February 2012
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Still continuing my journey through Fantastic Four and I’m up to the part where Sue is pregnant. This is interesting solely for the reason that it’s 1968 and things were a little different. Even after she got a bump in her power level Sue has yet to be as active on the team as the guys (though I will say that she is always willing to face danger with them) but with a baby on the way...
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Oh, you've got to be kidding me
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I’m a big fan of Mikel Janin and was happy when he got covers of Justice League Dark
Zatanna looks pretty hot there, huh?
I just downloaded my copy of the comic. Here’s the cover. Find the arrow.
Yes, they gave her cleavage. They took that lovely corset and made it into a plunging neckline.
What the actual fuck… that is completely unnecessary. Do...
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Art and Superheroines: Psylocke as Drawn by Greg... →
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Costume and character designs are just part of effective characterization in comic art. How those elements are portrayed are just as important, and a solid execution can make even a mediocre design work. ComicsAlliance has put up a great comparison of two artists depicting the same superheroine in wildly different forms, one being bizarrely sexualized to the...
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Four More Times Reed Richards Was A Dick
There are sure to be many many more instances as I’m only up to 1965.
Here, Reed has (once again) created a cure for Thing. Only, Thing doesn’t want to take it because his girlfriend (blind sculptor Alicia Masters, step-daughter of the Puppermaster) loves him as he is and, hey, maybe he’s starting to accept himself as he is? Stop policing other people’s bodies, Reed!
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In one of their issues the FF took it upon themselves to answer fan mail. They retold their origin, Ben and Reed talked about being in college and fighting in The War and Sue was upset because there were people who pointed that she didn’t really do anything (which is true). Reed’s answer upon seeing his lady love so distraught? Compare her to Lincoln’s mother! Mrs Lincoln...
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January 2012
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I really like digital comics. I like sharing them, reading them and discarding them when I’m done (hard copies are much more permanent to me) I like discovering new titles (and then purchasing a hard copy, a habit that translates to my music collection) and I especially love reading the volume ones of already well-established titles (ie X-Men, Iron Man, Avengers, Green Lantern).
I’m...
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Women in Refrigerators 13... →
A topic worth discussing, though I personally disagree with the examples used. Bette Kane was a sidekick in over her head and Barbara Gordon’s shooting was, well, pretty well in character for what someone like the Joker would do in order to break her father (never mind that she flourished as a character afterwards and Alan Moore never intended for her to stay in that wheelchair). I think an...
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So wait. Before Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze and the Challengers and team-ups with Spider-Man and Wolverine and The Punisher (we won’t even go into that awful Nic Cage movie) Ghost Rider was a post-Civil War school teacher named Carter Slade with a horse named Banshee? And he had magic Indian powder that made him glow?
There’s a kid sidekick, too (for now at least) and helpful...
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DC's Business Plan
Besides the obvious that, yes, bitches DO love Batman titles, I’d like to ask this: Why aren’t you (general you, personal you; this is a rhetorical question after all) reading/buying DC’s NON-Batman titles? You know, titles like Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, Batwoman, Supergirl, Batgirl (ok, so I’ve listed two Batman related titles, sue me), the Huntress mini … How...
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Oh God, the SLANG. “Not!” “Gnarly!” “Mondo rad!” It’s almost as good as the CROSS-OVERS. The Gen13 kids aren’t even out of the Super Secret Government Base and they’re teaming up with Pitt. Somehow I forgot just how spectacularly 90s this series was.
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So I’m reading the Gen13 miniseries (I’ll be tackling the whole thing after) and I realize that Freefall is a chain smoker. Well, not realize realize; I knew she smoked. I read this book when it was first published. I guess, just contrast that with how smoking’s handled in comics today, nearly 20 years later (and man does that make me feel old); there’d be no way you could...
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