown, formerly Spoiler, the fourth Robin, and currently (not for much longer) the third Batgirl, who always gets back up. I've got them in all of their costumes. Stephanie's blonde, Barbara's got red hair, and Cassandra has black hair. That's the easiest way to tell them apart. I think the only time you can't see their hair is when Cassandra's wearing her Batgirl costume, which is the only Batgirl outfit with a full cowl, and when Stephanie is in her Spoiler costume, which is the only purple one. I left this grouping almost for last because they're my absolute favorites - Cassandra (and then Stephanie) got me into comics, really. And therefore I have like 28 pictures in this section, almost entirely of Cass and Stephanie, the Batgirls of my heart. I'm sorry! They are just REALLY fantastic people.
This is the moment I fell in love with Stephanie (Cassandra I fell in love with like half an issue into her run). Or, more specifically, it was two pages later, after Cassandra had beaten Stephanie horribly. Stephanie threw up, got back up, and said cheerfully, "So, same time tomorrow?" Stephanie Brown: won't bow, doesn't know how. And Cassandra smiled. (Also, the water bottle has a bat symbol.)
HEY HEY check out Cassandra Cain, avoiding every one of Batman's blows effortlessly! OH YEAH.
You'll find that a running theme here is Stephanie Brown not giving a damn what Batman says.
or making fun of him! She likes to make fun of him.
I love how effective she is. She's not a good speaker, her vocabulary's not that great, but she uses every word to great effect. Chocolate. One word to let that FBI agent know that he can do whatever he likes. She'll still beat him.
Stephanie Brown - incorrigibly happy. <333
Barbara, trying to help Cassandra get over her dislike of detectivework. Cassandra still holds that beating people up a lot is just so much easier.
Barbara, you DARLING.
Cassandra Cain believes in redemption.
Batgirls, talking in snark. :)
DREAM BATMAN, DREAM BATMAN. SHE SHOULD BE BATMAN, SHE WOULD BE THE BEST BATMAN EVER.
oh wait, that is Bruce Wayne Stephanie's slapping! heh.
GIRLFRIENDS.
Cassandra Cain as Blackbat! still badass, still kicking, still the best Batman ever.
YOU TELL HIM STEPHANIE.
Girlfriends picking on Superboy, who totally deserves it.
INCORRIGIBLE.
Some of you may not known Damian Wayne. He is a hellion. An adorable, totally understandable one who I love to pieces, but a hellion nonetheless. Stephanie's gift is love and hope, given freely and endlessly, and she extends that to Damian, who everyone else in the Batfamily other than Dick has been kind of awful to. Guys, she takes him to a trampoline bounce because she's so sad that he had no childhood. He is a child, and she may be the only person to actually see him as such and attempt to give him back a little of what he's missing. (There has been Cassandra and Damian interaction in Gates of Gotham! I want MORE. I want them to be just as awesome together as I suspect they will be.)
Cassandra's loyalty is to the symbol, to the offer of redemption and hope it extends. She and Stephanie are VERY alike in that regard.
STEPHANIE BROWN MAKES FUN OF BATMAN AGAIN.
Cassandra tries SO hard. FLAWLESS PERFECT BATMAN.
PERFECT EGGPLANT PRINCESS.
GIRLFRIENDS.
HEY HEY GUESS WHO SHOULD BE ROBIN TO CASSANDRA CAIN'S BATMAN? STEPHANIE BROWN, THAT'S WHO. BEST TEAM UP EVER, Y/Y/MFY/FTW.
so remember when I was talking about how Batman is scared to fight Shiva earlier? YEAH. CASSANDRA CAIN JUST BEAT HER.
AND GONE, SO GONE, OH GOD I CAN'T EVEN.
BEST GIRLFRIENDS TO EVER GIRLFRIEND, BEST BATMAN AND ROBIN TO EVER BATMAN AND ROBIN, BEST PERFECT EGGPLANT PRINCESS AND FLAWLESS BATMAN, ETC. ETC. ETC. I'M SORRY I CAN'T STOP CAPSLOCKING ABOUT THEM.
Miscellaneous (DC & Marvel)
DC. Anissa Pierce (Thunder) and Grace Choi (no codename). Anissa can manipulate her own body density, and Grace is super super strong. Later, they are girlfriends! Found primarily in the Outsiders series. Fantastic people. They've been pretty absent from comics recently, which SUCKS. And yes, that is them stopping an airplane with the sheer force of their awesome.
DC. Madame Xanadu, also known as Nimue Inwudu, an extremely powerful and essentially immortal magician. She has her own, essentially entire stand-alone 27 issue series. You should check it out - the art is by Amy Reeder and is gorgeous, and the plots are great. As well, Nimue's a really brilliant bisexual character. I love reading about her.
