minx (rant ho!)
Okay, so DC has a new imprint: Minx.
This imprint will focus on girl-oriented comics.
While I do applaud any effort to include the usually-ignored gender, I can't help but feel somewhat... skeptical. I mean, I really hope they don't take a lesson from manga and decide to start churning out shoujo-style crap. I hate romance. I hate poor, predictable plots revolving around girls trying to find themselves and also some love. I hate how wimpy and sappy girls in these weak comics are.
Another reason to feel skeptical: the male/female ratio when it comes to the amount of artists and writers that have been announced for this year's line-up of Minx comics. Most of them are male. Two females: an artist and a writer. Out of twelve writers and artists.
BUT that may just be skepticism and sexism by my part. Usually, when I think of men writing/drawing women I think high-heeld, big-tittied vixens in spandex strangling the villain with their legs whilst wearing a porn-face. Of course, this isn't always true, as Jhonen Vasquez, Neil Gaiman, Ross Campbell and Aaron Alexovich have proved to me that men are perfectly capable of creating realistic women.
By the by, Ross Campbell and Aaron Alexovich are part of the line-up of this year's comics. Campbell is doing one book, while Alexovich illustrates Confessions of a Blabbermouth (out now) as well as releasing a second comic later in the year.
Finally: Minx. Couldn't they have picked a better name? Couldn't they have picked out something that didn't mean sassy, sexy chick? You can chalk this up to women taking the word back, much like "nigger" and "faggot" are taken back by their respective cultures (though "minx" is hardly as strong a word).
Well, at least they didn't call the imprint Girl Power. Those words just stink of Spice Girls and how-to-be-cool-and-unique pre-teen girl books.
At any rate, the presence of Campbell and Alexovich is enough incentive to give Minx a try to check out their books. We'll see what happens as time moves on.
ANYWAY, enough ranting. WAHEY, schools pretty much over now. June 1st = grades. Then I think I may work in Ilion again this summer. Awesome. Very awesome. This means I get to find out how Planet One is doing and sign a contract that stops me from telling any of you suckers anything about the movie.
--Blanca
This imprint will focus on girl-oriented comics.
While I do applaud any effort to include the usually-ignored gender, I can't help but feel somewhat... skeptical. I mean, I really hope they don't take a lesson from manga and decide to start churning out shoujo-style crap. I hate romance. I hate poor, predictable plots revolving around girls trying to find themselves and also some love. I hate how wimpy and sappy girls in these weak comics are.
Another reason to feel skeptical: the male/female ratio when it comes to the amount of artists and writers that have been announced for this year's line-up of Minx comics. Most of them are male. Two females: an artist and a writer. Out of twelve writers and artists.
BUT that may just be skepticism and sexism by my part. Usually, when I think of men writing/drawing women I think high-heeld, big-tittied vixens in spandex strangling the villain with their legs whilst wearing a porn-face. Of course, this isn't always true, as Jhonen Vasquez, Neil Gaiman, Ross Campbell and Aaron Alexovich have proved to me that men are perfectly capable of creating realistic women.
By the by, Ross Campbell and Aaron Alexovich are part of the line-up of this year's comics. Campbell is doing one book, while Alexovich illustrates Confessions of a Blabbermouth (out now) as well as releasing a second comic later in the year.
Finally: Minx. Couldn't they have picked a better name? Couldn't they have picked out something that didn't mean sassy, sexy chick? You can chalk this up to women taking the word back, much like "nigger" and "faggot" are taken back by their respective cultures (though "minx" is hardly as strong a word).
Well, at least they didn't call the imprint Girl Power. Those words just stink of Spice Girls and how-to-be-cool-and-unique pre-teen girl books.
At any rate, the presence of Campbell and Alexovich is enough incentive to give Minx a try to check out their books. We'll see what happens as time moves on.
ANYWAY, enough ranting. WAHEY, schools pretty much over now. June 1st = grades. Then I think I may work in Ilion again this summer. Awesome. Very awesome. This means I get to find out how Planet One is doing and sign a contract that stops me from telling any of you suckers anything about the movie.
--Blanca