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November 16, 2012 9:31 am Yeah, I'm confused on the connection of Cosplay=Female. I know plenty of guys who cosplay. I've been to a handful of cons and both men and women cosplay so why is the connection made and deemed fact? I think there is a lot going on with this topic and this article which needs to be broken down and analyzed properly. The standard reaction to this new drama bomb in the comics community is to rush to the defense of the geek girl and denounce the claim, which is the correct thing to do. My complaint is that all the articles never seem to delve any deeper then the equivalent of spraying the wrong do-ers with a written water bottle and yelling "Stop that". I honestly believe this all ties into the expansion the comics community is seeing and the past drama over female creators getting incorporation into superhero backs. Everything is connected. These problems don't exist in a vacuum. Has the current trend of lassez-faire comic fandom really just created comic fans that not just accept new and interesting things and people but also led to tolerance of intolerance? Just a thought.
November 14, 2012 12:33 pm This whole debate intrigues me, specifically the "real" geek part. It's very similar to when a sports team becomes good and everyone starts rooting for them. The fans who have been there during the bad years, rooting for a bad team feel like the bandwagon fans do not deserve their status as fans. Really, they just enjoy the sport/team a different way. Really, this whole thing could be a reaction to bandwagon comic fans (and yes you can have bandwagon fans in comics, especially after the success of the movies). What is really fascinating is the bandwagon fan growth is being tied into the feminist uprising in comics. It could be that the largest growth sector in comic readership/fandom (or maybe just the largest perceived growth sector) is the female demographic. So in turn, you are seeing a lot of bandwagon anger thrown towards female comic readers. Or maybe it could be that the with all the extra scrutiny thrown on the needed female presents in comics over the last few years has created a sensitivity to criticism on female fans. And I would argue that the most (or perceived to be) Cosplayers tend to be female and thus any attacks on cosplayers are attacks on females. It's really interesting. Sorry for rambling, I'm a former Anthropology student whose fiancee is a women studies fanatic. These sorts of cultural discussions get thrown around my house a lot.
May 3, 2012 9:31 am The Avengers got out one of the Hulk chairs from storage for Hank. They ordered them in mass because Hulk likes to smash. Also, it's the 60s, the Wasp's chair is in the kitchen.
February 1, 2012 8:20 am Go to YouTube. Type in David After Dentist. That is the most accurate way to describe what I'm feeling right now.
January 9, 2011 7:19 pm Yay! Someone else likes Stars!
April 15, 2010 10:48 pm After reading the JMS quotation, I am less then thrilled. I've been following WW for a while now and Simone (be it it wasn't very good) just did a story arc with Paradise Island being destroyed and WW doing some soul searching. Things were just starting to get back to normal. DC really has no idea how to do WW at this point. Its just throw one crisis after another at her and try to force some character development that way. I hope JMS does something special here but it just feels like more of the same...
February 4, 2010 10:23 am Amen
December 30, 2009 2:28 pm

I went with Hunter's Fortune for the Challenge. It's a book published by BOOM! studios and from the creator of Eureka. I was rather impressed with it. The story is of a slacker hero named Hunter who is given a rather larger fortune (They were rather creative with this title, No?). There is a catch though, he has to find the legendary sword Excalibur before he can spend the money on what he wants. Its like Indiana Jones and Brewster's Millions had a weird, awesome, flipper baby comic love child. The first two issues are out and I picked them up. The first issue is a little slow but the second issue is just flat out awesome and accomplishes a lot. Sadly, the series is only a 4 issue limited so the adventure is going to have to start wrapping up in the next issue. I definitely recommend it and I would like to thank the ifanboys for offering this challenge, without it I would have never found this book.