DC. Miss Martian/M'gann M'orzz/Megan Morse. I first started loving her from the Young Justice series (which obliquely got me into comics, and is a really fun show so far). Unfortunately, she's not in very many comics right now, and I haven't backtracked to her run in the Teen Titans yet. What I do know is that the few times I've seen her around, she's been great.
DC. Traci 13. Magician, very intelligent, and one of the reasons Blue Beetle volume 2 is so much fun. (It's a great volume! Jaime's a guy, so he's not in this picspam, but he's a really fun character and his supporting cast is really fantastic and includes a lot of very different females. The first 25 issues are possibly the best origin story for a super hero I've ever read.)
DC. Big Barda. THE BEST. Seriously, that is all I have to say on her, because sadly I haven't read much that she's in, but I ADORE every bit of her I've had the pleasure of seeing. BARDA.
Marvel. Lady Jacqueline Falsworth Crichton, also known as Spitfire. A speedster who also happens to accidentally be a vampire! I don't know much of her, but she is in the (sadly short lived) Captain Britain and the MI-13 series. And she's pretty cool.
Marvel. Doctor Faiza Hussain, also known as Excalibur. Oh man, let me gush about Faiza for a moment here. She was introduced in Captain Britain & the MI-13. She's been criminally underused since then, but what there is of her is SO great. She was a British superhero fan and doctor who got caught up in the front ranks fighting against the Skrull invasion and got knocked out by one of their weapons. When she woke up, she had the ability to literally disassemble and put back together people's bodies, as well as immobilize them. Shortly afterwards, Excalibur chose her as its bearer, and she joined MI-13. Her faith is important to her, she plays crickets, she's ridiculously excited to be a superhero and among all these people she's fangirled over for so long, and she's very brave. You should definitely read her series. <3
Marvel. Meggan Puceanu, also known as Gloriana. I do not know a great deal about her - she's Marvel, which I haven't read much of. Of her early history, I simply know that she was an empathetic shapeshifter, which gave her a very sucky childhood, and that eventually she married Captain Britain and was happy for a brief time before she died. (I am not sure what killed her.) What I do know is what she did in hell, which is that she kicked ass. It's actually where she gets her codename - she never had one before she died, felt that she didn't deserve it. But she gave people in hell the feeling of happiness for the first time in a long time, and they called her Gloriana. What little I have read of her shows that she is a marvelous character, and I hope to find more of her when I have time and read it all.
DC. Kate Spencer (a.k.a. Manhunter), a DA who had one too many supervillains succesfully make themselves sympathetic in court and proceeded to steal an awesome suit and boomstick from the evidence locker and beat people up. She's very good at it. I love her. Also, that art is just so freaking good.
DC. Artemis of the Bana-Mighdall, an Amazon, and I beliiieve that should be Cassie Sandsmark, the second Wonder Girl, though I don't know the context of this page and therefore can't say for sure. I just really love that she braided a rope out of her hair, okay?
DC. Big Barda & Wonder Woman. <333
Marvel. Nico Minoru, of the Runaways series. (I really really super recommend this series.) Perfect? Yes Nico, yes you are. The Runaways are a group of six kids who discovered their parents were evil and trying to destroy the world and banded up together to run away and stop their parents. Nico is one of the oldest and after the first run becomes the leader.
Marvel. Molly Hayes, mutant with super strength. Why yes, she is lifting up a dinosaur. Uh huh. :D She is tiny and only 12 and adorable and fantastic. Seriously, just read Runaways. It's really hard not to spoil for it.
Marvel. Karolina Dean & Xavin. THIS IS GONNA BE SUPER SPOILERY. Karolina Dean, the glowy girl, was one of the original Runaways. She discovered that she and her parents were aliens fueled by the sun, and that she could do some pretty cool stuff. Later on in the series Xavin (the other girl in the picture) showed up, a Skrull who had been betrothed to Karolina by Karolina's parents years ago, and who had now come to convince Karolina that their marriage was possibly the only thing that could save their planets from a war. Xavin originally held a male form, but when Karolina said that she wasn't attracted to males and wouldn't marry a guy, Xavin was like "I am a shapeshifter, gender is no big deal for me." It does later cause some confusion for Xavin, when she's trying to figure out who she is. Seriously just read Runaways it is so fantastic and Xavin/Karolina is a beautiful ship.
