This miniseries starts with Tony picking Patsy to serve as the Initiative’s representative in Alaska…
Issue one is mostly banter and set up, but it’s masterfully scripted and wonderfully drawn. Every page feels alive and joyful…They even figured out a novel way to handle the recap page:
Once in Alaska, the native wildlife goes magically crazy and Patsy has to fight a bunch of animals.
Patsy is a character who has literally gone to Hell and back, so having her face mystic threats is perfectly fine–even though she’s basically just a chick with claws. And another thing that makes this series great: She handles it herself. No help from Doctor Strange.
It’s also terrific in the way it plays with Hellcat’s “nobody” status. It did it so much, much better than the contemporary DC Aquaman reboot, which relied on nasty sarcasm about how lame Aquaman is–whereas this book shows Patsy as oblivious to the fact that she’s an unknown. In fact, her self-promotion and ego does more than fly in the face of her lack of fame…It almost seems like a reaction to it.
Silly, joyful, cute, wonderful…More comics should be this fun.