CHAMPIONS ANNUAL #1 (2018) and UMBRELLA ACADEMY: HOTEL OBLIVION #5 (2019)

[Zorro]

Mixing in two scenes a few months apart. The last time I tried posting here the site was glitching so I bid my patience.

CHAMPIONS ANNUAL #1 was the last issue before their relaunch and it features new heroine Snowguard (a Native heroine) getting a full treatment. She's captured by some ancient spirits, TKO'd and then wakes up chained up and upside down. Considering she's not even a year old, it's an amazingly fast track to a full treatment. There's no gag, but you can't always have everything. She manages to escape and reason with her captors to resolve the problem. Her powers are similar to Beast Boy's -- she can assume animal forms, and mix up their traits. This came out in December.

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Champi ... =146513#25 (Snowguard in rabbit form it caught in a net. She turns back to human form as a ghost hits her with a blackjack. Seriously.)
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Champi ... =146513#27(Chained up, upside down)
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Champi ... =146513#28(Escape)

UMBRELLA ACADEMY: HOTEL OBLIVION #5 hit this week. Anyone who thinks the Netflix show seems weird, realize it's a watered down version of the comic, which is bizarre as hell. Anyway, this is a short one panel thing. The Rumor (along with Number Five) has been captured by the villains. Her powers allow her to alter reality by telling lies -- so like Black Canary, Zatanna, and Siryn, Rumor is a heroine who is powerless when gagged. The villain captured them in issue #4 and directly told his underlings to make sure Rumor couldn't talk. In this issue she's been strapped to a chair and gagged with tape. Other villains are running amok in the facility, and she and Five are immediately free by the next page or so.

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Um ... =149554#15(Rumor tape gagged and strapped to a chair. This is literally it. They're free 2 pages later.)

[Miho]

Nice finds! Thanks for sharing. Yeah definitely rare for superheroines to get a DID so early on in their career... That said it's funny how common it is for characters to get bound in things extremely durable like chains and then rip them apart like they're noodles in these comics lol.

Seems like just about all heroes spend seconds in bindings like that, which makes one wonder what the difference between binding types would even be. Or why it even happens really.

Anyhow, nice scene of Snowguard especially, I like her design.

[Sailornapper]

Guess Silverclaw has been forgotten but like this new girl.

[Zorro]

Nice finds! Thanks for sharing. Yeah definitely rare for superheroines to get a DID so early on in their career... That said it's funny how common it is for characters to get bound in things extremely durable like chains and then rip them apart like they're noodles in these comics lol.

Seems like just about all heroes spend seconds in bindings like that, which makes one wonder what the difference between binding types would even be. Or why it even happens really.

Anyhow, nice scene of Snowguard especially, I like her design.

It's part of the superhero trope. Superman easily escaping being bound by chains -- even in mid-dress into his costume -- is pretty standard stuff. Even in the 70's we had that classic SPIDER-WOMAN scene where Hangsman ties her to a chair and even though she can lift many tons, she's still there bound for a bit because...he just has a creepy, weird, haunting voice.

Guess Silverclaw has been forgotten but like this new girl.

She's been forgotten since the Kurt Busiek and George Perez run on AVENGERS ended in 2002. She's had cameos here and there (mostly during CIVIL WAR in 2006-2007) and has done very little since. Her last appearance was in 2012. Considering she was Jarvis the butler's adopted niece, it is kind of a shame she hasn't turned up much.

[Miho]

Oh yeah I'm well aware of that superhero trope, in fact that's pretty much why I said what I did about it. Just kinda funny the baddies even bother tying them up at all, since that's so typical. And ah yeah, that one famed chairtie cover scene that countless people on the net have drawn so many times over now it's been made boring. (At least IMO that is) I remember that. But yeah, like all other things in Superhero comics being tied up is pretty much just a momentary inconvenience unless the writer decides the plot wants them to stay there for some reason.

But like I said, thanks for sharing the scene all the same.