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Record: Brian Michael Bendis
2007-06-21 07:08:00
What is so great about Bendis anyway? This hugely overrated writer with an inexplicable following based on his name alone may have first begun his career as a novelist, but certainly came to prominence following his work on Powers for Image Comics. While he may have come up with some effective women in the books he?s written, he?s still pulled some sexist acts, which I?ll try to highlight below. In Avengers: Disassembled, we have the notorious case of Scarlet Witch going insane because she failed to have children, a storyline based on one of John Byrne?s worst works from 1990. She even sends the She-Hulk berserk during this. The worst part is how it invokes the stereotype of women being unable to cope with power. Another one of the worst things about Disassembled was how it regurgitated the Hank Pym as abuser stigma: another character, possibly Tony Stark, asks Hank, ?don?t you got a wife to beat?? It?s as offensive to Janet as it is to Hank, who does not deserve this kind of ch...
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Profile: Arisia
2007-06-14 05:54:00
ArisiaFirst appearance: Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, May 1981Current status: discovered alive and well on the Manhunter world of Biot.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: once, she received a blow to the head that caused her amnesia. She got over that, but was far from being in shape to be a GL again for a while. In Guy Gardner #43, she was choked to death by Major Force, a short while before he murdered Kyle Rayner?s girlfriend Alexandra.What?s wrong with how this was done? It was really sick, and just symbolized what had gone wrong with some comics during the 1990s. Or, more precisely, it was Major Force who did. He has got to be one of the most superfluous of murderous villains in any comics universe.Was there anything good to come out of this? Finally, in the 12th issue of the fourth GL volume, resurrected Hal Jordan finds her in a cocoon state on the planet of Biot, the Manhunters? home planet. It turns out that her race had some healing abilities that re...
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Profile: Diamond Lil
2007-06-04 05:58:00
Lillian Crawley-Jeffries, Diamond LilFirst appearance: Alpha Flight #1 Vol. 1, August 1983. She is the ladyfriend/wife of Madison Jeffries.Current status: after taking up a sanctuary offer with the Xavier Institute post-House of M, she was among several to leave the grounds along with a strange figure called Mister M.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: from what I can tell of her background, she seems to have been a character who underwent a lot of suffering. She also joined up with the supercrook team of Omega Flight, a rival of Alpha?s, but was later pardoned for it. The most bizarre story was probably when she was discovered to have developed what was initially thought to be a kind of breast cancer tumor, and the problem was that her skin was too hard to penetrate in order to analyze the problem. It was after an alien encounter that she obtained a tool to do so properly, but it turned out to be just an infected cyst. She?d also been exploited by the (Canadian) ...
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Profile: Mera
2007-05-21 22:52:00
MeraFirst appearance: Aquaman #11, September-October 1963. While like her estranged husband, Aquaman, she too is a water-breather, she is a native of a different dimension who ended up in our world, falling in love with and marrying the Sea King.Current status: in 2006, she led a small band of rebels and helped her husband, who was then a fugitive from Atlantis.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: after the death of her son at the hands of the mercenary Black Manta, she was driven insane, and later left her husband. For a time, she was stuck in an awful dimension called Netherworld but later returned. Later on, she was turned into an air-breather by the Sorcery Elite.What?s wrong with how this was done? Still another needless case of a woman being driven insane, and unable to cope with reality. The story in which Black Manta murdered her son, by the way, when it was originally written in 1977 in Adventure Comics #452, was one of the most abominably scripted pieces ...
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Record: Joe Quesada
2007-05-13 21:34:00
Now, here?s a wee bit of serious mistakes made by Marvel?s insular editor-in-chief, Quesada, comic artist and would-be writer who undeservedly ascended to the high position he?s currently got, where he allowed for discrimination to pass as legitimate in a couple items in past years. For example: He allowed for J. Michael Straczynski, until recently the writer on Amazing Spider-Man, to tarnish the memory of Gwen Stacy in the abominable ?Sins Past?, and even justified all this in a rock-bottom interview with Newsarama in 2004. He said: ?Changing some of the Gwen backstory does little to affect the Peter/Spider-Man world outside of watching Peter grow as a character and the cast grow as people. It changes our way of thinking about Gwen, but she's been deader longer than many of our readers have been alive. Also, I think that when the story is finally told it makes her that more human to us and especially to Peter.? No more than this needs to be told, except that it just symbolizes t...
