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Women of Marvel (one-shots) #2
Women Of Marvel (2022) #1
CELEBRATE THE PHENOMENAL WOMEN OF MARVEL WITH TALES SPUN FROM THE GREATEST MINDS IN COMICS! The talented women creators who have made Marvel the powerhouse that it is take on fan-favorite female characters within the Marvel Universe. From seasoned veterans to up-and-coming talent, this cast of writers and artists gives their own spin on beloved heroines, showing the fire, mystery, grace and joy that makes them phenomenal women. With superstar creators Charlie Jane Anders, Mirka Andolfo, Jordie Bellaire and many more, this issue is another must-have from the Voices pull list!
50 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 9, 2022
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About the author
Charlie Jane Anders
163 books4,059 followersMy latest book is Victories Greater Than Death. Coming in August: Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories.
Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.
Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.
I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies.
I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz.
Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.
I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.
Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.
Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.
I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies.
I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz.
Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.
I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.
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March 12, 2022
Most of the women on the cover aren't actually in this issue.
Someone made the decision to feature Black Cat in little interludes between various short stories, and that's supposed to tie this title together. It doesn't, really. There is no broad theme or interconnecting story. We watch Jessica Jones hang out with someone in rehab, Black Widow and Squirrel Girl team up for a little ludicrous humor story, and Shanna the She-Devil team up with Silver Sable for a jungle adventure.
I can't stand more than half of these characters. Someone chose to feature some of the least powerful women in Marvel comics, even though you would think that this title would be trying for a female empowerment message. There are some cosmically powerful women who could destroy the world all on their own (Rachel Summers, Meggan Braddock, Sersi, Scarlet Witch, Sienna Blaze, Threnody, etc.), but the people who put this together instead opted to feature some of the weakest female characters they could find.
... Okay, fine. Scarlet Witch does have a short. But the writer doesn't even attempt to address the continuity conundrum of Wanda's powers when someone asks her to teach her magic; instead, Wanda just says she couldn't if she wanted to. Which, yeah. Wanda's powers were mutant in nature for decades, and it is only recently writers fucked around with her history to make her no longer a mutant, and then tried to emphasize the magical nature of her powers over biological, even though she never studied magic all that much.
Also, since when did Shanna have nature powers? I don't really follow her because her whole family is just a lame Tarzan ripoff, but this is new information for me.
Nothing earth-shattering. You might enjoy this title as a diversion, but it's really not great at showing women being powerful. It does show a small collection of women being competent, or working together. But it's not going to the change the mind of the Patriarchy.
Someone made the decision to feature Black Cat in little interludes between various short stories, and that's supposed to tie this title together. It doesn't, really. There is no broad theme or interconnecting story. We watch Jessica Jones hang out with someone in rehab, Black Widow and Squirrel Girl team up for a little ludicrous humor story, and Shanna the She-Devil team up with Silver Sable for a jungle adventure.
I can't stand more than half of these characters. Someone chose to feature some of the least powerful women in Marvel comics, even though you would think that this title would be trying for a female empowerment message. There are some cosmically powerful women who could destroy the world all on their own (Rachel Summers, Meggan Braddock, Sersi, Scarlet Witch, Sienna Blaze, Threnody, etc.), but the people who put this together instead opted to feature some of the weakest female characters they could find.
... Okay, fine. Scarlet Witch does have a short. But the writer doesn't even attempt to address the continuity conundrum of Wanda's powers when someone asks her to teach her magic; instead, Wanda just says she couldn't if she wanted to. Which, yeah. Wanda's powers were mutant in nature for decades, and it is only recently writers fucked around with her history to make her no longer a mutant, and then tried to emphasize the magical nature of her powers over biological, even though she never studied magic all that much.
Also, since when did Shanna have nature powers? I don't really follow her because her whole family is just a lame Tarzan ripoff, but this is new information for me.
Nothing earth-shattering. You might enjoy this title as a diversion, but it's really not great at showing women being powerful. It does show a small collection of women being competent, or working together. But it's not going to the change the mind of the Patriarchy.
June 15, 2022
The stories themselves ranged from okay to great, but most of the women on the cover sadly didn’t even appear in said stories.
Marvel also doesn’t print these anthology collections in a cardstock book like DC does, and it really does make the difference for a book like this.
So meh, I liked the stories but I wish Marvel spent more money on the quality of printing for issues like this. DC really goes all out, and it does read so much better.
Marvel also doesn’t print these anthology collections in a cardstock book like DC does, and it really does make the difference for a book like this.
So meh, I liked the stories but I wish Marvel spent more money on the quality of printing for issues like this. DC really goes all out, and it does read so much better.
March 16, 2022
This was just okay. None of the stories were anything to write home about and the Black Cat frame story made no sense to any of the other stories in here. The writing and the art were all workmanlike but that's about it. It wasn't great. I wasn't bad. It just... was.
March 24, 2022
The Scarlet Witch story really had potential but fell flat. The Black Cat one shots between stories were cool. Overall this is nothing to write home about.
March 19, 2022
This was just okay, but I’m still glad I got it! I bought it because Squirrel Girl was in it, but some of the other characters included I had never heard of before were interesting! I’m hoping this is a sign of another Squirrel Girl run in the near future. I didn’t love the way she looked in here, but I would gladly get used to that for more stories about her!
March 10, 2022
why is literally no one on the cover (outside of felicia) not in the comic 😭😭
March 17, 2022
Some nice stories. I like that they used Black Cat as the runner throughout the book
March 18, 2022
women are real..
March 25, 2022
This was a bit of a mixed bag. A few great stories but quite a lot fell flat for me.
May 10, 2023
i love women in marvel but i wish there was more black widow parts
December 23, 2024
J'adore les héroïnes Marvel, pourtant ce comic était boff sans plus. Des shorts stories pas pertinentes plus que ça.. un peu déçue.
August 11, 2023
So I’m a huge Black Cat fan and was absolutely pleased when she had her own little story weaved though this collection (kind of recommend reading through that first before the other stories because it flows better. Other than that I really enjoyed seeing more from current ladies that are currently running around in the MCU. I do wish that this collection had a little more stories included just for diversity sake but otherwise it was still a fun group of stories.
April 11, 2022
It was nice to see the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (and Nancy Whitehead) again. This time going up against the tropes of super heroes having to put their own needs aside in order to save humanity. Not for the best Marvel Super Hero ever. No! She has a lesson to teach Black Widow as they face down a villain with only an hour to get their CompSci project finished.
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