>>100558672>>100555952 With how easily it happened and then un-happened, I don't think Slott is entirely to blame for the "queenpin" Black cat character/heelturn.
Hear me out.
Slott deserves a lot of blame for a lot of things, but with Slott, he likes to build up his audience by planting little seeds and hints here and there and everywhere in previous stories. This literally came out of nowhere and almost immediately, several writers began using her new Evil Crimeboss Persona in their stories as an already established mob boss threat. Despite the fact that she literally just became this character, but now had a huge crime empire in other books. With how haphazard that story was and how it seemed like Slott barely gave a fuck about what caused it, barely used her in any of his plots in a meaningful way going forward, and specifically wrote things to undo it later, dedicating an entire portion of Venom Inc. and letting people like Conway and Zdarsky put "outs" to undo it later in their Spiral arc and SSM#300, I think it was a Marvel/editor mandate that Black Cat had to be turned evil no matter what and that was that. We've seen Slott get overruled before when he wanted to bring back his "Spider-fighting style" that Parker learned from Shang-Chi, for later stories, and NIck Lowe said "no". It could be possible that this was something that was out of his hands. Mind you, it does not absolve Slott from how dumb the story itself was and how rushed and unfinished it felt and the damage the story did to Cat for awhile (still not as bad as the Evil That Men Do's damage, which Like Sins-Past, is quietly swept under the rug never to be spoken of). This isn't fact, just an assumption I have made based on all the shit I have read over the years. Could be a wild wrong theory, but whatever.
