Here is an alternative cover for New Avengers issue #39 featuring Deaf Character Echo. I've been talking about this issue for a few months now. In 6 days, our wait will be over.Eeeekkkk! My big concern is that Echo/Maya Lopez will be a Skrull and end up hearing (a very uncool ending for such a cool character)... but because David Mack is on board this project and I believe that he has a great deal of respect for Echo (considering he created her and all), I don't think that will happen.
Thanks for the notice about a Deaf character in one of the Marvel comics!
ReplyDeleteI'll go out to the nearest comic store on March 15 and get a copy myself too.
I wonder if there have been other Deaf characters in past comics...
The Deaf Character Echo has appeared in Marvel Comics' Daredevil: Parts of a Hole (Reprints DAREDEVIL (Vol. 2) #9-15), Daredevil issues #51, 52, 53, 54, 55. She then made her way to Marvel Comics' The New Avengers issues 30 and up. I don't want to give away how she appears.
ReplyDeleteClint Barton, aka Hawkeye, in Avengers #239, explains how he has become deaf.
I've included several posts about Deaf Characters in Comics. At the bottom of this post, there is a label "Comics and Graphic Novels". If you click that label, it will take you to all the previous posts about the topic.
I freakin' love comics. I have been buying them for 19 years now. that's 3/4 of my life in case you were wondering.
ReplyDeleteHawkeye is partially deaf, but still deaf nonetheless.
I have my suspicions that Echo is a skrull. In her first appearance in the Parts of a Hole storyline, she had to look at people to lip read. In New Avengers, Echo doesn't face characters to lip read. On purpose? Or just a careless writer?
Matt, I'm hoping her lack of facing people for lipreading is just an oversight by the writers (no offense Bendis)... but I'm so worried that she is a skrull. You're right; she doesn't face people and there is this weird mystique about her.
ReplyDeleteBUT again I keep telling myself, David Mack is part of this project and he did create her and her history of being a child learning sign language (including those comparisions between American Sign Language and Indian Sign Language)... let's keep our fingers and toes crossed. ((DON'T LET US DOWN, DAVID-- I'm going to email him this post))
And if I don't post on March 12th, everyone will know why:(
It wasn't even posted on the Marvel website. I found the new release date on David Mack's website. Hmmm, our wait isn't over.
ReplyDeleteMarch 26: New Avengers #39