The theme of my Posting Awesome Things post (note the singular, as I'm not sure I'll have time to do another before the end of the month) is all the amazing comic ladies I've fallen in love with over the past several months. This is also partially in honor of beccatoria and her most fantastic post on Wonder Woman. I thought - oh look, an amazing Wonder Woman picspam! But wait! What about all those other awesome ladies I adore in comics? AHA I know what I shall do. (P.S. go look at that Wonder Woman picspam. You will come out wanting to read ALL THE WONDER WOMAN, EVER.)
Please note, this is going to be long and VERY image-intensive. I like a lot of women in comics. I'll do my best to group it and and give a quick background on the ladies.
As a prelude - comics frequently suck in regard to ladies. They screw them over time and time again. Hell, comics is where the phrase "women in refrigerators" originates from. Yeah.
But sometimes they get it right. And sometimes they don't but you still utterly fall in love with the characters they create. So this is my tribute to (just a few) of the amazing ladies of comics. Guys, I can't even begin to describe how much I love all these ladies. They are fantastic. And I am more than happy to give recs of what to read with them in it!
Birds of Prey (DC)
An all-female (or almost entirely - there's been one guy as a part of the team and a few male guest stars) covert team run by Oracle (Barbara Gordon, formerly Batgirl). I'm just going to go with the primary field team - Black Canary (Dinah Lance), Oracle's first and most constant partner, most likely one of the top three martial artists in the DCU (it's been stated in canon that she could beat Batman). Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake), a former WWII pilot who accidentally time traveled to current day at some point and is the team's wings and backup. Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), least sanctioned of the Gotham vigilantes and yet simultaneously one of the most awesome. I'm also going to go ahead and include Shiva under this, due to her connection with Black Canary, even though Shiva's technically a villain.
She.. actually can.
Huntress, sometimes terrifying scary.
Shivaaaaaa. The Sensei & Student arc of Birds of Prey vol. 1 is fantastic.
Please note that Huntress just drew water in Shiva's face.
Please note that this is Shiva. Batman is scared to fight Shiva, guys. Huntress is made of steel.
Batman asked Huntress to look after Gotham for him while he's gone.
Zinda Blake puts a photo of her and Big Barda on the wall of fallen heroes after Big Barda's death. In the background, note that you can see Zinda in another photo, presumably put up after her friends in that photo died. Zindaaaaa, my darling.
Young Avengers (Marvel)
It's a whole team, but the ladies of the team are Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) and Stature (Cassandra Lang). Hawkeye's an unpowered archer with immense will, and Stature has the ability to change her size. I really love them both and their friendship. (Also guest starring one picture of Jessica Jones, formerly the superheroine Jewel, then Knightress, then an investigative reporter and detective with powers married to Luke Cage). I highly recommend the Young Avengers series, what little there is of it. It's really, really good.
Their first meeting!
JESSICA JONES, MY HEART.
JLI (DC)
Justice League International is a really great team, which in the recent run had two female members - Fire and Ice, also known respectively as Beatriz da Costa and Tora Olafsdotter. They are the bestest of best friends and both totally fantastic. The new Justice League International is one of the books coming up in DCnU that I'm actually looking forward to, and will apparently also feature the utterly fantastic Vixen (Mari McCabe) and potentially one other lady.
X-Factor (Marvel)
X-Factor is a detective agency that deals specifically with mutant problems, and is composed of mutants and ex-mutants. I highly, highly recommend it for anybody, and love it an immense amount. It's ladies are - Theresa Cassidy (formerly Siryn, currently Banshee), whose sonic scream is essentially a weapon of mass destruction. Monet St. Croix (M), haughty, self-obsessed, very powerful, and secretly a heart of gold. Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), a dour Scotswoman, staunch Catholic, and sort of werewolf who wants to save everyone. Layla Miller (sometimes known as Butterfly), mutant power sort of unknown, incredibly mysterious, really cool (there won't be much of her in this picspam because she is super spoilery). It's also got Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, who can create duplicates of himself, Guido, the Strong Guy, and Rictor, an ex-mutant who used to be able to shake the earth. Its membership waxes and wanes a bit later, but those seven are its original, core members. Longshot, Darwin, and Shatterstar all sort of join later. (Guys, DARWIN.) Seriously, read it. Its great.
Rictor is one of her oldest friends. If there's someone out there who's allowed to yell at him like this when he's considering suicide, it's totally Rahne.
Things of note: this is after she killed someone by leaving a few screws out, the water on. A thing of water fell on him and then he got electrocuted. Layla - sort of terrifying, but awesome.
MONET, DARLING.
SIRYYYYYYN.
