Not picking on Jed MacKay, this was just next in the pile! From 2021,
Black Cat #10, "Infinity Score, part 3" Written by Jed MacKay, art by C.F. Villa, color art by Brian Reber. I had this variant, that wasn't in the GCD, by Ema Lupacchino and Brian Reber.
Although this was the last issue of this series, it wasn't the end of the storyline: it would wrap up in
Giant-Size Black Cat #1: Felicia was after the Infinity Stones, which were currently embedded in people, giving them powers, even if she didn't think much of them. Nick Fury was after her, as well as Nighthawk this issue: not the classic, but the new one from Coulson and Mephisto's Squadron Supreme! Nighthawk remembered the
Heroes Reborn universe (not that one, the other one...man, comics sometimes) and Felicia from it. He tries to sway her, to bring back what he considered a better world; maybe with them as a couple? But, Nighthawk also uses the past tense, when talking about her mom, so no deal. (Which is weird, because Felicia is
such a daddy's girl; I don't think I knew she had contact with her mom. I thought at best it was like Daredevil's mom, if not Bambi's...)
Fury isn't quite trying to murder Felicia--yet--but absolutely can't have those two working together, since he didn't want to "wake up living in the
United States of Nighthawk or some damn thing." But, she's saved by Odessa, who I had not seen before: she forces Fury off with a rocket launcher. Odessa appears to be part of some guild, presumably thieves'? I don't know if it's the same thieves' guild seen in Gambit books, either. She's breaking some rules to help Felicia, who's trying to stall for time, that Odessa will probably cave and give to her; but there was at least one other miscreant with an Infinity Stone out there...(Odessa also seemed to have ninjas, who drop back for her and Felicia's conversation, like they did not want in on that drama!)
This wasn't bad, although not as good as Felicia's current book! After this series, I think she had multiple ones with Mary Jane, as Jackpot or just herself.
4 comments:
Dang, Felicia really isn’t that lucky. How did it take until 2019 to get a regular solo series? And it looks like nothing she’s headlined went over a dozen issues. Catwoman’s had 4 solo series that went past 50, and most of them went over 75.
Odessa was leader of the New York branch of the Thieves Guild; she and Felicia end up having a thing for a while. For Odessa, it seems like she's lived with a lot of responsibilities and expectations, and found Felicia's habit of just doing whatever she wanted appealing. I think Felicia just thought Odessa was hot, which, fair.
Hard disagree about the current book Black Cat book being better than this. It feels like G. Willow Wilson just replaced the names on a Harley Quinn pitch she had, between the breaking the 4th wall and Felicia suddenly being a complete idiot. I gave up on it after the most recent issue. No interest in reading about an incompetent Black Cat.
I for one wasn’t a big fan of making Felicia or Selina mob bosses, especially in Felicia’s case, since it felt like a lazy copying of Selina’s run as a mob boss.
I chalk it up to not enough people consistently buying her solo books. Sure she’s interesting, but apparently the perception is she makes for a better supporting character than a main one 🤷♂️
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