I've been reading a lot (or at least a few) fantasy books lately for girls and now I have feelings about Girls Who Are Special. I’m not dismissing them all with a "Mary Sue" label because they're not always written badly or as overly perfect. But there is a related wish fulfillment idea there. But I just never really related to that particular wish ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of discussion about Jason Todd showing up in the latest B&R with red hair. Which means that Judd Winick has decided to go with Grant Morrison's retcon about Jason's hair color. I didn't feel passionately about it either way, but having now read the issue I will say ( It makes me feel like I'm not reading about Jason. )

I saw a comment on tumblr about Starfire, the character. Now, I love Kory. I think she's awesome. If I was listing great DC females, she'd definitely be on it. Where I differed from the one comment I read was about...that outfit. Yes, Starfire's outfit. It was described on tumblr as "fairly fan service-y" but the commenter liked the way George ( Read more... )

I was reading a discussion on Scans_Daily today that circled around one of my pet peeves: the importance of a "normal" life. I don't know why this bugs me--I can remember getting into a big fight about it once regarding a kids' book years ago ( Read more... )

So I keep throwing myself into hopeless conversations on tumblr--it's not a platform that's made for conversations anyway--and this one was about Batman the rich fascist who beats up poor people. It got me thinking about two things, one Batman related and one more general, and I’ll talk about the Batman part here first. It’s not that I don't think ( Read more... )

So I keep thinking about the whole discussion on tumblr about the female audience of comic books in response to an interview with Paul Levitz, former DC president, saying among other things "I’m not sure that young women are as interested in reading about superheroes. The fundamental dynamic of the superhero story has historically been more ( Read more... )

Okay, so Damian Wayne. Robin. There was a discussion of the preview for the next Teen Titans up, where Damian gets into it with Ravager, and that led to talk about his sexist jokes in the comments. I find them really creepy. I find it especially creepy that they have become the go-to joke with Damian. ( And while I have certainly blamed Grant Morrison for a lot of things that bother me about the Damian character, I don't think this is one of them. )

So I saw Under the Red Hood and liked it. Jensen Ackles is kind of my Jason now and NPH, well we knew he'd be awesome. It's funny how that story makes such a good standalone, yet in the comics in general Jason continues to seem neither here nor there. The movie benefits from having no confusion on this score--Bruce failed him, and he's now his ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of trouble logging into LJ. Like, it didn't let me all day at work. Hopefully it will get fixed soon!

Anyway, this post...In which I make sad face about Bat comics. :-(

I was reading Red Robin #12 today and it was great. I’ve loved this comic from the beginning and this arc did everything it set out to do. But even though ( Read more... )

I responded to something today by pretty much going off on a tangent, but an interesting tangent to me, at least. I objected to the idea that Batman the character is, at heart, a revenge fantasy. ( I disagree. )