
For me, that about sums up Melati Kusuma, AKA Komodo. Created by Dan Slott for the
Avengers: The Initiative series (one of the first series I read regularly when
I started reading comics regularly) – her backstory was that she was a student
of Dr. Curt Connors, AKA The Lizard, who was missing her legs and fixed his lizard
formula.
Well, the part that makes you crazy, at least. Which gave her
the power to change into a lizard woman at will with a healing factor that’s
just this side of the likes of Wolverine and Deadpool. Granted, she has to stay
as a lizard woman if she wants to keep her legs, but it’s not really anything
she seems to have a problem with.
Pile on top of that the genius she has which allowed her to
get said powers – genius I would argue allows her the potential to join the
ranks of other B-Level geniuses of the Marvel Universe like Beast and
Spider-Man – and both her dedication and flat-out skill as a superhero that made
her one of the top recruits of the Initiative series, and you have someone with
a lot going for her.
Which makes it sad that, since The Initiative ended, she’s
all but disappeared from the Marvel U. She’s popped up a couple times since
then, but for the most part? Nada. It’s especially troubling since the guy who
created her is currently the
Spider-Man writer. The same Spider-Man who has Dr. Connors, The Lizard, as a
long-time enemy.
That’s ‘Why Komodo’. Because I know she has a lot of
potential that’s being wasted right now, and I want to see how much of that
potential we can use here at Thought Balloons this week.
That includes any play at home writers who’d also like to
have a go at it! As always, if you’d like to write a script this week, feel
free to post it in the comments section of this ‘Why?’ below!
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