Clark Kent Is Not An Immigrant
I’m an immigrant. I’m not what you think of when you think of an immigrant – I migrated from one first-world English-speaking country to a different first-world English-speaking country – …
Category: Superheroes
A hip Amazon who swings? Wonder Woman begins the Diana Prince years
Some years back, I began rereading my run of Wonder Woman, which I do with most of my old comics eventually, and blogging about them, which I don’t usually do. …
Making your hero a sexist is not brilliant characterization
I wasn’t at all a fan of the New 52 Wonder Woman, but the book’s handling of Orion brought it to rock bottom When Orion shows up to join forces …
Once they were ordinary women but now …
In the Silver Age, the vast majority of super-hero love interests were ordinary humans. Since then, as someone recently pointed out to me, a surprising number have become superheroes or …
Living the meme: things that keep a geek up at night
Sometimes those memes floating around on social media hit a little too close to home…
The downward spiral of Arthur Light, Ph.D. (final Identity Crisis post)
Some comic book characters find eternal fame right from the start. Some rise from obscurity to become legends: John Stewart made one appearance in 1971, a few more Bronze Age …
Women in refrigerators have identity crises too you know!
So following on yesterday’s post, here’s another problem with Identity Crisis, the fridging of Sue Dibney. Back in the days when Gail Simone was a comics fan rather than a …