tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post116373293554565388..comments2024-01-14T11:45:23.991-05:00Comments on Occasional Superheroine: Goodbye To Comics #7: “We Need A Rape”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-48390395270751835472010-01-02T22:24:24.475-05:002010-01-02T22:24:24.475-05:00@Blakeney
That's strange I actually just read...@Blakeney<br /><br />That's strange I actually just read that story last week and thought it was one of the most beautiful depictions of a woman in comics that I had seen. They are a married couple that scene shouldn't have been shocking and also wasn't suppose to be in any way sexualgzapatahttp://gzapata.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-14046912504499817832009-09-17T19:04:58.642-04:002009-09-17T19:04:58.642-04:00Thank you so much for telling it like it is - I u...Thank you so much for telling it like it is - I used to be an avid Marvel and occassional DC reader but grew steadily disgusted by the objectification of women. <br /><br />The final straw was whn I picked up a Spider-Man graphic novel from the library. I had mostly given up on the comics by this time, but wanted to read this one as I understood Pete and MJ were reuniting after their breakup.<br /><br />In the middle of the story Pete and MJ are in bed. My problem with this is that MJ is depicted asleep, lying on her side with her top off and the blanket at waist level. The only thing preserving her modesty is an arm held in front of her which narrowly covers a small section of her pulchritudinous bosom.<br /><br />That was it. I haven't picked up a comic since. PS - when I was stacking this with the other books I was returning to the library a paper bookmark fell out, advertising other graphic novels - kept in the children's section. Stop the planet - I wanna get off. But I grateful that a comic book insider would be gutsy enough to disagree with the status quo.Blakeneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-89699712398281452262007-11-06T10:27:00.000-05:002007-11-06T10:27:00.000-05:00There was a sold couple of years at DC and Marvel ...There was a sold couple of years at DC and Marvel both where the premise and resolution to every storyline was "Bitchez be crazy."<BR/><BR/>Further reason to say goodbye to all this soap opera garbage.Brendan McGinleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12497042744162213017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-1164482240871252522006-11-25T14:17:00.000-05:002006-11-25T14:17:00.000-05:00Maybe I've just been too disinterested in comics i...Maybe I've just been too disinterested in comics in general for too long, but for the life of me I can't figure out who Vicki Victim is, or whar company we're talking about.<BR/><BR/>Clues?<BR/><BR/>~~JD~~J.D. Longhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02476196440393881916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-1164041689851412032006-11-20T11:54:00.000-05:002006-11-20T11:54:00.000-05:00“The rape pages are in!”This, on the other hand, I...“The rape pages are in!”<BR/><BR/>This, on the other hand, I am 100% certain is true.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14947233996077734991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-1164000698223631882006-11-20T00:31:00.000-05:002006-11-20T00:31:00.000-05:00Yeah, I am not pleased with A Certain Comics compa...Yeah, I am not pleased with A Certain Comics company for killing off my favorite character, Blue Beetle.Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409411865169539512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25566450.post-1163804387370296842006-11-17T17:59:00.000-05:002006-11-17T17:59:00.000-05:00It's funny; the big reason I have stopped collecti...It's funny; the big reason I have stopped collecting comics is that the characters are no longer recognizable to me, because they are too brutal. I've been a long time reader of Marvel comics. This whole Civil War business rewrites beloved characters who may have always been flawed but heroic into outright villains. Even before that I was ready to leave.<BR/><BR/>JMS wrote a story a couple years back that had Gwen Stacy sleeping with the Green Goblin. This absolute sullying of a character dead for over twenty years (if one can sully a fictional character) was abominable to me. Someone speculated this would allow Peter to move on from her and finally realize that MJ has always been right for him, not Gwen. I find this incredibly silly. Any man who finds out the woman he has idolized for years slept with his worst enemy is not going to move past anything. That's going to stay with him. It's a terrible mischaracterization of Gwen.<BR/><BR/>The Scarlet Witch going crazy was the last straw. These grim stories are destroying everything good about these characters and the stories. There is nothing left which is heroic, only horrifying, nothing uplifting, only depressing. So I stopped. And how can I buy Gilongo comics when they are just as bad?Old Father Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13623574927003903010noreply@blogger.com