Red Dwarf: Back to Earth is a bit crap. I would say it's god awful, but that would imply it reaches a level of gory car crash interesting.

I guess it's not Chris Barrie's fault for aging over the past 20 years, but Rimmer's a hologram. I know I shouldn't expect Red Dwarf to make sense, but dude looks old, and parts of the special are smegging ( Read more... )

Naturally, I am an expert on 11 Heroes Nerd Girls Want to Date... and Why They Shouldn't, so I will help you, my internet friends, understand why this list is shit.

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Today's Fabulous Snow Day Find: Comics From the Guvmint.

Now, when I saw Superman and Wonder Woman: The Hidden Killer! I naturally hoped it would be about AIDS or syphilis or something. Like maybe Superman didn't get tested after those aliens forced him to do porn with Big Barda.

( Well, gee, what IS the hidden killer? )

Next April I'm going to present a paper on Batwoman I/Kathy Kane, so that means more stupid comics panels and complaining for you, internet!

I'm sure you can all guess what happened when Batman, Robin, and Batwoman encountered the nefarious Catman:


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Kendra asked me what else has been ruined by pursuing an MA in English. And I would go off on the incredible misogyny of the Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within" in which Kirk's Evil Transporter Duplicate sexually assaults a female crew member. And this sexual assault is used for the end of the episode joke.

( I am easily appeased )

I'm trying to get an article together for the Journal of Comics and Graphic Novels so I can get some academic street cred. It's an issue on gender, so I was briefly toying with looking at The Killing Joke and Heart of Hush and if they're both fridgings.

( Lots of Bat-pictures )

It's Library Book Sale Week at VCU, and man oh man, do I wish nobody had told me how to find where the book sale is. Not that it matters--I'm sure my greedy, book-coveting little heart would've led me there eventually ( Read more... )

I can't decide if I'm miffed about Catwoman's Road Home issue. PS--Spoilers for anybody who actually gives two shits about The Return of Bruce Wayne/The Road Home and has no idea what shocking things are happening in the bat-books. Well, The Road Home anyway since once again I can't even stand to look at Batman and RobinI think maybe I should go ( Read more... )

This is exactly what I was bitching about with the "it's just a drawing so there are only pantyshots if you decide to draw them" issue:


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I've been following DC Women Kicking Ass and voting in the October Madness polls to determine the most kick-assingest DC Woman ( Read more... )