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White Tiger: A Hero's Compulsion by Tamora Pierce

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This story is set before the events of Marvel 's Civil War. In it, FBI Agent Angela Del Toro leaves the FBI after her partner is murdered and her career is on the downswing. However, she acquires the amulets that beloved to her late uncle Hector and as such becomes the new White Tiger.

This is a decent story. There's plenty of action, good art, and a nice mystery. But there's a reason why this series and the Whtie Tiger are generally forgotten. Because while we're given information on her powers, we never really get a good connection with her as a character. There are a lot of Marvel Universe cameos and that may be part of the problem. She has connections to Luke Cage, Danny Rand, Natasha Romanov, and Spider-man, Emma Frost, and Deadpool also show up for cameos in a six-issue mini-series.

Her strongest connection is to Matt Murdoch/Daredevil but because of Murdoch being in prison at this point, he doesn't appear. Ironically, that character being in the book for cameos and others absent may have worked far better.

Overall, this is not bad, but ultimately, it's just a bit forgettable.




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