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Anyone want to take bets on Hollywood managing to make a movie out of Y: The Last Man and still have it fail the Bechdel test?
I'm having another of my "I want to read comics! But comics suck!" moods. Anyone have recommendations for comics starring women that aren't overwhelmingly cheesy or sexist, and yet still contain superheroes punching bad guys?
I am having an increasingly hard time not buying an iphone. Someone talk some sense into me! My blackberry is nice, but does not do the internetting I want it to.
I'm having another of my "I want to read comics! But comics suck!" moods. Anyone have recommendations for comics starring women that aren't overwhelmingly cheesy or sexist, and yet still contain superheroes punching bad guys?
I am having an increasingly hard time not buying an iphone. Someone talk some sense into me! My blackberry is nice, but does not do the internetting I want it to.
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Also the Dark Tower, again based on the books by Stephen King, strong female, but more shooting than punching. Assuming they stay pretty true to the books.
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The first three are imho amazing, the last couple are where they start getting less good sometimes. Again they fluctuate.
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And they're really taking the ethos from the later books, although the stories are from the earlier books.
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All of that is hearsay, I can't back any of it up but it is what I've heard.
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also astonishing X-men, which was written by joss whedon.
all star superman, winner of multiple eisner awards
scott pilgrim, canada centric 80's child aimed pop culture jam.
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With Andre being one of them).
It's an interesting idea though, and definitely raises awareness of just how often women are used as set dressing in popular culture.
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1 - But we already know that I am a DoublePlusUngood Feminist.
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Green Lantern Corps currently has one of my favorite Green Lanterns ever, a female doctor named Soranik Natu. It is another ensemble book like Buffy and Angel, but Natu does appear almost every issue.
I haven't been reading it lately, but what I have seen of the recent Blue Beetle comics has been really good and does a good job of using "Girl Thirteen," a mystic superheroine that was introduced in Superman years ago and is now dating the current Blue Beetle.
Of course, Birds of Prey has long been the place to go for not-sexist or cheesy female heroines, especially during Gail Simone's run. She is now writing Wonder Woman which I can't say that I have been as impressed by, but I would still recommend hunting down the TPBs of Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman comics, which is my favorite era of Wonder Woman ever.
On the Marvel Side of things, Runaways is a fantastic comic featuring several teenage super-people who find out there parents are super-villains and run away. The cast has more girls than boys (I believe) and the girls are very well written. (Sadly, the male characters are the flat and uninteresting characters in Runaways.) It is currently being written by Joss Whedon, but you would want to start with the early issues which have been collected in trades.
Sadly, a Y movie would have a strong chance of failing the Bechdel test since they could easily have all the women talk about Yorick.
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I just went through Runaways a few weeks ago.
The BoP and WW recs are good though - I've avoided them because they're exactly the sort of titles that can be good, but can also be really hideous, depending on who's doing the writing and art.
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Strangers in Paradise?
Runaways maybe? I kinda like the girls in it, Gertrude's my favourite of them.
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Princess has an iPhone, I have a Blackberry, Battery life is evil on the iPhone, you'll need that plus your current iPod if you want to listen for any period of time.
But the web browser on the iPhone is much better then the Blackberry, though the Bold and Thunder should recover a lot of that ground. The data transfer is much faster on the iPhone with the 3G and the Wi-Fi.
Blackberry has the keyboard, thats pretty much it. Though Blackberry can be synced with iTunes now.
If you are going to get it act fast, the 6GB for $30 a month is the best deal going in canada.
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