Entries tagged with comix

Current Mood: bemused

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Guess what I'm currently watching instead of finishing Yuletide

(...I mean while I'm finishing Yuletide. Yeah, that's the ticket.)

So, am I to understand that, canonically, the principal Muppets all...live...in the same apartment building in New York City?

Am I alone in finding this weird?

ETA: OKAY WAIT A MINUTE THE FOLLOWING THINGS ARE NOW CANON

( Yes, I am cutting for Muppet spoilers )

And I haven't even had time to mention Sunday's shocking gay kiss in this space! What is the world coming to?

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I have an important rhetorical question

So, okay, I'm in Germany right now, and I have in my possession a lovely volume of classic/definitive/representative-of-various-eras Batman stories translated into German. I did not actually buy this here--I saw it in a charity shop in Edinburgh and snapped it up with delight, thinking (correctly, as it turns out) that the comic-book format combined with the familiarity of the plots could help me start getting more comfortable with German. (By "getting more comfortable", mind you, I mean taking my German proficiency from a 0 to a 0+ rating--but I digress.)

ANYWAY, I was having a look at "Batman: Year One", which I'd never actually read. And my question is, is there really a panel in "Batman: Year One" where Jim Gordon talks to Harvey Dent and at the end of the scene we see that Batman was UNDER HARVEY DENT'S DESK?

I mean, really? Really, Frank Miller?

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comix,
feminism

QotD

Women in Refrigerators - the tendency to have female characters raped, murdered, or brutalized in order to give their male counterparts some extra motivation - is certainly a blight on the superhero genre. But it's a fixture of TV and movies, too; Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan played the "dead wife" card in two of his previous movies, and the grotesque scene from which the "Women in Refrigerators" cliche gets its name bears an uncanny resemblance to the ending of David Fincher's roughly contemporaneous Seven. Credit where credit is due: In an entertainment landscape that routinely uses female characters as disposable mechanisms to drive the actions of the their male compatriots, comic books are the one medium in which people noticed.

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