• Published:April 21st, 2009
• Comments:3 Comments
• Category:Comics, Movies

The new Wolverine movie brings out the best in Harry Knowles:

“I thought Emma Frost was a very powerful psychic/telepath/empath that had a fairly sadistic, kinky and manipulative streak a mile long. I think Emma Frost was known as the White Queen and was one of the leaders of the Hellfire Club, a kind of mutant SKULL & BONES society at a rival institution to Xavier’s School. But I must have the name wrong. Because I’m relatively sure that surely the people making these movies give perhaps even the vaguest of shits about the material. Surely they Wikipedia’d the character name – read that she was an telepath like Xavier and thought – We can’t have another telepath, but let’s make her a goddamn human fucking DISCO BALL!

I fucking hate FOX for shit like this. EMMA FROST is one of the greatest characters alongside Sebastian Shaw. If the writers, producers, studio cared even a fucking ounce about the characters and the material they would know how fucking stupid turning Emma Frost into the Human Fucking Disco Ball would be. I HATE THIS SHIT!”

I’m sure this has nothing to do with how Knowles liked to rub it out to Byrne X-Men comics in the 80s.

Ok – so I just read that apparently at some point in some iteration of the X-MEN – that EMMA FROST developed Diamond skin… Which wasn’t the case in the far superior Claremont days of the character – so technically they’re not to blame for inventing her DISCO BALL BULLSHIT – but god damn – it is cheesy looking and ridiculous looking. And at the very least is fucked up continuity. Which, of course, they don’t give a shit about.

OK, maybe it does.

Thanks to Casey for the heads-up on this.