u/DaOverseer

Pictured here is Dianne Doan as my top pick for Maika. Now you might know her from her work in Descendants, Vikings and Warrior (freaking love that show). When reading the comic I couldn't help but imagine her voice for Maika, she has such a natural sweet voice, even on her 30's I think she could pull off someone of Maika's age just fine. A lot of it steems from how she played Mai Ling in Warrior, she's this traumatized girl who saw the worst of the world as a child so she puts up the cold and ruthless persona of a shotcaller to survive in a crapsack world of violence but you can still see the cracks every now and then. I recommend you watch some clips of her in there, you might draw the parallels and get a good look at her range, for me personally it ties into the way we see Maika switching between the innocent orphan of war and the downright terrifying menace she can turn into. As a plus she's Canadian with mixed Vietnamese and Chinese heritage, that oughta tie nicely into Maika's ethnic identity, the comic's themes and Marjorie's own history and intent.

Now I know Dianne hasn't done a lot of voice acting, just that one time she voiced Lonnie in the Descendants Wicked World shorts but I think they can work with that. I mean, shows like Arcane and Invincible had a balance between regular voice actors (which I hope the Monstress show gets a lot of, I can picture Kimberly Brooks as Tuya) and TV screen actors, take Jeffrey Dean Morgan for example, guy had little to no voice acting credits before but he still killed it as Conquest. I just hope they don't go too crazy casting celebrities, that'd take up a lot of budget and a huge part of it should go to animators if they're to do Sana's art justice imo, can't half ass that part.

I'd also like to emphasize the importance of casting Asian actors and having an overall diverse cast to match the characters. Some of the Arcanics are more tricky, same goes for the Monstrum as we all have our ideas of what Zinn should sound like but characters like Maika and her family should be 100% played by Asian actors imo. Still trying to think of other picks for the rest of the cast so let me know your suggestions in the comments.

Ngl, it's kinda neat seeing fans of both come together outside all the versus debating beef. I dig the idea of Gert being like a douchey older sister to Mark.

Accurate or nah? I narrowed it down to the "good guys" of the story (yeah, I know Kippa is the only you can consider good lol) since most of the larger cast can kill you and look the part too. Might make more of these as I go along, I'm looking to increase my contributions and re-ignite the fandom discussion while we all wait for the TV show.

All credit goes to Gmbo Plus from the Curi DC fb group. So much comedy gold in there.

I don't want to make this all about anime from the get go so to shake things up a bit I'd argue my personal experience with this in recent years stems from Harry Potter and The Boys. I mean, I'm in the minority that actually liked The Boys both as a comic and a show but tbh I've seen a lot of people cut it too much slack for being subversive or politically relevant when it has some pretty baffling writing decisions, and I actually like Garth Ennis more than, say, Mark Millar, but still. Harry Potter I grew up with but like most people I know huge parts of it didn't age well, it's just that you'd be surprised hy how many people still shield Rowling from criticism just because she touched on important topics (even if she completely fumbled the bag).

They all came out relatively close to each other and I'm only just starting them now but so far To Be Hero X has piqued my interest a little more.

Vi (Arcane), Korra (The Legend of Korra) and Adora (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power). NGL, there was a time when I would have thought you'd all jump to call it a mismatch in Vi's favor but seeing the reception on S2 and how it aged as well as an increasingly more positive consensus on She-Ra and Korra I think it's a lot more close than it seems.

Wanted to do more Image Comics match-ups for a change. So I know both characters get a lot of shit for being pretty much style over substance, a lot of people see them as mean-spirited deconstructions of their genre for edgelords but I wanted to compare Skottie Young and Mark Millar's writing for a bit and find out if people are at least familiar with them (I know Hit-Girl gets most of her rep from the movies tho).

She's in the bottom row near the middle, below Hit-Girl and next to Negan. What do you think she would be like as a playable character? Think about her moveset and how Zinn would be incorporated.