February 2012
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David Brothers: Art and Superheroines - Psylocke...
From Comics Alliance:
We got a big response to my last piece on sexualization in superhero art, and I’m back today with another look at the same premise: that comics art tells a story, and on a certain level, you can judge it according to how well it tells the story it’s trying to tell. This week, we’re going to compare and contrast how a female character is depicted in cape...
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David Brothers: Art and Superheroines - When...
From Comics Alliance:
A common problem for cape comics is what is best termed an out-of-proportion amount of sexualized art. It probably has its roots in superheroes as a power fantasy for boys, and it follows logically, if a bit sadly, that women would be portrayed as the ideal sexual partner, rather than an objectively idealized character. Whatever the reason, we’re mired in crappy...
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Matt Wayne: What Comic-Con International Wouldn't...
mattwayne:
I’ve debated airing this in public for two months now.
Comic-Con International is printing tributes to Dwayne in the San Diego Comic-Con program this year, and they approached me to write one. What I came back with was my sincere feelings, and something that I feel the industry needs to understand about itself: Dwayne should have been running the comics business, and...
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"Black Folks Making Comics": Still The Budgie
blackfolksmakingcomics:
“When I was a kid, I used to have this parakeet. Sometimes, when I’d open his cage to clean it, he’d escape. The little bird would see the backyard and make his move. Invariably, he’d head straight for the window, fast as he could and inevitably, crack his head on the windowpane .A barrier of glass, unseen and incomprehensible to him. So he’d try again, over and...
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"Heart of My Own": I've Always Looked At Batman...
missvoltairine:
As being NOT a story about a driven, badass crimefighter, but a story about a sheltered, naive man who perpetuates the cycle of his own trauma on an institutional level. Gotham doesn’t need Batman; Batman needs Gotham, and he needs it to stay the way it was when his parents died - he uses his personal wealth and power in such a way that Gotham’s development stays just as arrested...
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Imagine If You Will...
We all know the story. It’s 10:28 at night. A ten year old boy steps out of a 9:00 showing of The Mark of Zorro, accompanied by his parents. A common criminal demands their money, jewelry, pearls. The boy’s father takes a step forward to shield his family from him. The criminal panics, and the boy is orphaned in an eruption of sound and lead.
The boy becomes a man. The man becomes The...
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Nerd Shame
Yeah, not gonna lie, I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve spent that much time thinking about the Robins.
Here. Have a pretty picture.
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Five Years, Four Robins
“ROBIN ROBIN ROBIN” | Dustin Nguyen
With Batman’s position as one of the most profitable characters at DC Comics, his fictional history was left relatively unaltered in the recent relaunch of their line. Still, the history of superheroes has been significantly truncated in this new universe, and even Batman is feeling the crunch. No where is this more apparent than with regard...
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Galentine's Tournament!
dcwomenkickingass:
Yesterday’s battle of the blondes was won by Stephanie Brown and Kara Zor-El. They will move to the next round.
Today we have two long running friendships and a wonderful battle of sisters!!
The first pair have been pals since the first appeared in comics:
Wonder Woman and Etta Candy! Woo Woo.
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Wonder Woman’s little sister Donna Troy aka Wonder Girl aka Troia and...
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Galentine's Tournament!
dcwomenkickingass:
Huntress, Helena Bertinelli version, and Renee Montoya beat out Huntress, Helena Wayne, and Power Girl for favorite Galentine.
Today we have the match up of two pairs who definitely don’t play for the side of the angels.
The first couple met in Gulag who the knows how long ago and stayed BFFs through thick, thin and chopped off heads.
Scandal Savage and Jeanette from the...
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Good Grief!
Charlie Brown: If you're thinking of asking me if I got a lot of Valentines, the answer is no. Did you hear me? No! That means I didn't get any! None! Not one! The answer is no! Not a single solitary one! None! None! NONE!
Lucy van Pelt: I wasn't gonna ask you.
