nooker's review against another edition
5.0
This is definitely of the '90s, but I still love it and she's my favorite superhero.
kaylecorey's review against another edition
2.0
The pencil, inking, coloring, and lettering are all incredibly lovely. A+ artwork. But the story is relentlessly man-hating to the point where it made me roll my eyes more than once. I appreciate the effort here to outline women's oppression, but this was just tiresome.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition
4.0
I picked this up when Dark Horse offered it for free during the lockdown. So thank you Dark Horse.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this, but to my surprise, I enjoyed it quite a bit. The story is told from the viewpoint of Elsa who does not know how she can do the things she can do; she does know that she is dead, but she does not remember how or even who she was in great detail. Part of the story. In this volume is her discovery of her past.
The other part is her taking revenge on men for how they treat women. I suppose it would be too easy to dismiss this as a typical female revenge storyline, but the book is a little deeper. Even the costume that Ghost wears ties into this idea of what men see woman as contrasting with what women see themselves as.
In fact, this book features several strong women, and while Ghost and Margo are with sexualized or sexual, it is displayed and shown as a choice. Either as something they chose because it is what they wanted or something they chose to trick men. Importantly there is a section where the choice of how they dress and they sexuality is controlled against their way, and the illustration and feeling is far, far different. And the view isn’t the POV of the attacker, but of the women.
There is a more recent relaunch of this series and I read issue #0 and part of issue #1 of that. I prefer this one because it is a story about a woman, told by the woman’ where the redo, at least in the issues I read, is a story about mysterious woman that centers the story more on the men who found her. I prefer this one.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this, but to my surprise, I enjoyed it quite a bit. The story is told from the viewpoint of Elsa who does not know how she can do the things she can do; she does know that she is dead, but she does not remember how or even who she was in great detail. Part of the story. In this volume is her discovery of her past.
The other part is her taking revenge on men for how they treat women. I suppose it would be too easy to dismiss this as a typical female revenge storyline, but the book is a little deeper. Even the costume that Ghost wears ties into this idea of what men see woman as contrasting with what women see themselves as.
In fact, this book features several strong women, and while Ghost and Margo are with sexualized or sexual, it is displayed and shown as a choice. Either as something they chose because it is what they wanted or something they chose to trick men. Importantly there is a section where the choice of how they dress and they sexuality is controlled against their way, and the illustration and feeling is far, far different. And the view isn’t the POV of the attacker, but of the women.
There is a more recent relaunch of this series and I read issue #0 and part of issue #1 of that. I prefer this one because it is a story about a woman, told by the woman’ where the redo, at least in the issues I read, is a story about mysterious woman that centers the story more on the men who found her. I prefer this one.
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