In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five times comic book characters took on different aliases, but those aliases turned out to be real people. I’ve been doing a Month of Drawing Crazy Patterns at Pop Culture References this month, and I thought it’d be nice to do some here, as well, before the end of the month! As you know, a regular thing in comic books is the idea of someone taking on a secondary alias, and then fans have to figure out the secret. I have a whole feature for this sort of thing called Secrets to Conceal. However, an interesting variation on this sort of thing is the times that the other alias was so interesting that the company decided, “Eh, you know what? Let’s keep the alias!” So then the fake identity turns out to be a real person! Here are five examples of that trope.Then, in the pages of the Defenders ongoing series, specifically in the fourth issue (by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema and Frank McLaughlin), we learned that Enchantress had the REAL Valkyrie held captive, and was just impersonating her, and not a separate identity. The Defenders rescue her, and she became a longstanding member of the team…
In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five times comic book characters took on different aliases, but those aliases turned out to be real people.
I’ve been doing a Month of Drawing Crazy Patterns at Pop Culture References this month, and I thought it’d be nice to do some here, as well, before the end of the month! As you know, a regular thing in comic books is the idea of someone taking on a secondary alias, and then fans have to figure out the secret. I have a whole feature for this sort of thing called Secrets to Conceal. However, an interesting variation on this sort of thing is the times that the other alias was so interesting that the company decided, “Eh, you know what? Let’s keep the alias!” So then the fake identity turns out to be a real person! Here are five examples of that trope.
Then, in the pages of the Defenders ongoing series, specifically in the fourth issue (by Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema and Frank McLaughlin), we learned that Enchantress had the REAL Valkyrie held captive, and was just impersonating her, and not a separate identity. The Defenders rescue her, and she became a longstanding member of the team…
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