Amazing Spider-Girl #7



Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Ron Frenz

 Synopsis: Ladyhawk is on a quest of vengeance against the Hobgoblin. 


Comments: Note: Since the the twin heroes put out to the world that Ladyhawk is one person, I'm going to refer to them as only "Ladyhawk" even when talking about one or both of them.  

 Ladyhawk's comments that a woman didn't give Magic Fingers his name. Is this an all ages comic? 



I like how May is wearing an Avengers shirt. 


Ladyhawk's names are revealed. The nicer one is Regina and the no-nonsense one is Rosetta. Rosetta was the one Earthshaker badly beat in Spider-Girl #21 and Regina had to avenge her that time. Here Regina's injuries seem to be permanent. 




I'm not sure what becomes of the disc. Drasco still has it here. 




Spider-Girl refers to Drasco as her "pet cop." Other characters refer to Drasco as that in the future. Drasco seems to slyly want Spider-Girl to capture the Hobgoblin so he can be free of his hold. 


Morgan's goon flying through the wall while Morgan is at his desk is from Captain America #154 when the Falcon did it. Fitting that it's the Falcon's legacy Ladyhawk doing it here. 



Boss Morgan actually has a calm meeting with Spider-Girl and Ladyhawk. A running joke in Morgan's appearances in the 616 continuity is that he would be repeatedly assaulted, threatened and insulted by heroes like Falcon, Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Captain America. Supercut below. 



Spider-girl brings up the previous origin Ladyhawk told her in Spider-Girl #60 about their father being dead. I supposed this was necessary when DeFalco's plans for the character changed. 






I'm not sure how the Hobgoblin survived that attack even with Drasco reluctantly rescuing him. I like how the Hobgoblin seems more befuddled than vengeful that the Morgan tried to kill him. And the twist is that Morgan is father of Ladyhawk. 




As promised, the supercut: 






























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