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Princess Di Reborn as Comic Hero
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Princess Diana?!
That's right. Marvel Comics has just announced that the late Princess of Wales will have a five-story cameo as a mutant superhero in its popular monthly X-Statix comic, a spinoff of The X-Men series.
Marvel spokesman Brian Reinert tells Reuters that Her Royal Highness will be part of a story arc called Di Another Day, with the first book going on sale September 10.
Diana will be resurrected and on a "comeback tour," but an evil band of Eurotrash undead are after her and it's up to the X-Statix team to save her. Unlike conventional comic book types, the X-Statix team is a band of media-savvy mutants that prefer the spotlight to crime fighting.
"They're more concerned about their bank accounts than saving people from injuries and saving the world," Reinert explains, calling the story line a satire of pop culture.
101 Most Shocking MomentsE! counts down Tinseltown's tawdriest tales, including Diana's death.
Premieres: July 13, 10 p.m.
X-Static scribe Peter Milligan elaborates, saying Diana is perfect for the comic, which hopes to make a satirical commentary on today's celebrity crazed culture, because she is "someone famous for being famous."
"I thought it was time we had a real dead girl in the team, and, clearly, Diana was made for X-Statix: Someone famous for being famous," Milligan writes in London's Guardian newspaper. "In the world of the X-Men, the mutants are feared and hated. In X-Statix, they have turned this around and made themselves stars--glamorous, rich and powerful. That seems, to me, to be pretty much what Diana did inside the royal family."
Indeed, Marvel is thrilled with the new comic and has already honed in on the princess' superpower. "At a glance, Diana may not resemble the flying, teleporting, lethally oscillating characters that populate my comic, but the strange power she exerts from beyond the grave certainly makes her a valid subject to explore," Milligan says in a statement to Reuters. "And, of course, she looks great in Spandex!"
Superior Spandex skills notwithstanding, Buckingham Palace is decidedly less thrilled about the news. A spokesperson for the royal family calls the comic "utterly appalling," telling Britain's Daily Mail the planned book is a "cheap attempt to cash in on Diana's fame and the tragic circumstances surrounding her death."
Diana's fan base is not particularly delighted with the plan either.
"Sorry, Marvel, you've hit an all-new low," rages one Diana-phile on a Yahoo! message board. "It is appalling that someone...can actually make this idea into a reality. Why not go relieve yourself on the Statue of Liberty while you are at it? It's all in the same vein. In short--I won't buy it."
But Milligan says such criticism is unfounded, telling the Guardian, "If any of them actually reads all five episodes of Di Another Day, they will see that Diana comes out of it a lot better than the British establishment."
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