Work has been incredibly busy, hence, the sporadic posting this week. But there are few things I’ll post now and expand on later.
First if you haven’t read this post over on Moviefone run over before they delete it, bury it or worse.
As a quick recap, the article was a “girl” guide to watching to the Avengers if you boyfriend dragged you along. One would have thought an editor would have seen the TNT sparking off the article on the first paragraph:
As your boyfriend probably told you, “The Avengers” is hitting theaters this Friday. And you, dutiful girlfriend, are attending. But you hate action movies and you’ve never even read a comic book. (Of course, that’s not a slight against the girls who actually do read comic books — i.e. real fans, actual people with varied interests — but for this, let’s just go with the stock view of ladies, ladies!)
The shit hit the fan and the Moviefone, part of the Huffington Post empire (which also employs Laura Hudson, a “girl” as the editor of its comics site Comics Alliance …IRONY!) had to start spinning a like a gyroscope:
Market Monday
DC Universe Legacies TP, includes art by Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Acclaimed writer Len Wein chronicles the DC Universe’s epic history in this title spanning five generations of heroes starring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Justice League of America, The Teen Titans and more. Collecting the ten-issue miniseries!
The late Jones, of course, being the legendary transgender artist called ”the greatest living painter” by Frank Frezetta.
EW: There are a lot of female superheroines in comics, but why so few on film? Joss, you tried to make a Wonder Woman movie for several years, right?
WHEDON: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After ‘The Hunger Games’ they might stop telling you that a little bit. Watever you think of the movie, it’s done a great service.
JOHANSSON: A lot of female-superhero movies just suck really badly.
WHEDON: The suck factor is not small.
JOHANSSON: There are a couple that have worked-ish, don’t you think?
HEMSWORTH: Angelina Jolie tends to do it pretty well, as a dominant female.
JACKSON: They got to get ‘The Pro’ to the screen! I love that book!
JOHANSSON: What’s The Pro?
JACKSON: It’s a comic book about a hooker who gets superpowers!
JOHANSSON: That is exactly the problem right there!
JACKSON: It’s a really dope book, though.
JOHANSSON: I’d have to wear pasties to greenlight any of these movies.
Entertainment Weekly Avengers Edition #1205 (via geektrooper)
There could have been a Whedon Wonder Woman movie, y’all. Meditate on that for a minute.
(via kellysue) For those out of the know, The Pro was a comic written by the brilliant yet often problematic Garth Ennis and drawn by brilliant yet fucking brilliant Amanda Conner. It’s actually pretty good.
And the article is actually completely gay-positive, very well-informed and a lot of fun. (But would you expect less from the good folks at CA?) Here’s a sample:
It has become an exhausted joke, of course; the hero/sidekick relationship has inspired decades of snickering insinuation. The implication is not merely that Batman is gay, but that he is a pederast and a predator - concepts that have too often been conflated by prejudice. The Batman/Robin relationship was the basis for Frederic Wertham’s allegation that Batman stories were “psychologically homosexual.” Where [Batman writer Grant] Morrison says there’s “just no denying it,” Wertham says, “Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and of the psychopathology of sex can fail to realize a subtle atmosphere of homoerotism.”
…We reject or deride the sexualization of Batman’s relationship with Robin precisely because of the worrying implications of eroticizing Robin, but that reading takes the roots of Batman’s gayness in the wrong direction. For gay readers in the 1940s, the introduction of Robin to Detective Comics did not sexualize Robin; it sexualized Batman. It created what Wertham called “a wish dream of two homosexuals living together,” a visible idealization of a same-sex relationship in an era when homosexuality had no mainstream recognition. The gayness of Batman was not just a joke about sidekicks, it was a scrap of identification for a starved gay audience. Robin established Batman as an early totem for a nascent and repressed gay subculture.
To his friend…
Print this out. Give it to the douchebag alpha-nerd in your life.
Little League #36 by Yale Stewart
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Boston Comic Con pre-commission, Tank Girl headshot/bust.
Put some colours on a Legend of Korra drawin’ I drew! I love me some Korra! How much do I love me some Korra? You can read about it here. Yeeaaaa Korraaaaa! I am all kinds of thrilled this show exists.
Beyond the Fringe #6 is up on Comixology, thus concluding the two part story “Ghost Writer”, written by Jhonen Vasquez, penciled by me, Inked by Andy Belanger and topped by a Ben Templesmith cover! FRRRIINNGGEE!! :D Enjoy!
