Women Is NOT Losers
Marvel Comics is a couple months into their “Women of Marvel” promotion, and that raises an issue or two. The whole idea is fine – honor… well… promote the several hundred female characters that toil in the Marvel Universe. Remind the readers
that many are among Marvel’s best. After all, women-starring superhero comics generally don’t sell very well and women-starring superhero movies are, without fail, failures.
I realize there’s a reason why the movies flop. Most of them really suck. Supergirl, Elektra, and Catwoman deserved better. But they stunk up the box office so badly I doubt they’d make a Black Widow solo movie
right now even if Scarlett Johansson had a half-dozen nude scenes.
Well… I could be wrong about that last point.
But the fact is, these are just made-up characters. It is
not intrinsically harder to write, draw, direct and/or act as a woman superhero as it is a man. I understand avoiding crappy movies, but a lot of the women superhero comics are as good as anything on the racks. Given the growing percentage of women readers, you’d think there would be a chance here.
So kudos to Marvel for their promotion. And go to your friendly neighborhood comic book shop and take a super-heroine out to lunch.
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And yet they *still* have Black Widow up there in the old “hey check out my boobies and my butt at the same time” pose.
And yet they *still* have Black Widow up there in the old "hey check out my boobies and my butt at the same time" pose.
Alex, they always will have them in that pose. 1. Because guys still out-number girls reading comics. 2. Guys out-number girls in writing and drawing comics, and 3. If YOU had a body like that, why not show it off?I agree with the promotion, but find Marvel’s recent mini’s and one-shots featuring said ladies to be… less than stellar outings. For a positive turn on the female hero and comic book star, I say turn your heads towards anything Ms. Gail Simone works on. She writes the best ladies on the printed page these days.
I dearly loved Devin Grayson’s work on “Catwoman”.
Alex, they always will have them in that pose. 1. Because guys still out-number girls reading comics. 2. Guys out-number girls in writing and drawing comics, and 3. If YOU had a body like that, why not show it off?I agree with the promotion, but find Marvel's recent mini's and one-shots featuring said ladies to be… less than stellar outings. For a positive turn on the female hero and comic book star, I say turn your heads towards anything Ms. Gail Simone works on. She writes the best ladies on the printed page these days.
I dearly loved Devin Grayson's work on "Catwoman".