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Profile: Ms. Marvel 2
2007-05-03 06:53:00
Sharon Ventura, Ms. Marvel 2First appearance: in the pages of The Thing.Current status: unknownWas subjected to the following acts of discrimination: through a similar situation to what the Fantastic Four went through (cosmic rays), she was turned into the She-Thing in 1989, and while she was cured of that, she was later turned into another beast, courtesy of Doctor Doom, who enslaved and depowered her in 1993. Finally, she underwent an even worse transformation that wrecked her mental capacity, eventually fleeing from Reed Richards? lab while having cracked up completely, and fading into obscurity.What?s wrong with how this was done? It was simply going way too far to the point of utter ludicrousness. Perfectly ghastly. If Marvel needed to break up Sharon and the Thing, there were plenty of better ways to do it without resorting to sending Sharon through some awful circumstances like what she went through in the mid-90s.In FF #29 in 2000, she appeared as a member of the Frightful F...
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Record: Dan DiDio
2007-04-20 07:44:00
Now, let?s run a little record about an editor?s errors. What can be said about the mistakes that an editor makes in what he does? It?s what they allowed to happen, to be written and published, that counts. We?ll start first with DiDio, as he does seem to have quite a few very hideous things to shoulder blame for as editor-in-chief of DC Comics, which include: The defeatist storyline in Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, where Donna Troy was killed, even if only temporary, by a Superman robot that was unleashed by a female robot named Indigo (get it? Judd Winick?s story there has a woman to blame for the death of another!). Lilith Clay was also killed in this storyline, and since then, DiDio?s staff has been blatantly sweeping that under the rug. Allowing a certain writer (Brad Meltzer) to abuse just about everyone and anyone in the pages of Identity Crisis, simply because he?s a ?high profile novelist?, to make it almost entirely pro-masculine in its POV, and some of the mos...
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Profile: Hellcat
2007-04-18 23:00:00
Patsy Walker, Hell catFirst appearance: Miss America #2, November 1944. She made appearances in the romance comics that Marvel did up until the early 1960s in such books as Patsy and Hedy, and was later officially established in the main Marvel universe when making a cameo appearance in the 1965 Fantastic Four Annual #3 (Marvel subsequently stopped publishing annuals for about a decade before trying them again). In Amazing Adventures #13 in 1973, that?s when she began to take up a more adventure filled life, when she met Beast and asked for his help in establishing a superheroine career. She officially became Hellcat in Avengers #144 in 1976. She also worked with the Defenders.Current status: currently inactive as a crimefighter.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: Patsy later married Daimon Hellstrom, whose demonic inheritance took possession of him and in this case drove her insane. She was confined to a mental institution and later, the otherworldly villain named...
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Profile: Mantis
2007-04-12 19:55:00
Mantis Khrul-BrandtFirst appearance: The Avengers #112, June 1973. She was the daughter of a Vietnamese mother, Lua Khrul, and a German father, Gustav Brandt (Libra), who later became a terrorist, and was revealed to be the Celestial Madonna in Steve Englehart?s notable storyline from 1974-75. Her exact first name does indeed appear to be Mantis.* She later took up the pseudonym of Mandy Celestine when living in Connecticut.Current status: not certain.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: she had to give up custody of her child to her father?s people, and during her adventure in space with the Silver Surfer, she was struck by an explosion that caused her to literally split into multiple versions of herself, an effect that apparently had what to do with the powers she was developing, and she had to find all the pieces in order to set things ? and her memories ? right again. In 1995?s disastrous story, ?The Crossing? she returned as the villainous bride of Kang the Co...
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Profile: Shrinking Violet
2007-04-07 19:18:00
Salu Digby, Shrinking Viol et First appearance: Action Comics #276, 1961. She was one of the first members introduced of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century, a native of the planet Imsk, and was co-created by Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney.Current status: she sometimes goes by the name of Atom Girl today.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: she was once kidnapped by radicals from her home planet, and suffered a trauma from that. But she was also betrayed by Duplicate Boy, who hadn?t even tried to rescue her. In a story called ?Battle of Venado Bay? in which she and her fellow Imskians were battling the home planet of Cosmic Boy, she had to save her fellow Legionnaire, who was badly injured, from her own fellow fighters. He was so crazy with pain that he didn?t recognize her and smashed her in the head, destroying her right eye and leaving a scar on her face. Shrinking Violet and Cosmic Boy reconciled later and she had her eye repaired, but left the scar intac...