Batgirls (DC)
Under this heading falls Barbara Gordon, first Batgirl and subsequently incredibly intelligent info jock Oracle after she was paralyzed. Cassandra Cain, the second Batgirl and currently Blackbat, a girl who was raised without an understanding of language and as the perfect killing machine who can read body language. Stephanie Brown, formerly Spoiler, the fourth Robin, and currently (not for much longer) the third Batgirl, who always gets back up. I've got them in all of their costumes. Stephanie's blonde, Barbara's got red hair, and Cassandra has black hair. That's the easiest way to tell them apart. I think the only time you can't see their hair is when Cassandra's wearing her Batgirl costume, which is the only Batgirl outfit with a full cowl, and when Stephanie is in her Spoiler costume, which is the only purple one. I left this grouping almost for last because they're my absolute favorites - Cassandra (and then Stephanie) got me into comics, really. And therefore I have like 28 pictures in this section, almost entirely of Cass and Stephanie, the Batgirls of my heart. I'm sorry! They are just REALLY fantastic people.
This is the moment I fell in love with Stephanie (Cassandra I fell in love with like half an issue into her run). Or, more specifically, it was two pages later, after Cassandra had beaten Stephanie horribly. Stephanie threw up, got back up, and said cheerfully, "So, same time tomorrow?" Stephanie Brown: won't bow, doesn't know how. And Cassandra smiled. (Also, the water bottle has a bat symbol.)
HEY HEY check out Cassandra Cain, avoiding every one of Batman's blows effortlessly! OH YEAH.
You'll find that a running theme here is Stephanie Brown not giving a damn what Batman says.
or making fun of him! She likes to make fun of him.
I love how effective she is. She's not a good speaker, her vocabulary's not that great, but she uses every word to great effect. Chocolate. One word to let that FBI agent know that he can do whatever he likes. She'll still beat him.
Stephanie Brown - incorrigibly happy. <333
Barbara, trying to help Cassandra get over her dislike of detectivework. Cassandra still holds that beating people up a lot is just so much easier.
Barbara, you DARLING.
Cassandra Cain believes in redemption.
Batgirls, talking in snark. :)
DREAM BATMAN, DREAM BATMAN. SHE SHOULD BE BATMAN, SHE WOULD BE THE BEST BATMAN EVER.
oh wait, that is Bruce Wayne Stephanie's slapping! heh.
GIRLFRIENDS.
Cassandra Cain as Blackbat! still badass, still kicking, still the best Batman ever.
YOU TELL HIM STEPHANIE.
Girlfriends picking on Superboy, who totally deserves it.
INCORRIGIBLE.
Some of you may not known Damian Wayne. He is a hellion. An adorable, totally understandable one who I love to pieces, but a hellion nonetheless. Stephanie's gift is love and hope, given freely and endlessly, and she extends that to Damian, who everyone else in the Batfamily other than Dick has been kind of awful to. Guys, she takes him to a trampoline bounce because she's so sad that he had no childhood. He is a child, and she may be the only person to actually see him as such and attempt to give him back a little of what he's missing. (There has been Cassandra and Damian interaction in Gates of Gotham! I want MORE. I want them to be just as awesome together as I suspect they will be.)
Cassandra's loyalty is to the symbol, to the offer of redemption and hope it extends. She and Stephanie are VERY alike in that regard.
STEPHANIE BROWN MAKES FUN OF BATMAN AGAIN.
Cassandra tries SO hard. FLAWLESS PERFECT BATMAN.
PERFECT EGGPLANT PRINCESS.
GIRLFRIENDS.
HEY HEY GUESS WHO SHOULD BE ROBIN TO CASSANDRA CAIN'S BATMAN? STEPHANIE BROWN, THAT'S WHO. BEST TEAM UP EVER, Y/Y/MFY/FTW.
so remember when I was talking about how Batman is scared to fight Shiva earlier? YEAH. CASSANDRA CAIN JUST BEAT HER.
AND GONE, SO GONE, OH GOD I CAN'T EVEN.
BEST GIRLFRIENDS TO EVER GIRLFRIEND, BEST BATMAN AND ROBIN TO EVER BATMAN AND ROBIN, BEST PERFECT EGGPLANT PRINCESS AND FLAWLESS BATMAN, ETC. ETC. ETC. I'M SORRY I CAN'T STOP CAPSLOCKING ABOUT THEM.
Miscellaneous (DC & Marvel)
DC. Anissa Pierce (Thunder) and Grace Choi (no codename). Anissa can manipulate her own body density, and Grace is super super strong. Later, they are girlfriends! Found primarily in the Outsiders series. Fantastic people. They've been pretty absent from comics recently, which SUCKS. And yes, that is them stopping an airplane with the sheer force of their awesome.
