A very comic booky weekend!

Mar 06, 2009 16:23

Woo! I finally got my Wonder Woman movie in the mail! AT LASSSSST! I'll watch it tonight with my parents. Then tomorrow night we're going to see Watchmen at the Cinnebarre. I tried calling John to see if he wanted to go, but his phone's disconnected or something. I'm kind of pissed he hasn't called, I thought he said he still wanted to be friends. But he's probably busy. Whatever.

Anyway, I'm completely stoked for both things. I'd been hearing mixed reviews of Wondy, there was an epic argument on Comic Bloc between this gay guy and one of the authoritarian moderators over whether it was good or not, and of course authrotarian!mod pulled out all the hostilities- it was 'Bloc, so of course they were rude to him for expressing an opinion that may be vaguely negative. He mentioned he dislikes Steve's piggishness and him apparently teaching Wondy a lesson and what not, and the "hot amazons bathing" fanservice. Authoritarian!mod mentioned the panel didn't want Steve to be a "nice guy" or "damsel in distress".

I'm going to give the creators benefit of the doubt and assume...okay, his name is Titansfan... was mistranslating, since I already stated I didn't like the guy in the first place, I can't imagine his comprehension skills are that great (he's not an idiot, just seems rather arrogant at times to me). But it brings an interesting point. Why CAN'T Steve be a damsel in distress? Isn't Wondy about turning gender roles on their head? Lois is often a DiD and still manages to be quite awesome. Steve can do the same. Heck, that's what Marston did with him. Wonder Woman was always having to save him.

As for "nice guy"...unless we're talking "Nice Guy TM", I don't see the problem here. According to TitansFan's tenuous translations, the panel says a air force guys likely to be tough and piggish. Okay, that's a stereotype. I'm sure there's plenty of nice, polite airforce guys. Why not go against the grain?

This is not a critisism of the movie, which I haven't seen yet, and am sure I will very much enjoy (I've heard some things that really excite me, and if bluefall liked it...well, I consider that the highest Wondy fan approval there is!) or the creators, just some general questions and observations.

Another is: I don't think Wonder Woman should be about men and woman "needing" each other. She comes from an island of all women who were just fine for thousands of years. She doesn't need men. That doesn't mean she doesn't want, or like them, just that they are not essential. It isn't prejudice. After all, would men need women if they were immortal? No. Of course, they'd WANT them around (even gay men would probably like having women as friends. Am I right? I mean, we're not just for the sexing).

What Wonder Woman is about to me is: "Look, here's a woman, she's awesome, she's independent, she kicks ass. Women ARE awesome. They are just as good as men. And they aren't an extension of men." That's as deep as it needs to go. It's not "men are superfluous". Maybe some guys felt insecure about that creating the movie, but get over it. Wonder Woman isn't a lesson on gender relations, other than that her lesson is "Woman and men are EQUAL." She's a lesson on being kickass and strong. That's what Marston intended, that's what Perez, Rucka and Simone put forward, the end.

Once again, not a critisism. Women and men need each other is a fine message, and I can deal with that, but I think the concept of WW is a little different.

So, off the Wonder Woman rant (I'm sure you'll get a lovely review when I ACTUALLY see the movie!) and on to comics this week.

Gotham Gazette: Already covered my feelings on the Steph part in the last post, so lets check out the other parts. I should mention the art was really good all around in this one shot, even Gulliem March's stuff, though not entirely pleasing in some parts, was surprisingly non porny considering his Oracle covers.

Vicki Vale: This was the story that most intrigued me (besides Steph's, but that was simply because it's Steph). I don't know much about Vicki besides 1. She was decent in the 1940's, and cared more about news than slobbering after Bruce. 2. "I have a date with Bruce Wayne! Cool!" and 3. She was in the 1980's Batman movie. But she seemed okay here. The cliffhanger intrigued me. HOW is Bruce going to take Vicki to the Robinson Ball? He's in a cave! Will it be Alfred disguised as Bruce????

Leslie Thompkins: Art is stiff, but clear, nice and neat. Not much is revealed about Leslie that we don't already know, 'cept I never thought her the type to walk around in high heeled boots. Clearly she has forgiven Bruce (I guess him "dying" softened her feelings.) Anyway, now she must perform surgery at the edge of the Cavelier's makeshift rapier! I'm disappointed she didn't mention Steph.

Harvey Bullock: Harvey must solve a murder! He has Officer Harper as his partner, and she is very whiny! Once again, nice art, not much happening. Apparently the murderer was already revealed in the Azreal mini (Spoiler: It's Azreal). I wonder who Harvey thinks it is though.

Decent one shot, probably wouldn't be getting the sequel if there weren't Steph though.

3.5/5

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade #4:

Streaky the Supercat! With superintelligence! I love the twist ending and Streaky thinking of Linda as his "pet". Belinda was surprisingly nice this issue, knocking out Lena for Linda, and hardly making any insulting comments at all (except one to Lena). Maybe Linda's rubbing off on her?

And it's sad to see Lena would turn on Linda if she knew she was Supergirl. She was very Lex like in her ranting about Superpeople defying the natural order. And of course saved the day with her Mad Science! Maybe Linda can convince Lena to stop with the crazy if she shows what a bad person Lex is and snaps Lena to reality. I hope so, I like Lena.

Also, loved the poke of the Silver Age, when Belinda said there was a Kryptonian technique that let you get rid of memories, and Linda was like "Not there isn't" and Belinda said "true enough". Total smack down of the "KryptonianSCIENCE answers everything!"

As usual, 5/5.

Superman New Krypton #1,

Pete Woods seems to be back on his game a bit. This was pretty good, I likes seeing Superman trying to solve stuff on New Krypton and being nice and teaching that kid to fly. Also his protest of the guilds, and conflict with Zod. I'm pretty intrigued with the Super Books right now. I'll prolly get the next of this series.

4/5

Secret Six #7

Now this was fantastic. Deadshot, I knew you wouldn't let me down! The fights! The zany dialogue! Bane badassery! The gory deaths!

My favorite moment would have to be Ragdoll tossing Hatter's hat off the bridge. Oh, Ragdoll. You're AWFUL.

Also the ending! Very intriguing!

And Nicola Scott knocks it out of the park as always.

5/5

A good week, really. I should mention I think I can finally post on  the insane journal. It did the validation thing when I tried my yahoo email, for some reason.

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