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Unsolicited Opinions On Angela's New Costume

This is how she began.

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As warrior angels go, she was intended by writer Neil Gaiman to look a little more – covered. Furs, leathers, chain mail and the like, but artit Todd McFarlane went more for the Swimsuit Illustrated look.

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This is how she entered the Marvel Universe as part of a series of incredibly complex legal manoeuvres.

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Well, here is how she appears in the comics currently. Less of the skin, more of the warrior, less of the armour, more of the majesty, a lot closer to Neil Gaiman's original vision in fact.

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And then both taking on the raiments of Hel, before discarding them and going to a true hell on Earth instead…
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The next two issues may well be the title's final issues, for April and May, which give us two rather different cover looks, which go a little back to the Todd look.

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But here is how she is looking in this new Loki/Politics comic from Marvel, coming out in June, slightly more of an Asgarian look. Oh and the FBI shades as well, of course. Is she's her newly-discovered half-brother Loki's security in his run for office? If so, that's one hell of an earpiece she's sporting…

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There must be a style guide out there somewhere for her…


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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