Spider-Girl #92



Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Ron Frenz

 Synopsis: Spider-Girl teams up with Push to fight Magneto, who has apparently returned. 

Comments: The Avengers has gained a bit more diversity with Black members (Blacklight, Coal Tiger and Earth Sentry) being called up out of reserve status. 

Thunderstrike and American are probably on bereavement leave since they were close to Captain America so that kind of makes Spider-Girl's comment that she's going to relax on a beach with American Dream somewhat insensitive. 



Mainframe mentions the X-Men, indicating the group is still extant and that their name wasn't just changed to X-People. 



Spider-Girl's comment "Is this Magneto real or Memorex?" is an old school reference. There was a tape recorder brand called Memorex and they boasted the quality of their sound was so good that people would ask "Is it live or is it Memorex?" 



Book and Internet sources are not mutually exclusive. Just the reliability of the information. May's school probably has access to research databases. Davida's comment does sound like plagiarism. Even if you cite a source, you can't just copy and paste a research paper without adding your own analysis. I asked my friend who taught English Composition and worked in the Writing Center of a university and his comment is below. 







Credit that Spider-Girl is as smart as her audience. I hate it when heroes meeting in their civilian identities, part ways and then meet up in their superhero identities, unaware of each other's identities. Nancy has done a 180, since she never wanted to be a costumed superhero in the first place. She has added representation, so you can mention Push as an Asian superhero if anyone ever asks. 




Spider-Girl easily deduces that it's not Magneto. Her comment that Magneto took over military bases and sank submarines are references to X-Men #1 and #150. 













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