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Profile: Domino
2007-03-30 08:30:00
DominoFirst appearance: X-Force #11, June 1992. Curious thing about her was that the overrated Rob Liefeld was the artist who co-created her at the time, along with Fabian Nicieza. And another interesting thing about her was that, shortly before she officially debuted, there was an imposter who appeared before her! (in New Mutants #98, the series that preceded X-Force.) Her exact name isn?t certain, but at times, she?s been identified as either Neena Thomas or Beatrice Thurman, the latter used when once married to a man named Milo Thurman.Current status: still a member of both X-Force and another team called Six-Pack.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: in 1996-97, in the "Operation: Zero Tolerance" crossover in a lot of the X-titles, she was taken prisoner by the meta-human villain Bastion, and he and his cohorts tortured her, which affected her mentally and physically.What?s wrong with how this was done? It was going overboard. It was sadistic. That?s the best th...
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Profile: Donna Troy
2007-03-21 19:15:00
Donna Troy , aka Wonder Girl, Troia and DarkstarFirst appearance: The Brave and the Bold, 1965. She was a founding member of the Teen Titans and first female member. When she first debuted, she was the adopted sister of pre-Crisis Wonder Woman, though their meetings and team-ups were rare at the time. Later on, in 1988, she got a new origin, where she?d been raised by the Titans of Myth during her childhood.Current status: not entirely certain just now. She?d taken Diana of Themyscira?s place as WW last year in the third volume of her series, but that was largely botched due to writer Allen Heinberg?s astounding delays as scriptwriter, which led to his arc going otherwise unfinished. You could say that she?s become something of a counselor anew for the latest incarnation of the TT, and has certainly been getting involved again with her onetime boyfriend, Kyle Rayner, former Green Lantern.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: it?s odd, but, during a few of her first a...
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Profile: Hawkgirl/Woman
2007-03-13 07:22:00
Hawkgirl/Woman First appearance: since this entry features at least three ladies to carry the mantle, it?ll feature the place of debut for all of them as well. Sheira Saunders first appeared in Flash Comics #1 in 1940, and became Hawkgirl two years later, becoming possibly the first woman in comics to take up a role originated by a male protagonist. The second one, Shayera Thal, first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #34 in 1961, and after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, her post-Crisis appearance was in 1989?s Hawkworld miniseries. The third one, Kendra Saunders, grandniece of the original, first appeared in JSA: Secret Files in 1999. She?s said to now be inhabited by the original Hawkgirl, for reasons I?ll try to give below.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: in Action Comics in 1987, in a story written by John Byrne, she was almost completely ineffective against the villains invading a spaceship, and was even smacked across the face by Hawkman (was it an impost...
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Record: Chuck Austen
2007-03-04 22:56:00
Here it is, just the entry we could use, a little listing of some of the worst writing acts of a since forgotten hack writer whom both Marvel and DC had the gall to hire to write some of their most high profile books, how about that! Austen, as far as I know, was an animation producer for King of the Hill in the past decade, and surprisingly enough, he even penciled a few of the issues of the otherwise abortive Elektra series that ran under the now defunct Marvel Knights label. But it?s as a scriptwriter that he really played foul. For example: He made Polaris into one of the most annoying characters in Uncanny X-Men. Really irritating dialect, and for a comic book, alarming too. He wrote an affair between Archangel and Husk, a very questionable act too, since Husk, if memory serves, is underage (around 16-17 years old), and so, this was really going overboard. He was even allowed to write Action Comics, probably the last insult to his record, but still one of the worst, and w...
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Profile: Huntress 2
2007-02-28 21:56:00
Helena Wayne/Bertinelli, Hunt ress 2First appearance: originally during the pre-Crisis era in All-Star Comics #69 and DC Super-Stars #17 in December 1977, where she was first known as Helena Wayne, daughter of the Earth-2 Batman and Catwoman. In her daytime job then, she first worked as a lawyer. Her first post-Crisis appearance was in her own-titled series, The Huntress #1, in April 1989. This time, she was the daughter of an Italian mafia don who was murdered by a rival gang, and grew up with relatives in Sicily, later returning to the US to live and work as a high school teacher, and with her martial arts training, she took up the nighttime job as the Huntress.Current status: member of Birds of Prey's cast.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: she?d been sexually abused as a child, and later on, in Batman?s No Man?s Land crossover in the late 1990s, she did not fare very well, if at all, in combatting the villains.What?s wrong with how this was done? Her post-Cri...
