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I’m not in love with Hisako mainly because she seems like the reiteration of a character I was gaga for in the 90’s. Unuscione was this fierce big-haired brunette Acolyte (who looked a little like Brooke Shields) and commanded a psionic exoskeleton very similar to Hisako’s armor. Unuscione was severely underused, in my opinion, and I truly believe that with such cool and unique powers, she could have gone far.

So, I guess I don’t hate Armor because I’m glad to see that the power is getting used in an active character. I do however resent how quickly she rose to the status of Wolverine’s sidekick. I’m all reading Ellis’ Hisako and she’s all calling Logan fat and I’m all like, “Who the hell does this little gunt think she is? You don’t talk to Wolvie like that!”

Ok, so I’m only using “Hollow” as her codename because I genuinely think it’s cooler than “Penance.” It has nothing to do with any kind of support for what Marvel has done to Speedball. Robbie is Speedball, Red Claw Girl is Hollow, and NOBODY is Penance- haha.

A tricky one, that Red Claw Girl, because like so many characters of her time, she had great potential but was pretty much ruined due to the constant changing of hands. Original Penance, this mute girl with the savage killer instinct, (um, Laura Kinney anyone?) was cool. And I think I speak for pretty much everyone when I say we were all on the edge of our seats waiting to learn this intriguing character’s origin. All we knew was her birthplace (Yugoslavia) and that she was Emplate’s bondage slave or whatever.

So can I speak for everyone again, for when the origin was finally revealed, not only were we confused as hell but pretty let down also? Making her “the real M” just negated any real origin story and totally erased a great viable character.

My theory? Well, Lobdell said she was Yugoslavian– and after he left, no one wanted to research what was happening in that part of the world and write a backstory involving her living in a war torn foreign country. So they just made her M.

The salvage, it seems, is that Penance still has a consciousness, who we now call Hollow. So… the Penance/ Hollow entity was a person all the time and her personality was just… usurped when Emplate put Monet in her body…? This origin would confuse even Psylocke.

In any case, I love this drawing. It’s one of my faves so far, if I do say so myself!

For those who don’t know, Bling! is the lesbian, mutant, junior X-Man daughter of famous fictional Hip-Hop stars in the Marvel U. If a character like Bling! can exist and not be considered a joke, then PHAT deserves a lot more respect.

Honestly, she was my least favorite in the series as she was literally brought on to replace U-Go Girl… but… was just not as cool… or fun. The character however does realize this and is jealous of U-Go Girl despite never having met her! So her storylines mostly deal with living in U-Go Girl’s shadow. Her power, another weird for the sake of being weird one, was that she was an entity comprised purely of mutant energy which can heal, teleport and hurt enemies. Professor X designs a containment suit for her and in one of his more memorable guest appearances in the series, offers her a suit that allows her to fuck.