VOODOO #1
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Art and cover by SAMI BASRI
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A friend of a friend of a friend that works at DC comics was able to get a copy of the first draft of the script to Aquaman #1 which is radically different then what what the stands on Wednesday. I read the script last night and thought I would share with you the first page.
PAGE 1
PANEL 1
ESTABLISHING SHOT OF THE NEW YORK SKYLINE – NIGHT. LARGE FULL MOON SHINES DOWN ON A BUSTLING CITY.
CAPTION BOX
“I’m a fish out of water. Here in this city of a million stories mine is no different.
PANEL 2
SHOT OF A STREET CORNER IN A SEEDIER PART OF THE TOWN. NEON LIGHTS FLICKER SELLING SEX AND OTHER VICES. THERE ARE A FEW MEN STANDING AROUND, SOME LEAN ON THE BUILDINGS. TRASH IS SCATTERED AROUND. THIS ISN’T A NICE PLACE TO BE.
CAPTION BOX
“There was a time when I part of something bigger. Something extraordinary. But time has a way of taking away everything you love, one bit at a time.”
PANEL 3
A CLOSER SHOT OF THE MEN STANDING ON THE STREET CORNER. WE SEE THAT THEY ARE DRESSED IN TIGHT PANTS AND OPENED SHIRTS. SOME ARE NOT EVEN WEARING SHIRTS. BEYOND THESE MEN IN THE FOREGROUND WE SEE A MAN IN A ORANGE AND GREEN COSTUME.
CAPTION BOX
“I use to be a King. But now I’m just another queen.”
PANEL 4
MEDIUM CLOSE UP SHOT OF THE MAN IN THE BACKGROUND. WE NOW SEE THAT IS IS AQUAMAN. WE STANDS WITH THE OTHER MALE PROSTITUTES. THE “JOHNS” WALK BY CHECKING THEM OUT. LEERING AND DROOLING.
CAPTION BOX
“Just another guy in the big city, sucking cock to get by. How did I get here? How did come to this?
PAGE 2
SPLASH PAGE OF AQUAMAN ON HIS KNEES IN A DIRTY MOTEL ROOM ABOUT TO UNZIP SOME GUYS PANTS.
TITLE: DC COMICS PROUDLY PRESENTS AQUAMAN IN: MY OWN PRIVATE ATLANTIS
Yeah right. Never happen. But you get my point here right? The leading men in all the first issues so far have had all their clothes on and been presented in a respectable fashion, but it’s totally okay to show Voodoo straddling some dudes dick for money in her first issue.
Now I’m totally going to buy a lot of the new series coming out and pretty excited about them, but I just gotta say this just once about Voodoo #1…. fuck you DC Comics
Art: 4 - Very Good
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Hello Burritoclock, I’m guessing your comment had something to do with the homosexual nature of my “review” (yeah, I know it’s more of a rant then review) but before you go off half-cocked (pun indended) I am not gay-bashing in the slightest.
I was using the movie My Own Private Idaho as a spring board for my pseudo review. In the movie, River Phoenix stars as a male hustler or “Rent Boy” on the streets of Seattle. In the opening scene we see him preforming oral sex on a man in a hotel room. He does this to survive, to pay the bills – much like strippers do in order to make ends meet. It is a degrading and demoralizing existence. To me, there are aspects of the stripper profession that are in the same vain as prostitution. I personally feel that it degrades women and turns them into “objects” as opposed to people.
In Voodoo issue 1 Priscella is just an object to us, the reader, as opposed to Aquaman who is a fully fleshed out male character with a sense of right and wrong and a powerful moral compass. DC would never show one of their male heroes demeaning themselves in the was Voodoo does in that private room with the secret agent.
He didn’t. Don’t assume the contents of a deleted comment.
Let’s move on.
Thats very clever. But how would you feel if someone called your profession degrading and demoralizing? Women have the choice to be a stripper. If you insist on insulting the reasoning of a woman it is you who are sexist not DC comics. Grifter is a Con-man, is that demoralizing and degrading to men? Deathstroke is an assasin, is that sexist? I could go on and on. Have you ever even met a stripper? If Voodoo were a Hooters waitress would she suddenly be an upstanding citizen? Dr. Alec Holland is a construction worker in the first issue of Swamp Thing, “OMG he’s doing manual labor… he must be a horrible person. He’s running away from responsibilty….. DC should burn in hell.” Your slash fiction is tolerable to read but it hardly proves your point. Here’s a Flash Fact for ya: Strippers and whores really exsist in the real world.
Well, at least you liked my writing. 😉
This is pretty clever as well:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/10/voodoo_richardpace_burningmonster.jpg
Haha, seems a little reactionary to me. I realize it would be amazing if Renee Montoya as The Question got her own comic. I love that character and feel she has a thousand stories to star in. But this is a fantasy medium and a shapeshifting stripper is appropriate for it. You should be complaining that Marvel has 0 books with a female title character, not that DC took some serious chances and devoted 7 books to women. Much like many men and women do, you glanced at someones situation and made a snap judgement. At least wait for the conclusion on the first story arc before you decide. Yes, she isn’t CEO of Google, but she also isnt a helpless damsel in distress or a girlfriend. Her contribution and significance to the plot is the leap forward. We all want to see more diversity in comics. But baby steps people…….baby steps.
I’m all for feminist movements in comics… Or at the very least, a realistic portrayal of a woman’s body in a protagonist- this takes the whole medium (and new 52) back a step. Though it’s wrong to damn stripping as a profession, DC could have chosen any book for this issue in the new 52, and they chose this? Ug
Listen guys, how about you write a comic about a High school softball coach in Dayton, OH. She instills morals in her players while wearing comfortable and afordable clothes. She is 35yo, 5’6, 165lbs. At the end of the comic she gives all the players rape whistles and goes home to watch Maria Bello on Prime Suspect. Now try to get males in the 18-35 demographic to buy it. And after you make a million dollars on this idea, all female characters in every comic book can be Secretary of State.
love it!
That Maria Bello line will change the way people live their lives!