Why is Emma Frost wearing power suits?
Another annoying thing about the issues leading up to Wood’s run: they thoroughly de-fanged Emma. Her clipped tones gave way to more generic, reformed bad guy-sounding pronouncements and all those bustiers were replaced with actual normal-person outfits — the kind that regular human beings wear! I have a mental image of a panel where I think she was wearing — *gasp* — running clothes! Like a t-shirt! And shorts! Maybe they were even sweat-shorts! I can’t talk about this anymore! Anyway, I feel like Wood really did a lot as far restoring Emma’s voice, giving her a hint of bitch but still making her mentor-like. I remember this being the point in time wherein I really started loving Emma and seeing her full potential as a character. (And I’m still a fan, I just hate FROSTLOPS, but that’s another blog post that I will never write because it will turn me into raving, mouth-foamy FANHAG. No one wants that.) The bustiers, however, didn’t return until her next iteration in New X-Men, so here,
