Rant

[mrsfrankenstien]

I am a teenage girl.
I read comics.
That aren't Strangers in Paradise or Sandman.
I haven't read a single word of SiP.
I like superheroes.
I am just as entitled to my "adolescent power fantasy" than the middle-aged men who seem to be the majority of comics fans.

Comments

[crispygecko]

I agree with this post. I'm not as into superhero comics as I used to be, partly because the majority of the women in them (and the movies they've spawned) piss me off. There are some comic books with kickass heroines that I actually like (e.g. David Mack's Kabuki comics), but they're hardly mainstream or anything.

They're not superhero comics, either, and that annoys me. Currently I read more fanfiction than I do actual comics, just to get my power fantasy fix.

Anyway. I found this by googling something comic-related (I think it was "OTP fanfiction" or something) and had to comment.

[mrsfrankenstien]

If you're interested in feminism in mainstream comics, you should definitely check out Girl Wonder. It's a pretty new site, but there're all sorts of interesting articles and suchlike. (The "Girls Read Comics" blog there pretty much inspired me to rant about comics here.)

[crispygecko]

awesome, thanks for the link

[katarik]

And "Look! Batwoman's a lesbian!" isn't gonna cut it, unless she gets her own series, written by a woman, in which she is taken seriously as a character.)

Last I heard, there was a Batwoman book being planned, and the writer was supposed to be Devin Grayson.

Which pleases me, because I like Devin, but you might not.

[mrsfrankenstien]

I had heard that, yes. But shortly before I made that post, I had read somewhere (...and now I forget where...) that someone high-up at DC (possibly Didio?) had said that there was no Batwoman book planned after all.

I really hope that Devin does write it, though. That is a book I would definitely buy.

About Arrowette.

[anonymous]

Actually she showed up again in a Teen Titans / Outsiders annual or secret files or one of those things. It was a short story with Todd Nauck art (very rushed art though) where Cissie visits Wondergirl and for reasons only comic-logic can explains a pair of villains attack. She is pretty much still in continuity, I guess, but I don't think there are many hopes of seeing her coming back any time soon.

Re: About Arrowette.

[mrsfrankenstien]

Ah, but this is the New Earth, and something tells me Young Justice and everything it included no longer counts. (But I will have to track that down, thank you. Cissie really is/was one of my favourite characters.)