nevermore999, my friend and fellow Attacking Fangirl attended Heroes Con this year. She reported about various things, including the DC Sunday Conversation panel, where comics creator Bill Willingham stated that he "wanted to gun down those girls who kept asking about the memorial case."

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Apparently the Ghostbusters manga is cracktastic. I think I'm going to have to hunt it down sometime.

( People are always staring at her chest, right? )

I haven't read a great deal of comics featuring the character Amanda Waller. I've probably read smattering of Suicide Squad issues and other random comics where she's appeared in her role as a government agent and leader of the Suicide Squad/Task Force X. My first exposure to the character was probably through the DCAU, Justice League: UnlimitedBut ( Read more... )

This post contains spoilers for Cry for Justice.

( and you're not gonna like them )

" You cannot find meaningful female or minority characters prior to the Bronze Age. So the obsession with nostalgia over the Silver and Golden Ages, by its nature, is exclusionary to women and minorities." - bluefall

That is it. That is exactly it.

There's a blog post entitled "A Rant About Women" that's been circulating online recently, and together with this response to it, I've been wondering about how it all may apply to the comics industry.

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I'm reading a lot of reactions to the announcement that Marvel is releasing Girl Comics, and I'm finding enough of them that it warrants a "special edition" post to WFA (and I'm writing this post before I finish the WFA one so that I can include this--OH HO HO I AM SNEAKY LIKE THAT ( Read more... )

You know, sometimes the problems I have with how female characters are treated in comics seem so nebulous and plentiful that they are hard to pin down and explain properly. ( But I found a way! Cut for length. )

[Some months back I got into a bad habit of writing posts but never actually getting around to posting them. I hate leaving things unfinished, so I'm going to try and post a few, despite their being a little dated now ( Read more... )

I really don't like Guillem March's way of drawing women. Their faces have this bland air-brushed make-up advertisement-in-a-magazine look that's just a huge turn-off. And their bodies are weirdly proportioned and posed.

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