Let's Talk about Kitty Pryde!

Current art exhibit that is 60% totally amazing:
http://fullofpryde.blogspot.com/

The painting I bid (and then got outbid) on:

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Failz. Here's the link:

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Is Kitty supposed to be an adult these days? I thought her breasts were originally drawn smaller those of other X-Women because she was younger than them, but many artists seem to have carried the tradition up to the recent times. So does this mean she's the only X-Women with smaller than D-cup boobs?

Yes, she's an adult now and yes, she's probably the only female character in comics that doesn't look like a porn star.

Er, there are comics outside superhero comics too, you know.

I really liked Kitty back as a (pre)teen, when I used read the X-books. I think she was one of the few successful examples where having a feisty teen character hang around with older characters, so that the kids will have someone to relate to, actually worked. But she seems to be absent from most of the X-books I've read since the early 90s. Is she still a member of the X-Men? Does Excalibur still exist? Maybe there's less use for her now that most superhero readers are adults and not kids.

Actually, I think the reason why Kitty worked for the teen audience was because she wasn't really given too many teen signifiers (which, considering the age difference between the writers and the readers back then, would've probably been lame), and she because was treated with respect and not like a kid by the older X-Men.

I think Kitty is now phased/merged with an intergalactic planet-killing bullet, thanks to Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run. Thus, she isn't around much anymore.

phased/merged with an intergalactic planet-killing bullet

I know were talking about superhero comics here, but still: WTF?!

Kitty looking good, Interplanet Janet style:

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Yeah, these aliens shot this giant bullet at Earth and Kitty phased it through the planet, in the process getting sort of fused/stuck with the bullet. Hasn't been seen since the conclusion of Astonishing X-Men, which in hindsight was Joss Whedon's attempt to honor his favorite character by giving her a heroic exit rather than leaving her hanging around at the margins of underselling books. I feel like being a mostly-ordinary hero was part of the appeal with Kitty, though...oh well, it wouldn't take much to get her back into the game.

Loved the character as a young reader - she was a pretty thoroughly-developed and plausible person, moreso than most of the others. Good range.

Whedon's X-Men is my favorite of his work, except for maybe one or two Buffy episodes.

It's definitely by far his best comic work. Loved that exit for Kitty at the end of Astonishing, it was epic.

Kitty had some decent stuff before that in that Claremont Mechanix/X-Treme run, but her most notable appearance outside of Astonishing was in that weird ultimate-fanfic maxiseries X-Men: The End (also by Claremont) where she's running for political office a decade or two into the future.

Saw this today at Floating World. Some of it is really good.