For International Women’s Day, I wanted to spotlight cakes or cookies featuring women superheroes. I remembered this spectacular set of superhero cookies I featured a decade ago. I thought it would be really cool to share them again and to look at what has happened to each of these 12 Women Superheroes in the last decade.
These cookies were made by Audrey’s Cookies, who unfortunately doesn’t appear to be in business anymore. The superheroes featured on these cookies are Batgirl, Storm, Supergirl, She-Hulk, Psylocke, Rogue, X-23, Elektra, Big Barda, The Black Cat, Wonder Woman and Tigra.
A lot has changed in the decade since I last featured these cookies. Modern comics books and movies have really began to focus more on female creators, characters and fans. Because of this, there are more woman superheroes than ever and they’re represented so much better.
In the last decade, a lot of these characters have thrived and grown in popularity.
- Supergirl had a TV show that lasted six seasons and DC recently announced plans for a Supergirl movie.
- Wonder Woman starred in two movies.
- She-Hulk had her own TV series on Disney+.
- Rogue got married. She and Gambit have had a monthly comic book series and a few mini-series since their marriage.
- Laura Kinney no long goes by the name X-23. These days she’s Wolverine. Laura has had her own Wolverine comic book series and has joined the X-Men.
- Last month, Marvel announced that they’ll be publishing a new series starring Storm. Plus, Storm is one of the main characters in the extremely popular X-Men Red.
- Elektra is featured every month in Daredevil and for awhile she even took on the mantle of Daredevil. She has also been featured in Savage Avengers.
- Black Cat has become so popular that she has had a monthly comic book series and multiple mini-series over the last few years.
