The Whedon-verse comics (both good and featuring women heroes) Buffy Season Eight, Angel: After the Fall
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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Date: 2008-08-08 11:33 am (UTC)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.