“I don’t know what went into that cover. I know the editor is Mark Paniccia, the father of a one year old daughter that he loves more than anything. I know Mark well enough to hazard the guess that he wasn’t trying to ‘oppress’ women, ‘oppress’ Misty Knight, or follow a secret agenda. He was probably just trying to sell more books. I imagine Sana Takeda wanted to sell more books. The really really sad thing is that inside the Biosphere, up on the mountain, probably nobody gave this a second thought. Nobody thought that ‘Misty Knight and the Black Cat and Colleen Wing shouldn’t be shown this way because it demeans them as characters.’”

Heroes for Hire

Also: Publishers Weekly on ECBACC.