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[musesfool]

You guys, you guys, with everything I read, I only love Bucky Barnes more. I do not know how this is possible, but it's what happening. I wish I could articulate better why, but he's just... awesome. Angsty and rash and a little hilarious and did I mention the

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[dancinguniverse]

So I had never even heard of Arana until just the other day, when I was reading this article about good portrayals of racial minorities over at Comics Alliance. And now you mention her again, so I figure I should link, but the part about Anya is below.

SPIDER-GIRL: Anya Corazon, created by Fiona Avery and Mark Brooks back in 2004, has had a long history over the course of the past seven years. She began life as Araña, a mystically-powered superhero who was only thematically related to Spider-Man. She worked for a secret organization, fought another organization, and juggled her secret life with her social life. Pretty basic stuff, and really just okay in execution.

Strangely, Anya's adventures took off after she lost her powers. Paul Tobin and Clayton Henry established her as your friendly neighborhood Spider-Girl in an eight-issue series that concluded earlier this year. They hooked her up with a new black costume, shook her up status quo, showed just how capable she was even as a baseline human, and actually turned me into a believer. Anya is sticking around, and is due to headline Spider-Island: The Amazing Spider-Girl, a miniseries that launches this month.

[musesfool]

Thanks for the link. I'm kind of sad there was no mention at all of either Jaime Reyes or Renee Montoya, but it was interesting. And so far, I like Anya a lot.

[dancinguniverse]

Yeah, a few people in the comments were pointing out the lack of Jaime, which seems weird. And I think it's odd to count Damien honestly, since in everything I've read, they seem to ignore/forgot about his mom, except that she's a bad guy. I'm not up to date on my Batman and Robin though, so maybe I'm wrong there.

[musesfool]

I think his point in mentioning Damian is that he is of mixed race but it's not a big deal to anyone - his issues in fitting in have to do with being raised as an assassin, not his ethnicity. Of course, that could be because the writers have no idea he actually is, so I think the guy writing the article is giving them too much credit.

edited for clarity