Retro Review

Emma Frost could have been a great comic. With a female lead who was not just a copy of a more successful male super-hero, but a popular, complex and interesting character in her own right, it could have been a rival for DC’s success with Birds of Prey and Catwoman, but it lasted only 18 months and has been largely forgotten. The main problem with it is that it seems to have been edited by two different people, one working on the covers and marketing, the other on the interiors, neither knowing what the other was trying to achieve. It is a real shame, because it isn’t a bad comic: it just looks like one.

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