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[meganbmoore]

Sexploitation in DC's reboot.

You know, I really do usually try to withhold final judgement on something until I've actually read/watched it.  But there are times I feel it is completely valid to be 100% judgmental about something with no intentions of ever checking it out.

Meanwhile, I watched the liveaction Taiwanese adaptation of Hayate the

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[mistaria]

The only thing I've seen Starfire in is the Teen Titans cartoon so this new incarnation of her is just... disgusting and sad.

And Catwoman... the saddest thing is we've gone from Bruce admitting she's the only woman who has ever opened his heart/whom he loves and trusts to Catwoman in the issue thinking "I don't know who Batman is and I don't care" and then having fanfiction-y sex with him. It's almost as bad as All-Star Batman and Robin.

Sigh.

The only other issue I've read of the new 52 is Batwoman, which I enjoyed. I've heard good things about Wonder Woman.

[meganbmoore]

I haven't followed batbooks in years and years, but...SIGH. And I remember the Batman and Robin scans and Frank Millers loving description of how to best exploit women in panel layouts.

i'm hopeful about WW, and may check out Batwoman.

[mistaria]

I would definitely recommend picking up Batwoman: Elegy if you're at all interested in Batwoman -- it has amazing art and a great story! The bits with her origin story are especially well done.

[lady_ganesh]

STARFIRE WAS ALWAYS FUCKING AWESOME OKAY.

[mistaria]

Um... okay? I like her in the Teen Titans cartoon and that's literally the only thing I've seen her in so I don't have an opinion on anything else (besides not liking how I've seen them treat her in the new 52).

[lady_ganesh]

I'm sorry, I just have a lot of FEELINGS about what they just did to Starfire. She was just as cool in the comics as she was in the Titans cartoon.

[mistaria]

Haha, no worries. I'm already sad to see the few panels I have, I can't imagine how I'd feel if I was invested in the character (a lot of FEELINGS describes it well though).

[lady_ganesh]

Teen Titans was the first comic I remember reading regularly. So, yeah.

[mistaria]

Oh, yeah. :[

Catwoman/Selina Kyle was the character who originally got me into comics but they've always tended to do bad things to the character so I was prepared for this (which is really unfortunate and does piss me off when I stop to think about it).

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah, that's more like my memories of the X-men. Oy.