"Black Cat (2025 Ongoing Series)" Talkback (Spoilers)

[wonderfly]

The "on again/off again" Spider-Man love interest gets her own ongoing title!!

Black Cat #1

Writer: G. Willow Wilson
Artist: Gleb Melnikov

Synopsis: Super-thief, super... Hero?! Felicia Hardy is the Black Cat, the world's slyest and most skilled super-thief! She loves a good score. The longer the odds — the better! But her entire world turned upside down after the Amazing Spider-Man's battle with Hellgate, so Felicia is turning over a new leaf as New York City's newest... super hero?! The first super villain on her list — the Lizard! But will the Black Cat risk it all after her do-gooding moral high ground attracts dangerous attention from the lowest of the city's underworld? Easy, Kingpin of Crime, she's still skimming off the top — honest! Superstar G. Willow Wilson joins rising star Gleb Melnikov to chart the winding road of twists and turns, laughs and mind-bending action of Black Cat's next exciting chapter!

Discuss this new ongoing comic below!!

 

[Breakfast Master]

Didn't quite like this one sadly, the tone is just too light-hearted for what had previously been a pretty serious development with Felicia and Spidey in the wake of Hellgate. Felicia's handling of it in Kelly's Amazing Spider-Man and how it's dealt with here all in the same week are night and day. Not a fan of Felicia's motivations for heroism when she's been fairly heroic in the past without much other provocation.

 

[wonderfly]

Didn't quite like this one sadly, the tone is just too light-hearted for what had previously been a pretty serious development with Felicia and Spidey in the wake of Hellgate. Felicia's handling of it in Kelly's Amazing Spider-Man and how it's dealt with here all in the same week are night and day. Not a fan of Felicia's motivations for heroism when she's been fairly heroic in the past without much other provocation.

Midly curious, Breakfast Master: How do you buy your comics? Digitally or at a local comic shop each week?

G. Willow Wilson is a great writer, but I was concerned it would be a bit too "Black Cat is now a hero".

 

[Breakfast Master]

Midly curious, Breakfast Master: How do you buy your comics? Digitally or at a local comic shop each week?

I have a store local to where I am.

I normally like Wilson's books, but her approach to this is a bit unlike her.

 

[wonderfly]

Black Cat #2

Writer: G. Willow Wilson
Artist: Gleb Melnikov

Synopsis: FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD... BLACK CAT?! FELICIA HARDY is a changed woman. She's STOPPING robberies instead of planning them. But all her super heroing is leaving a trail of wronged super villains in her wake. Lizard. Sandman. Tombstone. The list's getting longer by the day. And it's only a matter of time before those nine lives of hers run out...

Discuss this comic below!!