the Consumer debuts
The expository note is refined then dropped. The need to give some pseudo-scientific explained on superpowers is dropped in favor of pointing to gadgetry. The initials appear a holdover from the Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. spy spoof trend Chase that this follows.
Not sure the jet belt figures at all here given they give her a cape.
She is a Superteen no more, costume dumped in an alley as she walks off forlorn, head down.
Noodnic versus Noodnik. I do have a thought on the Consumer’s swim trunk-wear – borrowing from Marvel’s Thing I suppose – what is the nature of his anatomy? Is there genitalia he’s hiding?
I struggle a little on whether to claim “The Consumer” offers social commentary. A metaphor for something. Consumption, for example, or Consumerism. Really hard hitting ideas boiling here!
