Allison Blaire: Disco Goddess.

You know a great deal happens in that first issue of Dazzler. She starts out pursued by some thugs from the disco that have been hired by her former manager to scare her into signing a singing contract with a bad percentage. She’s holding her own with her dazzling mutant powers and snap on roller skates when a stray bullet takes out her radio; she converts sound waves into light shows that can dazzle her adversaries. Luckily Spiderman is passing by and gives her a tag team hookup.

My favorite part of that battle is his web slung tug-a-war with a fleeing Cadillac. I want a Cadillac.

Later, in her apartment with no food and rent two months past due, she cold showers us through her story of origin, which, like her power, is a little bland. She could have gone to law school to please her widowed father, but she’s going to be a singer to please herself.

She phones Storm at X-men HQ, interrupting a training session in the Danger Room, just to say hi, but she gets off the phone quick to avoiding caving to their x-offer of
x-men-ship. Storm barely gets the call as she is dog piled by Colossus, Wolverine, Night Crawler, and Kitty pride in her early Sprite incarnation. Oddly for the suspension of our disbelief they are all expecting calls on that one red danger room phone, all except for Kitty who has a crush on Colossus and is afraid it’s his girlfriend calling.

Jump cut to Avenger Mansion.

Luckily Beast, still an Avenger at this point, sees an advertisement in the paper for a singer at a club and bounds off to tell Dazzler, even though he doesn’t know her. They are all mutants and all mutants know each other right? We get a cameo here from The Wasp, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Avenger’s butler. Iron Man has a little seventies swinger thought about just how great the Captain’s reflexes really are.

Meanwhile, in Asgard The Enchantress hatches a plan to unleash ultimate powers of destruction through a temporal rift that will be appearing in a Midguard (earthly) disco. You guessed it kids, The Enchantress and Dazzler audition for the same gig and Dazzler gets it. The Enchantress is green in both costume and envy, exploding one wall of the disco in her pissed off exit. Tune in next week for issue #2 Last Stand in Disco Land, guest starring in no particular order: Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-men, & The Avengers.