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Once entrenched in the Marvel universe as a sexy mutant with curiously disco-friendly abilities, she starred in her own comic series from 1981 to 1986, became a member of the X-Men, and has stuck around in one form or another ever since. But here’s the crazy thing: She didn’t go anywhere. Everything about Dazzler suggested she wouldn’t survive the cultural moment that birthed her. Dazzler was developed in the late 1970s as a cross-promotional collaboration between Marvel Comics and Casablanca Records, the iconic disco label that gave the world The Village People, Donna Summer, Kiss (which also had its own Marvel comics miniseries), and Parliament Funkadelic. Alison Blaire), a mutant who can transform sound vibrations into light and energy beams. Most recently, I developed an enduring fascination with Dazzler (a.k.a.
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A highly intelligent tree-person who only speaks three words, “I am Groot?” What will they think of next?Ĭonsequently, I’ve become fascinated by a series of intriguingly bizarre, obscure characters. A space raccoon who wears people clothes? Consider my mind officially blown. And I am still enough of a comics neophyte to get excited about the preposterousness of characters and themes in comic books. But I am a voracious consumer of Wikipedia entries about comic books, which is how I get a lot of my information about the topic. For me, they’re still just funny-animal stories for children, and until I read an article proclaiming that comic books aren’t just for kids anymore, I can only assume they appeal exclusively to juvenile sensibilities. Despite the current centrality of comic-book movies in American culture, I’m not much of a comic-book reader.