I’d like to take a moment to talk about the most underrated of in-continuity Batgirls: Stephanie Brown. Now don’t get me wrong. I love Barbara Gordon, and I love Cassandra Cain. They can both beat the crap out of pretty much anything, and on top of that, they are both well rounded, funny characters with rich back stories and they both represent groups of people [...]
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So the big big comic book news in the last two weeks has been the reboot plan of the DC Universe. They are starting with 52 #1 books. Starting from scratch. People are getting new origins, new stories, new line-ups, new love interests, and some characters are going to disappear complete. They seem to be making a huge push to use more minority characters, giving [...]
So I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I spent mine at Free Comic Book Day, helping customers and handing out free shwag! I didn’t get to see the insides of any of the free comics, so it came as a shock when DCwomenkickingass.tumblr.com posted about a suspect image in DC’s contribution to our yearly “Come get free comics!” shindig. One of the panels in [...]
So the other day a couple pieces of art circulated. They’re by Greg Horn. They’re…less than flattering. Yep. That happened. So wonderful Phil Noto, as a gift to Gail Simone and Marjorie Liu drew this: So thanks, Phil Noto! It’s nice to know that women aren’t the only people who are creeped out by [...]
I always wind up forgiving Garth Ennis. I know a lot of people don’t. I know a lot of people think that if it’s true that a writer puts their own personal experiences into their work, then Ennis has led the bloodiest, most disturbing, debauched and terrifying life in the history of ever. People die in horrible ways in his writing. People are raped, set [...]
With Cornell’s last issue, we find out what was really going on with Una Nemo, our psychotic comic book straw feminist from last month. Surprise! The whole dead ex-girlfriend thing was just a front! Vikki Vale is fine (even though she’s tied up in a cupboard; girl can’t catch a break!), and the Dead Ex bag was filled with sawdust and cardboard. Una gets another [...]
So I feel like, after it being all over Twitter and Tumblr, I should give an explanation for the “Mansplain” panel from Batman and Robin #18. For those of you who don’t know, yes, the villain told Dick Grayson’s Batman that he doesn’t get to Mansplain to her. It was some funny shit, but at the same time, with context…slightly demeaning. If you actually read, [...]