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Profile: Marlo Chandler-Jones
2007-02-17 21:28:00
Marlo Chan dler-Jones First appearance: The Incredible Hulk #347, 1988. She met Rick Jones, whom she?d later marry, through her first meeting the Hulk at the time he was rendered gray-skinned, in Las Vegas, where she worked as a call girl for a friendly casino owner who?d hired the Hulk as a security agent (under the name "Joe Fixit"). She also became a good friend of Betty Ross-Banner?s.Current status: working as a talk show host(?)Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: in 1992, she was murdered by Jackie Shorr, a psychotic woman posing as Rick?s mother, who?d once worked at the orphanages he?d lived at when he was a teenager, who was planning on killing him in her basement, but was later brought back to life when Rick made one of those Faustian deals, this one with the Leader, Sam Sterns, to use some technology he?d built in order to revive her. It worked, but she remained mindless for at least a few weeks before returning to full normal.What?s wrong with how this was...
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Record: Greg Rucka
2007-02-16 12:57:00
Nope, even he?s not going to evade criticism here, as I?ve concluded. Because he too seems to have a few errors in his writing portfolio, not the least being that he can?t seem to resist working for money (or so it would seem). So, what examples can I dish out for him? Let?s see: Sasha Bordeaux was his creation, if I?m not mistaken? Seems that she was intro?d simply for a few worthless reasons: so that she could be framed for the murder of onetime Bat-cast member Vesper Fairchild, and then suffer in jail at the hands of other violent inmates, as Bruce Wayne initially thought of abandoning her there(!). This was in order to create a rift between the two, as Sasha then is approached by some special agents for Checkmate, who offer her a job, and then fake her death as a way of slipping her out of prison. Batman eventually finds out, but after a heated discussion with Sasha, leaves her in peace. There?s something very odd about Rucka?s leading us to wonder if Ares is doubling back o...
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Record: Judd Winick
2007-02-15 14:45:00
I don?t own any of his books, and there are many stories he wrote that I wouldn?t touch with a ten-foot pole. And here below are a handful of examples of what?s wrong with him, not the least being that he?s what?s come to be known today as a moonbat: In 2003, he wrote Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, in which he killed off Donna Troy and Lilith Clay, the latter who?s been largely swept under the rug by DC since, and let?s just say that the women in that would-be miniseries virtually all come off badly there. It was one of the most rushed and worst items ever made. In 2005, he co-wrote Countdown to Infinite Crisis, in which Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, was killed off in gruesome, excessive fashion. When he took up writing Green Arrow, he wrote that Mia, who became a new Speedy, was infected with HIV in a forced storyline. Maybe not as bad as what Kevin Smith, when he intro?d her, did, but still uncalled for. In the 57th issue of GA, Dr. Light gloats about the ?joys? of rap...
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Profile: Jarella
2007-02-14 20:40:00
JarellaFirst appearance: The Incredible Hulk 140, 1971. She was the queen of a magical kingdom on a subatomic planet called K?ai.Current status: dead and buriedWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: in The Incredible Hulk #205 in 1976, she was killed by a falling slab of concrete from a damaged building while the Hulk was clashing with a robot called the Crypto-Man while saving a little boy from the same fate.What?s wrong with how this was done? Nothing at all, really. It was pretty well handled in its time. Jarella died heroically while saving an innocent life from harm?s way.Was there anything good to come out of this? Jarella?s story made for a very good one in its time. Even after her death, there was still much to be wrapped up, as the Hulk had to return her to her home planet where she could be given a decent burial, as was done in 1980.It?s an all but overlooked story that, if and when published in trade paperback, would be quite worthwhile to try out.
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Profile: Elektra
2007-02-10 22:12:00
Elektra NachiosFirst appearance: Daredevil #168 Vol. 1, 1979Current status: wandering the globe, not knowing what to really do with herself, certainly not the writers.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: murdered in bloody fashion by Bullseye in Daredevil #181 Vol. 1, 1983, one of the most vile acts of his career, but was resurrected in four years later (or was it in DD #190?). Since then, she has reformed, but has found little purpose, artistically anyway.What?s wrong with how this was done? Elektra is a rather complicated matter. It?s not that there was actually anything wrong with her being offed by Bulleye in the first place, unless you were to count that it was meant to influence Matt Murdock?s own development rather than hers. But while resurrection in comics, certainly for females, is something that?s actually welcome, in her case it?s fairly questionable, since the writers who took up tasks of working on her since then have not been able to figure out much ...