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WatchPeanuts Motion Comics: “Valentine’s Day”
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Galentine's Tournament!
dcwomenkickingass:
The world (or members of this tiny little niche of the world as it would seem) has voted and Barbara Gordon’s Galentine is … Dinah Laurel Lance aka Black Canary.
Today we have a battle of one thing DC has never been short of — blonde girls!
In one corner we have BFF (no “s” because already is plural -see below) the delightful Stephanie Brown version of Batgirl and the...
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Galentine's Tournament!
dcwomenkickingass:
On Friday Tora and Bea won their match with Zatanna and Mikey and will move on to the next round. Today’s match is showdown of Huntress vs. Huntress!
In one corner we have the pre-Crisis Power Girl and Huntress aka Helena Wayne. (Though this scan is post-Crisis. But pre NEW 52, but their friendship was so strong it survived time disruption/Crisis shenanigans.)
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When do you say, "enough"?
dcwomenkickingass:
“This is an initiative to build and reshape an industry we all love…” Dan DiDio, DC Nation June, 2011.
“This is a great opportunity for people to come in and start collecting comics .. We’re trying to get new fans, people who never even bought a comic before to get excited about the medium .. We’re here to grow the industry and we’re going to do everything we can to do that.”...
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"DC Comics Does Not Market Exclusively to White...
Of the fifty-two monthly titles launched by DC in September, six were solo books featuring lead characters of color.
Half of those books have since been canceled.
Of the fifty-two monthly titles launched by DC in September, six were books (solo or teams) lead by female characters.
In September, DC Comics had one Black writer working for them and one female writer working for them.
The one...
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An Example of the True Problem: More on "Lies,...
On Facebook, my post “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: On DC Comics’ Nielsen Surveys” caught some flak from a reader who called the post “misleading,” “misguided,” and “an example of the true problem.”
People spinning this controversy don’t think twice before shooting their mouths off, not understanding how their particular accusations...
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Notes on Geography: Where's Metropolis?
DC has never been perfectly consistent about the location of some of its more famous fictional cities, like Metropolis and Gotham. But I spotted this while reading O.M.A.C. #2:
It seems that the DCnU is taking some cues from the television series Smallville. Interstate Highway 35 stretches North-South from Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota, passing through Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa....
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Matt Seneca: "Your Wednesday Sequence | Mike... →
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe might be the most common place for readers to notice something different is being done with the sequencing of the imagery that makes up the comics they’re reading. A large part of what makes Mignola’s stories so wonderful is the way they behave like typical examples of action-adventure comics until they suddenly refuse to do so any longer, and parachute off...
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Geek Girl Con 2012 Announced!
On a much happier note:
gailsimone:
One of last year’s most wonderful surprises is BACK.
This August, in Seattle, the GEEK GIRL CON, one of the most fun, beautifully organized and inspiring conventions I’ve ever attended is back, back, back and I cannot WAIT.
Regardless of how you identify on the gender chart, this con is not to be missed. There are speakers from television, fiction, comics,...
needlesslycomplicated asked: Those kind of anon-suicide trolls are always dicks, but your response made me feel like you opened up a planner, flipped through it, tsk'd softly and said, "Mmm, sorry, I'm a little too busy right now. How do you feel about next month?"
Anonymous asked: You're an idiot. You should probably just kill yourself now.
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Alone Among the Infinite Earths
I find it telling that it requires an alternate universe to feature a Justice League led by people of color.
I find it telling that it requires three different universes, spread across fifty-two ongoing series and a line of graphic novels, to tell the stories of White teams of superheroes, yet it requires only one issue of one comic book to tell the story of a Black Superman.
I am excited for...
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The New Multiverse
We’re still settling into the universe of DC Comics newly rebooted line-up, but as part of their efforts to differentiate this from what has come before, this spring will introduce us to the new multiverse that surrounds it. Whether these worlds are limited to fifty-two as they were in the past decade, or returning to the titular infinite worlds of the first Crisis remains to be seen.
Known...
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