throughthebrush

throughthebrush

Name: Jennifer Smith

Bio: Almost 6 years ago, a combination of my childhood love for the 90s X-Men cartoon and a visit with comic-reading friends led me to see X-Men: The Last Stand on the big screen.  As I left the theater, I thought, "The comics have got to be better than that, right?"  So I asked a friend to lend me Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, which I'd been told was the cure plot, done well.  When I told him I loved it, that same friend lent me The Dark Phoenix Saga.  And Runaways.  And Grant Morrison's New X-Men run.  And New Avengers.  And X-Factor.  And She-Hulk.  And Alias.  And so it began. A year later, I was preparing to write my 100+ page undergraduate senior thesis on Captain America.  Now I'm reading 10 or more books a week and blogging about comics regularly with the Fantastic Fangirls, I've interned at Marvel in the X-Office, and I'm focusing on comics scholarship as a PhD student in media and cultural studies. Contact: throughthebrush@gmail.com http://www.fantasticfangirls.org http://throughthebrush.wordpress.com

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BREAKING: ASTONISHING X-MEN – Northstar is Getting Married
May 22, 2012 1:33 pm What I want to know is, why are Anole and Rockslide making eyes at each other?
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iFanboy Make Comics Podcast #7 – Professionalism
February 7, 2012 7:11 pm Just wanted to mention that I really appreciate the attempts to be a bit more careful regarding gender-neutral language in these podcasts. I found the first few episodes a bit disheartening in the way they seemed to unconsciously imply that only men would be involved in this industry. People of all genders can use this kind of advice. :)
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Top 5: Worst Avengers
January 24, 2012 7:23 pm I'm not sure what's so bad about Living Lightning. A sparse record of past activities only means the character hasn't been given a fair chance. All it would take is one good writer to give him a decent story. And considering how many Avengers are straight white dudes, I'm really hesitant to just throw away a gay Latino character.
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Pick of the Week – 08.24.2011 – Wolverine #14
August 24, 2011 10:44 pm It is. If you go back to that page in Enemy of the State, Guedes was redrawing Romita's scene exactly. That was the intention. :)
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Pick of the Week – 08.24.2011 – Wolverine #14
August 24, 2011 5:48 pm I wrote the recap that's in this issue, but I also did the ballooning (laying out a guideline for the letterer), so I read this script awhile ago, during my summer internship. After I was done, I actually had to sit back and take a few deep breaths because I was so viscerally horrified, and then I immediately went to tell the editors how effective it was. It's a truly brilliant issue, and Jason Aaron deserves all the credit you've given him here. The final moment with the young boy at the end, too, is a secondary gut punch -- in an issue that almost didn't need anything other than Logan's devastation -- and it's a credit to Aaron's talent that he pulls off both.
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DON’T MISS: All Nighter #1 with David Hahn
June 20, 2011 10:35 pm This podcast really did pique my interest in this story, but i have to ask: what, exactly, is so "cheesy and weird" about targeting comics at teenage girls?  And why is a mandate of writing for that audience considered something oppressive that creators feel the need to cast aside?
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WonderCon 2011: Heroes Reunite for Iron Man and Wolverine Anime Series on G4
April 2, 2011 11:15 pm Well, that's one, "Well, of COURSE" and one "Yeahbuhwah?"
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To Chicago! To C2E2 2011!
March 17, 2011 6:47 pm I just realized I hadn't commented here, but I'll be there and am very excited to see the iFanboys and members of the iFanbase again.
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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Movie Posters Are Cause For Reflection
March 1, 2011 12:06 pm That is... some pretty hideous photoshop.  And can we get a comma, or at least two separate lines, for those taglines?  There's a natural pause that's just completely absent here.

The photos themselves are awesome, and I'm looking forward to the movie itself, but these are kind of hideous. 
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MMXI = Year of the X-Men Continues – Age of Apocalypse?
February 24, 2011 2:20 pm I almost hope that's NOT Jean, because EGAD that's a hideous design, from the hair to the "Emma Frost would wear this in white" costume.
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