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Profile: Golden Glider
2007-02-04 19:58:00
Lisa Snart, Golden GliderFirst appearance: The Flash #250 Vol 1, 1977. The sister of Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold, she was co-created by Irv Novick, who gave her a costume design almost similar to one worn by Talia al-Ghul that he drew for her in the Batbooks.Current status: deadWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: Mark Waid, when writing the 1992 Flash Annual, reverted her to her criminal status, after all the time when, since Barry Allen had died in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, she?d reformed, not having any further purpose for being a criminal ? the Flash was her only reason for being one, as she held him responsible for the death of her boyfriend, the Top, and wanted to seek revenge upon by targeting his loved ones, whether they be Iris West Allen or Barry?s parents. Then, in 1996, after being largely out of the picture for four years, Waid revealed her having been frozen to death by one of the Chillblaines she?d recruited as her crime partners/boyfriends.W...
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Profile: Talia al-Ghul
2007-02-03 22:26:00
Talia al-Ghul First appearance: Detective Comics #441, May 1971Current status: a villainess, thanks to possible manipulation by ways of both her father Ra?s al-Ghul and half-sister Nyssa.Was subjected to the following act of discrimination: in Batman: Death and the Maidens, she was captured and brainwashed by Nyssa as part of a revenge plot against Ra?s, but was actually part of a larger plot in which Ra?s plotted to convince or brainwash both daughters into accepting roles as leaders of his League of Assassins, and the Demon gang. She disavowed her love for Batman during this time and turned against him as a result of the torture she underwent at the hands of Nyssa (who appears to have since been killed by Cassandra Cain).What?s wrong with how this was done? They ruined one of the best anti-heroines in comics, and one of the best recurring characters in the Batbooks. All of this was apparently done to coincide with ?events? leading up to Infinite Crisis, and as a tie to Villains Uni...
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Profile: Magik
2007-01-26 16:06:02
Illyana Rasputina, MagikFirst appearance: She was first seen as a child in Giant-Size X-Men #1, but her first actual appearance was Uncanny X-Men #160. She?s the younger sister of Piotr Rasputin (Colossus), and like him is also a native of Russia. (In English, her last name does not include the letter A at the end, but that appears to be how they spelled it not just for her, but even for her mother!) She was a member of New Mutants and a good friend of Kitty Pryde.Current status: deadWas subjected to the following acts of discrimination: held captive by the villainous Arcade and his assistant Miss Locke to use as a pawn in attacking the X-Men, held captive by a sorceror named Belasco in the Otherplace (Limbo) dimension, where he turned part of her soul demonic, used it to conjure up bloodstones, and even made her look part vampiric before she finally beat him in a battle and drove him out of his own realm, regaining her human form again. However, she later became infected with the L...
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Profile: Mary Jane Watson-Parker
2007-01-25 22:04:02
Mary Jane Watson -Park erFirst appearance: approximately late 1965 in Amazing Spider-Man, although she may not have been seen in direct view. It was in mid-1966 when she made her first actual appearance in ASM #42, with the now famous scene where she tells Peter Parker, ?Face it, tiger! You?ve just hit the jackpot!? The daughter of estranged/divorced parents, she was a teen woman?s libber, or just a very independent girl who thought for herself, and did her best to rise from the blue-collar existence she first grew up in around New York City by achieving a successful career in acting on stage and in supermodeling.Current status: married to our friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man since 1987.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: editorial bias, you could say. It would seem as though, out of nowhere, there came some anti-MJ bias, by the writers/editors and even by some alleged Spider-Fans, that?s led in recent years to her being subjected to misuse by the writing and editi...
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Record: Grant Morrison
2007-01-25 22:04:02
He?s overrated, and his criticism of Frank Miller on Newsarama was in poor taste, one more reason why his work will do quite well for scrutiny. So, what did he do that makes the list here? It?s mostly from his take on X-Men that this comes from. He regurgitated the Phoenix farrago, had Cyclops utter a nerve-wracking sentence as if Jean were the Phoenix, warning her that she could ?lose control? again, then started giving Jean Phoenix-style powers again under the claim that it was a ?rogue manifestation?. Boring! Also uncalled for. We get a stereotypical villainess in Cassandra Nova (and why did she have the codename of minor superhero Richard Ryder?). If you don?t know how she sliced a scientist named Trask to death, you won?t want to know even now. Filthy! Morris on?s depiction of Magneto was one of the most obnoxious, crass abuses of an already misused character I?ve ever seen. It?s bad enough that Magneto may have caused tons of deaths in the early 1990s when he disrupted th...
