I have a friend who gently teases me for my love of shiny things. Well, maybe I do the teasing but she has noticed I tend to like shiny dresses and such and I realize that makes me sound like a drooling idiot, like I am staring at my monitor and going, “Oooooo, Shiny!" But I do like shiny clothing. And maybe it all stems from the shiniest of all superheroes, Alison Blaire, better known as the Dazzler. Now, unfortunately she is largely seen as a joke by a lot of the comics community, which is a shame. Her original disco costume is especially mocked which is also a shame because I love it! Of course, sometimes I realize my taste in X-Men may not conform to popular standards since I am very tired of Wolverine (common among older X-fans) and the Australia era where she was part of the team is one of my favorite (the only time I actually see this era references is with something like, "Most people hate the Australian era but I like it”). The real shame though is that Dazzler is your typical complex and interesting X-Woman and people seem to have no clue because they just kind of go “Ugh, Disco”. I fully get that but it ignores that she is one of the few X-Men a successful solo series and the only one who had a solo series as her starting point and only later joined the team. I sadly haven’t seen much of her in recent years because I am no longer the type of nerd who reads every X-title. Mainly because I don’t have time but also it was easier when there were fewer than 20 a month. I haven’t liked the little I have seen where they have written her as a ditzy pop star. The Dazzler I remember was someone who set out to follow her dreams, as unrealistic as those dreams were, and as silly as they were because disco was totally dead by the time her book launched. That just added depth, she was going after what she wanted to do and it didn’t really matter what anyone told her. She had resolve and she was tough and she was totally shiny. I mean, her power is to make pretty lights and sparkles. And she fought Doctor Doom and Galactus with pretty lights and sparkles. Not to mention no one was on that Australian team who wasn’t tough as nails. She was awesome. So today I want to fuck Dazzler.
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