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silenttinsoldier:

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ladiesmakingcomics:

Jean Grey with Resurrection Man’s power by Thea Rodgers

marvelpanels:

from Avengers #24 by Stan Lee and Don Heck

Lois and Diana team-up

therearecertainshadesoflimelight:

mayak46:

I love this issue.  Superman 661 written by Kurt Busiek, starring Superman, Lois & Wonder Woman.  

He melded the bronze and modern age but also brought something uniquely his own in to the mix. 

I can’t even express how upset I was the day I learned he was off the book.   He just grokked Superman, Clark and Lois.

 

One of my favorite issues ever and a really awesome example of friendship between Lois and Diana.   Leave it to Busiek to remember that you can write two strong women without pitting them against each other.   Also, the Clark/Diana friendship in this issue is so completely lovely.

Although, I do have to say….I know it’s innocent.  But Lois and Clark bringing Diana back to their apartment could have gone a whole different way particularly considering Marston’s history.   LOL

comicbookkissyface:

Vision and the Scarlet Witch v1 #1

DC Women Kicking Ass: DC says Gay Character will be Male and "Iconic"

dcwomenkickingass:

DC Comics today confirmed that there will be a new gay character in the DCU:

One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June,” Courtney Simmons, DC Entertainment’s senior vice president of publicity, confirmed to ABC News.

I think “iconic” rules out…

Okay, so out of the male characters I’d call “iconic”, everyone’s been introduced except for Wally West and Plastic Man (h/t Adam for thinking of him)

Out of the characters DC writers might call iconic, we have Plastic Man, the Atom, and maybe Connor Hawke as a Green Arrow, and just about every male JSA character but I’d pay particular attention to Dr. Fate, Hawkman and Alan Scott on the JSA when rattling off Icons.

If they bring Connor back as Ollie’s gay half-brother, keeping his religion, race, and (as Ollie’s father was probably a complicated jackass too) father issues intact I would read that. So long as Krul isn’t writing.

The Ryan Choi Atom is probably the most likely.

I’d still put Wildcat as more likely than Alan Scott, though. JSA Hawkman, actually, would be REALLY interesting. JSA Hawkman is the mystical one with the reincarnation. Last time around it was Kendra who freaked out, wanted someone else. This would make HIM the one who’s not into the fated love thing. And really, that’s something that has not been done with these two. They haven’t been reincarnated as the same gender, or as different genders but with one of them preferring the same gender sexually.

Or maybe it’s the Spectre. We haven’t seen the Spectre yet. That would be kind of awesome.

Whoever it is, I predict a lot of complaints about what constitutes “iconic” in the near future.

(Source: bleedingcool.com)

Greg Rucka rips Hollywood and Comics a New One

dcwomenkickingass:

The folks over at Comicbook interviewed Greg Rucka where he discusses the treatment of women by Hollywood and DC Comics. Rucka’s discussion of Hollywood comes in reference to the development of his Queen and Country for the big screen. That discussion, as you’ll see, turns into a discussion of the comic book world. Rucka left DC Comics in 2010.

You should go click through to the whole interview and listen to the podcast this was taken from but here are some of the more provocative soundbites:

“There’s an absurd marketing issue which is this conceit that Hollywood labors under and they’ve got studies to back it up, that their market is men 18 to 34, and they won’t go see a woman in an action role, which is utter bulls**t. I mean, if you can think of any demographic that’s more likely to go see women in an action role it’s going to be a guy who’s eighteen! What’s the thing that eighteen-year-old is constantly thinking about? Girls. It’s absurd and the more you look into it, the more the fallacy falls apart….

….The same studies that these guys swear by—‘our demographic is men age 18 to 34, who drive purchasing’—well, alright. Those same studies say it’s women age 20 to 40 who control the income outlay. They control the pocketbook, so why aren’t you marketing to them? It doesn’t make any sense and it’s a fundamentally misogynistic market field and people wonder why we see such negative representations of women or the same consistent galling of women and objectification of women in media and you strip everything away and the only argument that remains is it’s a misogynistic industry—they don’t like women. And you see that all over comics now, too.

These things aren’t going away now and I think in large part the reason they’re not going away is that in particular DC did an extraordinary job of revealing the truth of their situation—they don’t care.

That’s what they said at San Diego—not only do we not care but we actually don’t want you here, go away. Well, guess what? That’s a sh***y business model and you’re going to lose money and you’re going to lose readers. It doesn’t make any sense to me from a business standpoint, right? I was lecturing at the University of Oregon yesterday and the only analog I can come up with is if Apple had said, ‘you know what? We’re only selling iPhones to blondes.’  It doesn’t make any sense—why would you just exclude a whole portion of your market? And the combination of arrogance and ignorance is appaling, and people should be angry. And the mere fact that the people who then actually spoke out about it who were threatened—talk about wanting to make ourselves look good. Nice endorsement for the industry, there.”

Yeah.

I really don’t have anything to add.

Except,

Preach it Reverend Rucka!

chrishaley:

Nice.

Damn, that actually looks quite cool.

(Source: thebollard)

Pitch me: What’s an underrated comic I should read?

womenwriteaboutcomics:

This week we’re writing about underrated comics. What are you going to recommend?

A brief note.

superheroeswearingjackets:

The book in the middle of that picture,The Supervillain Handbook, is a book I wrote. It came out a couple weeks ago.

Let me tell you a few things about it:

• It’s got everything a person aspiring to professional super-evil could want in a guide: How to get motivated, what goals to set, how to pick a name and costume, what powers you need, guidelines for planning dastardly plots, warnings about how often you’ll get punched, a supervillain glossary, training exercises, and more.
• Inside you’ll find more than 40 illustrations by the amazing Adam Wallenta.
• People who aren’t me think it’s funny. See?
• Print editions are available at lots of bookstores (like Barnes & Noble, which is where the above picture was taken) and on Amazon.
• It’s also available at some comic book stores. If your local comic shop doesn’t have it, tell them it wasn’t solicited in Previews, and that they should order it through Ingram or Baker and Taylor. They can also order directly from the publisher, Skyhorse. Tell them to email me at the.mwb at gmail.com for more info.
• You can buy it on the Kindle, too.
• To everyone who has already gotten the book and/or said nice things about it, thank you.
• To everyone who has not gotten it, remember: These are people with rayguns. Ignore them at your peril.