OddityCollector examines the ethnic makeup of the thirtieth century, and asks what happened to all the brown people.
NYTimes interviews Perry Moore, author of Heroes. Money quote: “Yes, bad things do happen to all people,” he wrote in it. “But are there positive representations of gay characters to counterbalance these negative ones?”
The Supergirl clothing line!
Via new Newsarama blog Spin-offs by Stephanie Chen, this youtube link to the launch of the Supergirl clothing line in LA boutique Intuition.
Oh, the horror, the horror! More pink glittery faux-punk “girl power – so long as you’re glamorous!” than you can shake a stick at, and almost no connection to the super girl herself.
On the other hand, I was enormously cheered to see at least one of the numerous (possibly) celebrities interviewed was a fan. Speaketh Adrianne Palicki: “This little blonde girl, growing up… I wanted to be just like her.”
Aw. If only she was visible in this clothing line!
David Willis once again demonstrates his wit and good sense when it comes to the lack of a memorial for a dead girl Robin.
This is something that’s been recently brought to my attention. But…doesn’t Parthenon from Who Wants To Be A Superhero? rather closely resemble Kid Olympus from Pride High?
Even the bracers look rather…identical?
More on this from Pride High’s creator over at his blog: http://verdantsf.blogspot.com/2007/08/parthenon-who-wants-to-be-superhero.html
From this thread at the Girl-Wonder.org forums, a link to Comic Book Resources’ account of the DC Nation panel at SDCC and the question that, rightly, just won’t die:
When can we be expecting a memorial for Stephanie Brown?” asked another fan.
So, a small number of preview solicits have come out from DC, and I noticed some interesting elements in the JLA #14 cover.
Churchill was clearly dying to draw this.
It even has an viable excuse for women to thrust their chests forward.
Someone needs to tell Supergirl that her body is …changing, and there’s some products she’ll want to keep on hand from now on.
According to the BBC, “the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is calling on high street books to pull a Tintin adventure from its shelves over claims it is racist.”
I’m genuinely not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, many of the Tintin books encompass the worst of colonialist bigotry; on the other, “the book’s publishers Egmont said the book comes with a warning that it features ‘bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period – an interpretation some readers may find offensive.’” So, the edition in question contains printed acknowledgement of the offensive contents and isn’t attempting to excuse them, which casts the issue in a somewhat different light.
Where do you draw that line? Is there a clear line at all? Should the book be relegated to the “adult” section? Should stores even carry it? Is there an ethical difference between what content should be tolerated in Tintin, which is considered a seminal and canonical piece of comics literature, versus other, less “classic” works? Should there be?
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Is Dan Clowes’ Eightball #22 “borderline pornography”?
An English teacher in Guilford, Connecticut assigned Eightball #22 to a freshmen student as a makeup reading assignment. When the parents of the student complained about the content of the book, the teacher was placed on administrative leave, and then resigned from his position.
The New Haven Advocate has run a thoughtful defense of Eightball #22 and Dan Clowes here.
What is equally (if not more so) appalling is the harassment that the student in question has suffered at the hands of her peers, due to the incident causing the departure of a well-liked teacher. The story about the students and parents has been printed in this article by the New Haven Register.
This is horrible. I wish that things like this would promote discussion, but instead a comic book is misrepresented, a teacher loses their job and a poor teenage girl becomes the target of her classmate’s cruelty.
What a bloody mess.