the cancer storyline is trite and overdone, and I say fie to those people who say that.
I had cancer, and I think it's trite and overdone! And why do female characters *always* get breast cancer? It's only so the writers can look serious and important while saying "breast tee hee" like 12-year-olds.
What I really disliked about the first issue (I haven't and don't intend to read the second) is that the first part of the comic was the central characters being *jealous* of other female superheroes for their fame. They're not Hollywood Z-list celebrities, they're heroes who risk their lives every day to save other people. They work in teams with those other women. It rang wholly untrue, malicious and stupid.
As for the cover art being misogynistic - the interior art is far better - the women aren't shown as powerful, like superhero men in skintight costumes. They all have the exact same (ridiculous) bodytype. They have huge boobs stuck on skinny and not-very-athletic bodies, which might be the case for *one* superhero, but certainly not all of them. Superhero men are a power fantasy - this cover is a Playboy fantasy of "owning" these women.
And I'm definitely with likeadeuce on the characters being superheroes, but the only book about them is about everything *else* in their lives. Birds of Prey had a lot of these issues discussed, and yet it was always, always in the context of the women as superheroes. Here, it's like that's their "silly little job" that they'll just have until they're married.
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Date: 2009-08-19 10:34 am (UTC)I had cancer, and I think it's trite and overdone! And why do female characters *always* get breast cancer? It's only so the writers can look serious and important while saying "breast tee hee" like 12-year-olds.
What I really disliked about the first issue (I haven't and don't intend to read the second) is that the first part of the comic was the central characters being *jealous* of other female superheroes for their fame. They're not Hollywood Z-list celebrities, they're heroes who risk their lives every day to save other people. They work in teams with those other women. It rang wholly untrue, malicious and stupid.
As for the cover art being misogynistic - the interior art is far better - the women aren't shown as powerful, like superhero men in skintight costumes. They all have the exact same (ridiculous) bodytype. They have huge boobs stuck on skinny and not-very-athletic bodies, which might be the case for *one* superhero, but certainly not all of them. Superhero men are a power fantasy - this cover is a Playboy fantasy of "owning" these women.
And I'm definitely with