I Hate to Say It...

[mrdankelly]

But sometimes Joss Whedon's ponyboy take on male characters really skeeves me out.

Dude needs to stop writing comics for a little while too.

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[dandycat]

I like what he's doing with Astonishing X-Men (though I admit I haven't read the most recent issue, which my husband says will make me question why I still read comics) but I'm a little peeved at what he's doing to Runaways. It's like he never met a happy relationship he didn't instinctively want to destroy.

[mrdankelly]

It's like he never met a happy relationship he didn't instinctively want to destroy.

I think I remember him joking about that on a commentary track. It made me think, "Dude, doesn't that mean you're kind of in a rut?" I refer to that as manufactured drama.

[dandycat]

Thank you.

[xgray]

it took four people to make that?

to me it was web comic quality. sort of a scifi version of questionable content.

[wanderingaengus]

Whedon can be annoying in writing female characters, too, but I found that little comic cute. (At least as much fun as G. Hernandez & P. Bagge's "Yeah!")

And what exactly is "ponyboy"? I could google, but I doubt if I'd get exactly your drift.

[mrdankelly]

Whedon always emasculates his male protagonists to empower his female leads. It's one of his clichés, along with ruining happy relationships. I don't believe a feminist message necessitates inverting the power structure.

[gilmoure]

...emasculates his male protagonists...

He makes them all British?

[mrdankelly]

No, he makes some of them Irish too, so the girl viewers can cream over their sexay, if inaccurate, accents.

[asphalteden]

That gent is seriously overexposed and WHY.

[gilmoure]

I don't know who the three of the authors are but Nate Piekos has a great web comic: Atland.

Cool!