Unstoppable Wasp #2 Review

Writer: Jeremy Whitley / Artists: Elsa Charretier and Megan Wilson / Marvel Comics Issue #2 of The Unstoppable Wasp picks up right where #1 left off. To recap, in issue #1 Nadia, newly escaped from The Red Room, finds herself teaming up with Ms. Marvel and Mockingbird to save the city from a woman mad scientist in a giant robot. (That sentence there? That’s the kind of sentence I had always thought I’d write as a comic reviewer, one that is accurate and absurd simultaneously. #WriterDreams) Now, Nadia has taken up residence in her father’s old house/lab and begun researching other girl scientists to recruit into her own crew: Genius in Action Research Lab, or G.I.R.L.

With the help of Jarvis, and after a slightly too long explanation about how girls have been systematically overlooked by other genius scientists like Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, Nadia sets off for her first recruit: Taina Miranda. Taina is a Puerto Rican New Yorker robotics engineer who uses crutches and a wheelchair to get around.

This kind of inclusion of people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse bodies is what Whitley and crew have promised from the beginning. It is very refreshing and exactly the kind of representation we’re always calling for. It’ll take a few issues till we see how deep this commitment goes, but clearly Taina and Alexis are bound to be core characters in the first run. At no point does Nadia ask about the crutches. She goes direct to: You’re a robot genius, do you want to come s…