I have a different perspective, obviously, but I don’t really think so. You’re talking about two stories out of the 75 or so we publish every month—that’s not really enough for a trend.And I also come at this from the point of view that I want to treat all of the characters in the same manner, regardless of their gender, their orientation, their nationality or their heritage. It’s a stone-cold fact that bad things are going to happen to super heroes in super hero comics—without those stakes, you wouldn’t be interested in them. So my yardstick always boils down to: would I do this to Spider-Man, or Captain America? Given that we have in both cases, I don’t see it as anything more than strange timing, where these stories are hitting these crescendos at the same moment where there’s a lot of (justified) talk going on about the portrayal of women in comics. But I don’t think any of this makes Rick Remender a misogynist, I think it makes him a super hero writer.
Nah, killing off Spidey and Cap aren’t equal to killing off Rogue, Wanda and Sharon. Maybe down the line the story will end up being Rogue’s and Wanda’s, but for now it seems to be for Mags and Cap. As it has been stated in interviews that Cap will feel guilty for dividing the team that lead to their deaths, and Mags of course will be in issue #18. Sharon’s most definitely was for Cap’s sorrow. Spidey is still very much a part of his book since it’s part of his consciousness that keeps Otto on the side of good.
When you have five men in a book and three women and you kill off two of the women, it is gonna have a bigger impact than the one guy you had just disappear back into ion energy, just to try to avoid the fridging accusations.
So far there’s been no special funeral issue for Sharon, nothing for Rogue in X-Men. No heroes going on about all the things they did. Blah, Blah Blah…
So this is just another lame excuse in a long line for these sort of troubling things comics likes to do. Shows that the lesson will never be learned.
