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Thematically, I think that a prequel to Watchmen can work. The backstories of some of the characters were heavily hinted…

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I watched an episode of South Park recently called “1%”, which was a great episode from last season that focused…

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THIS is how you write an empowered female character. Take note, fans…this is how you do it. Glory #23 is…

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comicBOOKchris's Recent Comments
August 13, 2013 12:55 pm Yeah...Fangasm is kind of a terrible title, but judging the show by a poor title choice on the producer's end would be a bit unfair.
August 13, 2013 10:39 am I was hoping that we'd get a show like this when Comic Book Men was originally announced. I hope it's a hit!
August 13, 2013 9:24 am High ten, Ali!
August 13, 2013 8:12 am I liken real life cosplay to the fashion industry, in a broad sense. Yes, there are very exploitive outfits that get showcased that are designed by both men and women. The difference is that the success or failure of those outfits depend on the women who will actually wear them. If an outfit is too sexist or gaudy, it can die on the runway. And as for the women who wear the successful sexy outfits, they're taking ownership of their own sexuality as opposed to being manipulated. That's why I don't have a problem with women cosplaying as characters like Power Girl. Her design was sexist, yes. The thing is, though, is that when they cosplay as her, it's like they're stealing the exploitive sexuality out of the artist's hands and are taking ownership of it themselves. It's different when they have control over things like that.
August 12, 2013 9:33 pm There's a definite difference between sexy and sexism. If a girl decides to express herself in a sexy outfit, it's different than if a dude forces his fantasy of a woman onto a page. A good example of sexy vs sexism the difference between Amanda Conner's Power Girl and Michael Turner's Power Girl.
August 12, 2013 6:31 pm So the people who are against sexism are the sexists. OK.
August 12, 2013 6:18 pm You keep using that argument that men are drawn equally as sexual, with emphasis on the men's tight outfits. First of all, what I said earlier about how being ripped is more of a male power fantasy is still relevant, despite you attempting to handwave it away. Second, yeah...you have artists like Nicola Scott who throw some things to the female fans by drawing some male cheesecake. Yeah, you have forward thinking writers like Matt Fraction who give increased emphasis on female characters. So what? Does the existence of Nicola Scott and Matt Fraction REALLY balance the sexism scales? Yes, they're doing tremendous work to do so, but the fact that what they're doing is considered against the grain proves that female sexism is still a problem. When short sighted fans try to use a couple of pictures that Scott drew to prove an erroneous point that female sexism doesn't exist anymore because a few instances of male exploitation exist proves that the only ammo these fans have against the sexism argument are weak false negatives. I also have a feeling that most fans don't know the difference between cheesecake and the troublesome poses that are highlighted by The Hawkeye Initiative. That Nightwing #1 cover that is being thrown around that's apparently proof that female comics sexism no longer exists? Yeah, his costume is super form fitting and his physique is incredibly pronounced. Notice, however, that he's NOT in a sexual pose? He's leaping into action, and any sexuality is secondary and in the eye of the beholder. Now take a look at the covers that The Hawkeye Initiative lampoons. Notice how they are not only in revealing costumes, but the poses the women are drawn into are either sexually pandering poses that are hideously disguised as action poses, with some women impossibly posed so that both their boobs and butt are in the reader's frame of reference. Hell, Greg Land straight up uses porn pics for his female references. And by the way, bros, the answer to female sexism isn't male sexism. That's an incredibly juvenile stance to take. It implies that the way to satiate angry women is to draw sexy pics that will make them forget about the issues they initially had. Besides, male sexism & female sexism are NO WHERE near the same thing. Females have been the target of institutional sexism FOR YEARS in America, and is still going on elsewhere throughout the world. The history behind female sexism is much more heavy and troubling than male sexism. I'm sorry to all the dudes who think that this is unfair, but deal with it: Female sexism carries much more weight. Anyone who tries to equate the two is insulting.
August 12, 2013 1:31 pm Wait...Kate Bishop was the sole focus of a Hawkeye issue? WE DID IT! SEXISM IS DEAD!
August 12, 2013 1:09 pm Both the extremely chiseled male bodies and the hyper-sexual female bodies stem from male fantasies. They both represent what men want...they want the chiseled body and the super sexy girl. What you're purporting is purely coincidental.
August 12, 2013 12:47 pm I think Todd's "Welp...can't do anything!" attitude comes from the fact that the industry, in general, is scared to move away from the same model of characters that got famous in the first place, since those white dude characters are where the money is. Yeah, they try and break away from the mold with characters like Miles Morales, but compared to Peter Parker, he's quite marginalized. They try and use the excuse that the general public won't respond to lead women/colored/LGBT characters, but I see that argument as a chicken/egg one. Perhaps they would respond well if YOU THE PUBLISHER had more faith in these concepts?