Yikes, talk about Quicksilver character assassination. Making Pietro the villain of her stories is insulting to both characters. This might be one of the most vicious characterizations of the man yet. His own sister calling him a sociopath (apparently Wanda’s a mental health professional capable of diagnosis)? After he tried to choke her out?

I really really wanted to like this run. But Robinson just doesn’t seem to get what could makes Wanda a strong character and how to strengthen her further. Wanda hasn’t been a “meek little flower” since they were in the Brotherhood of Mutants. But Robinson feels the need to declare that Wanda is so much better now, to tell us that he’s writing the character as strong and powerful (and to back it up by having her attack her brother…destroying her own furniture in the process?).

He’s always paying lip service to how great and skilled Wanda is–or rather, how great he writes her. When Wanda solves a problem, it’s because she knows all the answers and just the right thing to do. She arrives, fixes everything, moves on.

And then the few times Robinson deals with developing her as a person, it’s always on the troublesome side like her calling her brother a sociopath or saying she’s uncomfortable around her children. Rather than enforcing the character she does have, he’s inventing a new, more awful one.