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January 5, 2012 2:34 pm While I don't disagree with Snyder being #1, Remender should be 1b. Both for the quality and quantity of work. Help released around 35 excellent issues this year. Almost 3 years of material and not a single dude. Snyder was similarly prolific in both quality and quantity... Easily the 2 best writers this year.

January 5, 2012 2:26 pm Pretty good list. I am especially glad that Capullo got notice. Help has been doing great work since help was reinvigorated one Haunt. Ottley was missed, as mentioned above.

January 4, 2012 4:29 pm I don't believe the amount of skin particularly matters. The two complaints I see most commonly are that the characters should only present positive role models for women and that the physical portrayal creates an unattainable image. The masculine image is no more attainable, and if your believe men aren't psychologically or emotionally affected by unachievable body goals I have dozens of steroid junkies to introduce you to. As to the positive role model conundrum, I am not interested in reading a public service annoucement. I want conflict, drama and interesting stuff to happen. Sex and relationship issues are a great tool for those things. I suppose the bottom line for me is that I want to been entertained and I down not seek role models in my fiction, only interesting things to see feel and experience.

January 4, 2012 3:11 pm Good article and thoughtful. Still down not agree with the cries of sexism on a grand scale. Every female can't been a positive and reinforcing role model. Those would been some damn boring stories if every female was a magnificent princess. Also, not very true to the spirit of exploring humanity and our vast repetoire of experiences through fiction.Your characters need flaws, problems and quirks. One of the most common complaints your hear from Superman haters is some variation of him being too perfect. Immaculate heroes are dull and make for uninteresting stories. There are plenty of movies and novels about women (and men) of relatively disreputable circumstance and not one complains about that. Why are comics not allowed to have salacious moments when they are prevalent in every other form of media? So long as it isn't every book or even particularly common (and it isn't) I see no problem.

December 22, 2011 2:53 pm Ignoring the 3rd film, which I believe only survived because the prestige of the previous two films, the films had very little camp. They had funny moments, but rarely strayed into the silly or inane. They also have a strong sense of being in the real world and a feeling of real consequence as opposed to the casually dismissed devastation of Thor or Captain America.

December 22, 2011 1:31 pm Best film that came out that year.

December 22, 2011 1:29 pm One trend I notice in this films, with a handful of exceptions, is that the best selling movies are ones that use comics as a loose foundation and then make them more practical. Movies like Batman and Spiderman and X-men eschew much of the traditional camp and cornball of comics. Taking themselves more seriously and presenting more 'realistic' worlds for the characters than movies like Captain America or Thor. It could certainly be my innate bias but I think the audiences will continue to drift away from the campy films and embrace the more serious films.

December 17, 2011 5:02 pm Nice. Fowler on Hulk is a good get.

December 16, 2011 8:05 pm I have notices women treated differently in comic book crowds. Though generally in the opposite way. With fear and a sense of unapproachability as the man-boys goggle and mutter but cannot seem to engage her in conversation or quite look her in the eye. I think this treatment is at least as bad, possibly worse, than casually objectifying a woman.

December 13, 2011 2:26 am I have read all but the last chapter of Basewood. It is excellent indie comics. Excellent. You should all read it.