Being Black with very strong African and Latin cultural roots and also being a lifelong adherent of the martial arts,I tried to purchase this mini,but my local comics shop kept telling me that they were sold out.I asked if they were getting more,but they told me that they probably weren't becasue the series isn't selling well and that the story is lame.That's a quote."The story is lame."
You need to find a better LCS!!! My LCS would never pull that sort of nonsense on me, if I said I wanted an issue that was sold out but still available, I'd get it. And seriously, what kind of moron logic is that guy using? It sold out completely, therefore it's not selling well? Uh, something does not compute. 1 + 1 = 0? That guy is full of something.
Is the story lame?
Not at all! It's excellent. It's not particularly original -- it's basically Daredevil Redux, but considering all that has happened to Daredevil in the last five years (
Out,
The Murdock Papers, and
Devil In Cell Block D in particular), it's kind of impossible to tell traditional Daredevil type stories, the story of one person's war on crime. So
White Tiger fills a niche that Daredevil can no longer fill, and is a vehicle for telling stories that can't be told in
Daredevil. It's a story about a green street-crimefighter learning the ropes of crime-fighting, and it's good. That it's being written by a woman also brings a lot of fresh perspective to the story. White Tiger questions a lot of traditional presumptions about crime-fighting, and doesn't come off like some female crime-fighters do, as a man-with-boobs.
Also a new Cobra has been introduced (the original's nephew), and he's cool and menacing.
There are a few problems with the series. In the first issue there is an appearance by Spider-Man that is totally inexplicable. It's a bit jarring, he just shows up at random in a place it makes no sense for him to show up at. And the conceit that Danny Rand is an "uncle"-like figure to Del Toro is a bit implausible. I mean, maybe if they had let Danny Rand age a bit since he was introduced in the seventies that would make sense, but given the conciet of Marvel Time, you end up with a twenty-something Danny Rand remembering when the twenty-something Angela Del Toro was a kid. Um. Doesn't quite work. But I don't think they are presenting Danny as a love-interest, just a mystery that Del Toro is trying to solve. Given the nature of comics, I wouldn't expect a successfull, happy relationship for Del Toro for quite some time. I mean, it's a staple of the genre that heroes always have to choose between the soft happiness of relationship and their moral duty as superheroes.
