Previous Post Holy fucking shit, Matt Brady is getting his dick knocked into the dirt by the blogosphere for his softball interview of Brian Michael Bendis regarding Tigra's brutal beatdown in New Avengers #35, even by Newsarama's OWN BLOG. Indeed, one blogger argues that this might merely be the opening cusp of a harmonic convergence of sorts, while another delivers the single most vicious, eloquent and accurate evisceration of the misogyny, not only in New Avengers #35, but also in Bendis' entire writing career to date. At this point, Bendis, Brady, Joe Quesada and all their like-minded cohorts have been proven to be so wrong, to such an unquestionable and impossible-to-ignore extreme, that it's like watching the "FLAWLESS VICTORY!!!" finishing move in Mortal Kombat, to the extent that all that's missing is for a pixelated version of Kurt Busiek (who, by Internet axiom, Is Always Right) to rip out these guys' spines, with their heads still attached, before they die.

I notice Bendis says he treats all characters equally, pointing to Daredevil. Did his run on Daredevil end with him being a murdering, insane man who had retreated to a simple life in Eastern Europe to hide from reality? One quick and rough definition that he should consider: Heroes persevere or go down fighting... Victims are broken.

Reading the replies to a lot of these posts, I find it telling that a number of people who excuse the scene seem to think that there's going to be some great, future "justice" scene where Tigra comes out on top of this Hood character. My own experience with Bendis' writing leads me to believe that just isn't the case... The whole point of this scene (from Bendis's view, apparently) is to build up the Hood to a major level. If Tigra were to come back and castrate him (literally or metaphorically) then it would undo that effort. I don't think that's in the cards.

As a further aside, I'm still amazed at the seeming pass that the actual editor in charge of these characters and stories, Tom Brevoort, gets for all of the things that are done in these books. The idea that he and the writer are "new to each other" seems to be well past being a viable excuse. One assumes that when this scene came into his office, he didn't think that Tigra should fight back in any way, or had so little influence over the title he edits as to not be able to make this scene more palatable.