Kitty Cat Diamond

We watched the movie spinoff “Elektra” last night. The movie was not spectacular, by any means. The ending was like many of these comic book movies: It dragged on and on. You would think superhero writers would understand the importance of a “final punch,” but I guess not.

That being said, the movie was good research material for Kitty Cat Diamond. The young girl Elektra is trying to save in this movie, “Abby,” goes through some of the initial confusion and disbelief that we think Kitty Cat Diamond will experience in her second episode.

I looked up Electra on Wikipedia, and I’m kind of miffed. First, she turns out to be a “skrull,” which is just crazy. Second, I notice that in general, Marvel comics has all these different parallel universes going on, so that if you want your superhero to be good, evil, dead, alive, whatever — there is probably a universe where that’s the truth. As far as storytelling goes, I think this is terrible. I know this is comic storytelling, so it’s not supposed to be literature, it’s not supposed to parallel life. However, isn’t it enough for these people to have super powers? Why do they get to have all these alternative lives?

The answer is of course $$$ so Marvel can milk the characters. That’s sad, but I suppose it’s the truth.

Kitty Cat Diamond will not have any alternative storylines or universes and such, I promise.

Finally, I don’t want anyone to get confused by this article and think I am talking about an Elektra espresso machine.