Women: “Hey, can we hire fewer blatant misogynists to direct and create media? We’d support that.”
Nerdy Male Director: “Well-spoken. Have you considered hiring me, a man who is afraid of women?”
Nerdy Male Director: “She had many masculine traits, like eating 10 hamburgers at once and wrestling Russian mercenaries while never going over 112 pounds. She learned these skills from her many fathers and brothers, never from a male partner or friend, as that may suggest she has some autonomous sexual history. No, men were all too afraid of her, except for me who has mistaken my fem-dom fetish for respect. If I met her in real like I’d hate her for rejecting me without ever speaking to her. Her breasts were D cups.”
Nerdy Male Director: “She was quirky and spontaneous and unfathomable. She was completely disarmed and alluring and so full of sunshine. She wanted to be by my side at all times no matter how much I shrugged her off, pained by my history of real women with adult-minds who wouldn’t put up with my unbearable personality. She was a golden retriever. But a human one, with boobs and legs. I made a dog into a woman and she is my dream girl. I have a degree in literature.”
Nerdy Male Director: “She was a strong, feminist woman who was the ruler of this matriarchal nation. So strong, and so cold, and so emotionless, because i cannot figure out what sort of emotions or feelings a woman in power would have. I hate her because she is the bitter old screen-writing professor who gave me a D- on my manuscript about a sad 20 year old man finding himself through a series of prostitute encounters. She is violently killed on screen, and it is cathartic for me. Critics will praise how I handle grim realities. Her womb is barren.”
(via infectedworldmind)
Ryan Sook & Brian Michael Bendis, Legion of Superheroes vol. 1: Millenium. Sook’s art is gorgeous, but I don’t think that this story (and partnership with Bendis) is the best use of his skills. I like Bendis’ ideas for this series, but his dense dialogue distracts from Sook’s visuals. I’m also fascinated by Bendis’ spin on the ideas presented in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Doomsday Clock, which take on a tragic quality for long-time readers of Legion of Superheroes books (who have been subjected to endless reboots and reimaginings over the last three decades). There’s something almost poetic about the notion that we need Superman to succeed for this version of the Legion to continue existing. (JT)
Wine as solution and problem. From Thanos #5 by Mike Deodato (pencil) , Frank Martin (color), VC Clayton Cowles (letters) and Jeff Lemire (words) and Spider Woman #17 by Javier Rodriguez (pencils), Rachelle Rosenberg (color), Veronica Fish (inks), VC Travis Lanham (letters) and Dennis Hopeless (words).
-Breaking Out, by Carol Tyler and the It Ain’t Me Babe Collective. From the Complete Wimmen’s Comix, via Hoopla Digital.
One Page - On the third volume of David Finch and Tom King’s Batman (Jamaal) https://betweenerrors.com/2017/09/16/one-page-the-batman-bunch/
I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about the Red Skull (Jamaal)
1: https://betweenerrors.com/2017/09/01/skull-and-bones-1/
2: https://betweenerrors.com/2017/09/15/skull-bones-2/
One Page - I take a look at Sophie Campbell and Kelly Thompson’s brilliant Jem and the Holograms. (Jamaal) https://betweenerrors.com/2017/05/30/one-page-and-two-panels-misfit-holograms/
The second post in my one page series, on Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren’s Heart in a Box. https://betweenerrors.com/2017/05/22/one-page-whats-in-the-box/ (Jamaal)
One Page - I revisit my childhood with Tom Scioli’s G.I. Joe v. Transformers. (Jamaal) https://betweenerrors.com/2017/07/03/one-page-hasbro-vs-hasbro/
I take a closer look at a page from Daniel Acuna and Rick Remender’s Uncanny Avengers (second volume) for my personal blog - https://betweenerrors.com/2017/05/15/one-page-evolutionary-edition/ (Jamaal)
-Travel Foreman + Al Ewing, The Ultimates 100. I’m going to miss this comic.
Mike Mignola + Jim Starlin, Cosmic Odyssey. Man, this aged well. Mignola is a master - perfectly balances sci-fi cosmic epic with comic book mysticism and street level adventuring. Starlin tells a story that is smart, surprising and fun (and an interesting cautionary tale re: arrogance and absolutism). I love his nuanced take on the New Gods and his Batman who is hyper capable but refreshingly human (he gets surprised and can crack a joke every now and then).