DC. Madame Xanadu, also known as Nimue Inwudu, an extremely powerful and essentially immortal magician. She has her own, essentially entire stand-alone 27 issue series. You should check it out - the art is by Amy Reeder and is gorgeous, and the plots are great. As well, Nimue's a really brilliant bisexual character. I love reading about her.
DC. Miss Martian/M'gann M'orzz/Megan Morse. I first started loving her from the Young Justice series (which obliquely got me into comics, and is a really fun show so far). Unfortunately, she's not in very many comics right now, and I haven't backtracked to her run in the Teen Titans yet. What I do know is that the few times I've seen her around, she's been great.
DC. Traci 13. Magician, very intelligent, and one of the reasons Blue Beetle volume 2 is so much fun. (It's a great volume! Jaime's a guy, so he's not in this picspam, but he's a really fun character and his supporting cast is really fantastic and includes a lot of very different females. The first 25 issues are possibly the best origin story for a super hero I've ever read.)
DC. Big Barda. THE BEST. Seriously, that is all I have to say on her, because sadly I haven't read much that she's in, but I ADORE every bit of her I've had the pleasure of seeing. BARDA.
Marvel. Lady Jacqueline Falsworth Crichton, also known as Spitfire. A speedster who also happens to accidentally be a vampire! I don't know much of her, but she is in the (sadly short lived) Captain Britain and the MI-13 series. And she's pretty cool.
Marvel. Doctor Faiza Hussain, also known as Excalibur. Oh man, let me gush about Faiza for a moment here. She was introduced in Captain Britain & the MI-13. She's been criminally underused since then, but what there is of her is SO great. She was a British superhero fan and doctor who got caught up in the front ranks fighting against the Skrull invasion and got knocked out by one of their weapons. When she woke up, she had the ability to literally disassemble and put back together people's bodies, as well as immobilize them. Shortly afterwards, Excalibur chose her as its bearer, and she joined MI-13. Her faith is important to her, she plays crickets, she's ridiculously excited to be a superhero and among all these people she's fangirled over for so long, and she's very brave. You should definitely read her series. <3
Marvel. Meggan Puceanu, also known as Gloriana. I do not know a great deal about her - she's Marvel, which I haven't read much of. Of her early history, I simply know that she was an empathetic shapeshifter, which gave her a very sucky childhood, and that eventually she married Captain Britain and was happy for a brief time before she died. (I am not sure what killed her.) What I do know is what she did in hell, which is that she kicked ass. It's actually where she gets her codename - she never had one before she died, felt that she didn't deserve it. But she gave people in hell the feeling of happiness for the first time in a long time, and they called her Gloriana. What little I have read of her shows that she is a marvelous character, and I hope to find more of her when I have time and read it all.
DC. Kate Spencer (a.k.a. Manhunter), a DA who had one too many supervillains succesfully make themselves sympathetic in court and proceeded to steal an awesome suit and boomstick from the evidence locker and beat people up. She's very good at it. I love her. Also, that art is just so freaking good.
DC. Artemis of the Bana-Mighdall, an Amazon, and I beliiieve that should be Cassie Sandsmark, the second Wonder Girl, though I don't know the context of this page and therefore can't say for sure. I just really love that she braided a rope out of her hair, okay?
DC. Big Barda & Wonder Woman. <333
Marvel. Nico Minoru, of the Runaways series. (I really really super recommend this series.) Perfect? Yes Nico, yes you are. The Runaways are a group of six kids who discovered their parents were evil and trying to destroy the world and banded up together to run away and stop their parents. Nico is one of the oldest and after the first run becomes the leader.
Marvel. Molly Hayes, mutant with super strength. Why yes, she is lifting up a dinosaur. Uh huh. :D She is tiny and only 12 and adorable and fantastic. Seriously, just read Runaways. It's really hard not to spoil for it.
Marvel. Karolina Dean & Xavin. THIS IS GONNA BE SUPER SPOILERY. Karolina Dean, the glowy girl, was one of the original Runaways. She discovered that she and her parents were aliens fueled by the sun, and that she could do some pretty cool stuff. Later on in the series Xavin (the other girl in the picture) showed up, a Skrull who had been betrothed to Karolina by Karolina's parents years ago, and who had now come to convince Karolina that their marriage was possibly the only thing that could save their planets from a war. Xavin originally held a male form, but when Karolina said that she wasn't attracted to males and wouldn't marry a guy, Xavin was like "I am a shapeshifter, gender is no big deal for me." It does later cause some confusion for Xavin, when she's trying to figure out who she is. Seriously just read Runaways it is so fantastic and Xavin/Karolina is a beautiful ship.