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Even artists have their share of faults and blame (someday,
2007-01-15 03:56:03
Even artists have their share of faults and blame (someday, maybe I?ll let you know what I think of Dick Dillin for 2 or 3 nigh-offensive panels he drew in Justice League of America in the early 1970s), and in Mr. Morales? case, he certainly hasn?t done himself much good by taking one positive item he drew, and then damaging his credibility upon that with another. What exactly am I referencing here? Well, that?ll come up in just a moment: In Hawkman Vol. 4, we get the background of Kendra Saunders, current Hawkgirl, who, when she was around 13 years old, had been out with her mother Trina in the west Texas countryside where her mother, a skilled landscape painter, was spending the day working on her talent, when two racist patrolmen came along and took the two of them hostage at gunpoint, with the intention of raping Mrs. Saunders out of a hate crime (Kendra and her mother are of Hispanic background). Kendra fought back against one of the two policemen, whose name was Nedal, k...
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Profile: Jean DeWolff
2007-01-11 15:54:08
Jean DeWolf fFirst appearance: Marvel Team-Up #48. She was a NY police captain and frequent guest star for a time in Spider-Man?s adventures, proving a most helpful ally many times.Current status: deadWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: she was terminated by her ex-lover Stan Carter, alias Sin-Eater.What?s wrong with how this was done? I think it was a case of needlessly tossing out yet another cast member of Spidey?s world with potential. Jean had some very good moments, and why not give her some more?Was there anything good to come out of this? That it may have had some dramatic impact and value to it. The story can be found today compiled in trade format, in Amazing Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff, co-authored by Peter David and Rich Buckler. It was revealed that her feeling towards Spidey may have been even warmer than what she may have usually indicated.
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Profile: Ice
2007-01-05 03:49:01
Tora Olafsdotter, Ice (also Ice Maiden 2)First appearance: Justice League International #12, April 1988. She was the daughter of a king of a tribe of magical ice people in Norway, and at one point she even took up the longer name of a predecessor, Ice Maiden, who?d first worked as the Global Guardians? representative from Norway before her, that being Sigrid Nansen. She was also loved by Guy Gardner.Current status: deadWas subjected to the following act of discrimination: she was killed while turning against the Overmaster, who?d offered her a power-up, in Justice League Task Force #14, July 1994.What?s wrong with how this was done? Apparently, it was all part of an editorial mandate, something which, in fact, had originally been intended back around the time when she debuted. But when she started catching on with readers and received a much-deserved following, that?s what kept DC editorial from killing her off initially. Unfortunately, in 1994, the fate first intended caught up wit...
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Profile: Polaris
2006-12-28 21:41:05
Lorna Dane, Polar isFirst appearance: The X-Men in 1967Current status: occasional member of the X-Men.Was subjected to the following acts of discrimination: when the onetime hack writer Chuck Austen was assigned to write Uncanny X-Men in 2003, he savaged her character with alarming heavy-handedness, writing her with some of the most unbearable dialect you?ve ever heard in comics. All this in order to put her at odds with the rest of the X-Men, alienate her, and even to ruin her relationship with Havok.What?s wrong with how this was done? No realism whatsoever, just character assassination by a writer who clearly had no respect for the characters, and was only interested in money.It?s fortunate that this has since been dropped and forgotten, but that doesn?t excuse the negligence they led to in the first place, which could have been avoided, and was one of the biggest farces in comics history.
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Record: Geoff Johns
2006-12-25 09:38:03
Although not as overt in potential bias to women as some other writers are, John s still has a few noteworthy faults of his own that can be put on record here, as follows: The use of Magenta in The Flash as an insane tool, and even the questionable characterization of Girder as a possible sex offender. In The Flash #199, the neo-Reverse-Flash strikes Linda Park West to the ground with a vibrating shockwave, terminating her pregnancy until the time-warp effects in issues #224-225 change all that. His story in The Flash #213 implying that the Turtle could be a child-molestor was a very serious abuse of a longtime character. He went along with the whole Identity Crisis crap, even in the pages of JSA, with the first storyline stemming from that in 2004 being really painful (and autopsy on Sue). So too in fact was the second one a year later, with the Spectre, and the corrupted Jean Loring-as-Eclipso. He wrote an awful story in Teen Titans featuring Captain Carrot and his Am...
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