Heroes and misogyny

[keestone]

I've mentioned in a few conversations now that I found Heroes  misogynist to the point where I couldn't enjoy what had had potential to be a good TV show.  donnaustin  actually noticed it before me (possibly because he is far more widely read than me in comics in general and the superhero genre in particular), and mentioned the "Women in  Refrigerators"

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[keestone]

According to Wikipedia, she died in the tie-in graphic novel (what? She wasn't even worth an onscreen death?). I'd been wondering why she disappeared since she had a pretty cool power and it was an awkward "Where'd she go" moment as far as I was concerned, so I added that. (It was like watching Vertigo and wondering where the only interesting female character went to.) I honestly doubt I'll be watching the next season. I felt like I was watching too much TV this year to begin with, what with Bones, House, Battlestar Galactica, and The Dresden Files (all of which made me happy to watch them rather than annoying the heck out of me).

It's a lovely little comic, isn't it? :D I pretty much read the comics donnaustin recommends me, and I think when it comes to mainstream superhero stuff, he mainly gets the Marvel Ultimate line (not to mention, he knows me well enough to know what I'd be likely to throw across the room). The Authority and Planetary are both Wildstorm which is an imprint of DC, so I guess you could count them for DC. (I didn't mention any Vertigo titles, since they're not really superhero stuff.) I'll bow to the expertise of others in analyzing the various WiR problems in comics though, and just keep reading the good stuff donnaustin gives me. :)

[htbthomas]

I mainly read on recs, too. Though now, as a result, I read an ungodly number of titles, mostly Marvel, with a couple DC (Superman-related usually). What else has donnaustin recommended you? Should I ask him?

Another Wiki I looked at mentioned that Hana had been communicating with Micah post-death. So maybe she's not as dead as she seems? And her website (the NBC sockpuppet) is apparently still active... *shrugs*

Well, I understand why you're ditching the show. I've done that to other shows with much less provocation.

[keestone]

Could be, but it's just as likely that Hana communicating with Micah post-death will end up as some sort of push for him to have a story arc in which he becomes less of a kiddy-pawn. (I've never looked at any of the Heroes stuff extraneous to the TV show itself, partly because I watched the show on Irish TV, and it aired a good while after it did in the States.)

I'm sure donnaustin'd be willing to recommend. He's almost as bad of a comics pusher as I am a SF&F books pusher. :) He doesn't really pick up that many superhero titles. IIRC, his favorite titles include Transmetropolitan and Planetary. Among other things, he's currently feeding me Fables and Jack of Fables, Y the Last Man, Crossing Midnight, Buffy season 8, Runaways . . . I can't remember what else right now. Oh yeah. I'm halfway through the most recent collection of Ultimate Fantastic Four. I set it down and got busy, and then The Sharing Knife: Legacy got published, and then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows got published, and then I got a few other books I'd been waiting for.