Comments on Happy Blogtime!: The "Power" of POWER GIRL?

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2009-11-21T00:05:45.563-08:00

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I look at this cover and think that Hughes has bec...

2009-05-07T13:10:00.000-07:00

I look at this cover and think that Hughes has become as tired an artist as Ross.

And mainstream comics aren't just for kids anymore. There are a wazoo load of middle-aged men who read them, collect them and enjoy them.

The best way to make this sort of thing go away is to quit buying them. Complaining about it whilst plunking your money down for it just tells DC that you're not really very serious.

mrchrishunt is right, but in the interest of comic...

2009-05-06T16:06:00.000-07:00

mrchrishunt is right, but in the interest of comics evangelism things like this need to fall away from the forefront. I would honestly love a world where indie/alt comics sold as well as mainstream superheroes, but as it stands, Marvel and DC are the FACE of comics to the public at large. When said public seeds Power Girl on a spinner rack while they're going to buy a copy of Home & Garden Magazine at Barnes & Noble, it only helps them continue happily with their dismissal of an entire artistic medium. What is there to help them break this habit of thought? Absolutely nothing.

I believe very strongly that comics are for everyone, just like movies and books and TV shows. The problem is that somehow this tiny subgenre of fiction has taken over the entire medium and (though I love superhero comics and say this regretfully) given it a bad name. Cleaning up the sexism and teenageboy pandering in mainstream superhero comics will go a long way towards ushering comics into the world of mainstream media.

In the never ending quest for the medium to be "ta...

2009-05-06T15:56:00.000-07:00

In the never ending quest for the medium to be "taken seriously", I think we sometimes forget what comics are at their heart; cartoons. They are selective recreations of reality, good or bad, funny or sad. Comics are an art form for sure, but they don't need to be esoteric. What needs to change is the perception in American comics that either you make superhero stories, or you make talking head ones. People talk about broadening the horizon, pushing comics to new levels, but then they arbitrarily decide that certain things are off limits because its been done, or its so deeply ingrained in the genre. If we're talking mainstream superhero stories, the good guys have always appeared as an ideal form whether they are male or female, its romantic escapist literature. That is unless you intentionally digress from that archetype for a SPECIFIC or ORIGINAL reason that is key to the character you've created. As it stands, Powergirl is the reflection of the base ideal for what a super powered woman looks like in the minds of readers. If THAT'S the issue, then I would say that the comics are a symptom rather than a cause...

A whole lot of people are missing the point. To a...

2009-05-06T15:43:00.000-07:00

A whole lot of people are missing the point.

To address Power Girl #1 briefly, it's not irreverent enough to pull of what amounts to a bunch of prepubescent, breast-related silliness.

Power Girl aside (my review, with my thoughts on its sexism, can be read at www.illegibledreck.com), sexism in comics is maybe more prevalent than it is in any other medium. And yes, you can blame the predominantly young, male audience if you want, but that really doesn't excuse it. It really rests in the hands of the old, male creators who can't seem to get past the 1960s and the artists who seem to believe that 90% of women are D cups.

"Women in Refrigerators" exists as a catchphrase and a website because there is a legitimate, far-reaching problem here.

Bottom line, women in comics are represented in a way that does not jive, at all, with the real world. Things are getting better, if slowly, but more creators need to take responsibility and stop pandering. It's not good storytelling. It's wanky, misogynistic, tired shit.

I think with all that's out there, you have to att...

2009-05-06T11:12:00.000-07:00

I think with all that's out there, you have to attract attention somehow. It's really not as offensive, when seen actual size. And I agree with Brendan....

I think that yes it's blatant in the Boob focus bu...

2009-05-06T10:34:00.000-07:00

I think that yes it's blatant in the Boob focus but that's been the joke of Power Girl for years now. I think you have to put her in that context. She really should not to be taken to seriously.

She stole my moves!

2009-05-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

She stole my moves!

...And the continued belief that the form can't go...

2009-05-06T09:23:00.000-07:00

...And the continued belief that the form can't go past its mass target audience (as one person noted - seems like 75% of the market is made up of teenage boys).

*sigh*

I'm going to go back to reading me some Y.

Woo! I made it on the comment list (third and fift...

2009-05-06T09:20:00.000-07:00

Woo! I made it on the comment list (third and fifth from top)!

And I'm glad that someone has pointed this out - after reviewing some of the facebook comments, I started thinking about the number of characters with chest emblems. And it's amusing to see that PowerGirl here's chest emblem is, in of itself, her chest.

So in a way I can see that it's a parody, but while acting as parody it also reinforces the whole "funny books are about boobies and stuff blowing up." It's hard to shed that rap, what with media stuffing physiological ideals down our throats on a continual basis.

I don't think the joke is her large chest, I think...

2009-05-06T08:58:00.000-07:00

I don't think the joke is her large chest, I think the joke is her costume which accents her large chest. There's no point to that hole except to showcase cleavage, so the comedy stems from the reversal of expectations: whereas Superman would reveal an S-shield, instantly identifying him and what his logo stands for, PowerGirl opens her clothes to reveal...nothing.

So yeah, it's horndoggery, but at least it's self-aware horndoggery; self-awareness here says, at least to me, the character has a shot of being treated as more than simply a pair of breasts.

Odd apocryphal story about Power Girl / Supergirl: Wally Wood drew her breasts slightly larger on the cover of her title each month because he was bored, until the editor asked him about it. Confessing, Wood asked if he should draw the less pulchritudinous version this month.

The editor says..."Nah. Sales are up."

Comics, ladies and gentlemen!