Do you love The Colbert’s Report‘s Stephen Colbert? Do you love comics?
Would you like to read a comic about Stephen Colbert’s intergalactic heroic alter-ego Tek Jansen?
Check out Scans_Daily’s extract here.
Quoth Tek of an oppressed minority female alien:
Beneath her sadness she was beautiful. For a moment I considered making love to her to boost her self-esteem.
How dashing!
This was brought to my attention by one of our forum’s wonderful posters, but check out this Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed:
Reader Kate C. wrote in earlier this week with the following:
Either I read this somewhere or someone told me, I can’t remember exactly where I heard this – but supposedly at one point Marvel had a whole line of female superhero comics. Is that for real?
The answer may surprise some that it is, in fact, true. What is even more surprising is WHEN the line happened – in 1948!!
Trina Robbins has written an excellent but tragically out of print book on the subject called The Great Women Superheroes. It’s still available on Amazon, and hey…click the Amazon button on our homepage , and an angel gets its wings. Or cape. Book can be found here.
Glossing talks about what’s happening to Mary Marvel and the increasing trend for female characters to be made ‘edgy’.
The first-ever People of Color SF Carnival, curated by WitchWillow, focuses on issues faced by creators, fans and characters of color in all aspects of science fiction and fantasy media and fandom. My personal favorites are two essays I’d read before, Pam Noles’ comments on the SciFi channel’s adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin’s “Earthsea.” But WitchWillow has done such a great job, collecting links on a wide variety of topics, that I think there’s something interesting here for just about everyone.
Dude, I am not making this up: Four day memberships sold out at SDCC.
According to a spokesperson from Comic Con, selling out Friday or Saturday is a definite possibility. So if you haven’t registered yet, you might want to register ASAP here: http://www.comic-con.org/
Stay classy, San Diego.
Just some random cool links for the day:
The new 7 wonders of the world Pretty excellent choices, if you ask me. And while I’m the biggest history nerd in the world, I do think it’s nice that they chose from a wider variety of cultures, as well as choosing monuments and structures that are still mostly intact…as opposed to “Colossus of Rhodes! If it was still there…Hanging Gardens of Babylon! They’re still kind of here…somewhere…”
African women speak out against Bush’s abstinence-promoting HIV/AIDS policies courtesy of Feministe. AWESOME. The U.S. funding abstinence-only programs has failed a lot of people, and it’s hit African women in a HUGE way. These women are awesome for speaking out and calling attention to what is NOT working.
Mortifying moments in parenting Hosted at Flea’s blog. Laugh, cry and cringe!
Presidential Candidates in First Ever Gay Debate 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates will be debating solely LGBT issues. The event will be held August 9, and you can watch through a live streaming video on LOGOonline.com Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Chris Dodd have confirmed that they will participate.
Enjoy!
David_Wisdom talks about Transformers, the animated Justice League, toys, and the illusion of “neutral”.
After the inevitable dogpile, the fan in question continued to defend his stance. While he grudgingly acknowledged that children should be taught that racism and sexism are bad, he maintained that media aimed at said children should not supplement such lessons. Rather, it should remain “neutral”.
Meaning, all-white, all-male.
There’s also some great stuff in the comments, including the baffling revelation that those in charge of Marvel’s Barbie comics line think that girls don’t like pirates.
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“Holding Out for a Hero”
Youtube link to a video of drag queen Tandi Iman Dupree performing Betty Taylor’s “Holding Out for a Hero” – recently(ish) popularized by SHREK 2 – dressed as Wonder Woman and joined by a Superman dancer.
I’m kind of in love with this video and could ramble about the interesting things it says (without even trying!) about conventional ideas of sexuality, race, and identity for hours, but instead I think I’ll just link you to it, because it’s fantastic and says it all without any input from me.
Also, it’s sexy beyond belief.