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 …
Category: Superheroes
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 …
Identity Crisis: Where it went wrong for me
Reading Identity Crisis when it first came out (2004-5), I couldn’t quite pin down why I didn’t like it (other than Sue’s death, which left a very sour taste in …
For Valentine’s Day: “a love letter to the Silver Age”
Normally when I cross-post older stuff from my blog, I rework it quite a bit. I spent Saturday at the E/R with vertigo — happily it turns out it’s not …
Hot librarians on screen
The hot librarian is a visual cliché that goes back long before I actually heard it described that way. It’s the image of a beautiful woman whose fashion sense is …