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From Cougar Town to Comics: Older Women Kicking Butt

Cougar Town, one of the funniest shows on network TV and Bill Lawrence’s follow-up to his smash […]

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, one of the funniest shows on network TV and Bill Lawrence’s follow-up to his smash hit sitcom Scrubs, returned to the airwaves this week after a very long hiatus. To celebrate, we here at ComicBook.com have put together a short list of five of the most kick-ass women over 30 in comics, only one of whom has recently been retconned to be under 30 again.Yeah, yeah, we considered a list of comics’s hot moms, but that’s sexist, a little bit creepy (they’re cartoons!) and doesn’t allow for us to share pictures of Aunt May holding a gun she clearly borrowed in the ’70s after a one-night-stand with “Dirty” Harry Callahan.Aunt May (The Amazing Spider-Man)Spider-Man’s Aunt May is best known as being an aging, frail liability to the hero who’s constantly in danger and frequently at death’s door. But she’s had more brushes with supervillains than just about any other old lady you can think of and always comes out on top. She’s even shown characters as intimidating as Venom and Wolverine who’s boss, as seen in the illustration below.

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