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Are you tired of having to comb through dozens of articles trying to figure out if DC Comics has done something cringeworthy today?
When you don’t just want to be safe and assume “Yes.” Sometimes, you need accuracy.
SUPERMAN: I can only tell you what I believe, Diana: humankind has to be allowed to climb to its own destiny. We can’t carry them there.
FLASH: But that’s what she’s saying. What’s the point? Why should they need us at all?
SUPERMAN: To catch them if they fall.
-JLA #4, Grant Morrison
The Birth Of a Hero…Over and Over and Over Again
You know what they say: every hero has a beginning.
Okay, actually, generally in the case of…
On IHO Geek this week, I share my feelings on retellings of superhero origins and deny that there has ever been an attempt to make a Green Lantern movie.
Next week PBS will air Wonder Women! The Untold Story of America’s Superheroines that looks at the history, and more importantly, the legacy of Wonder Woman.
I viewed the documentary a few weeks ago and it is a powerful piece that shows why heroic characters like Wonder Woman are so important to society and to young girls and women. It includes interviews with Gloria Steinem, Lynda Carter, Gail Simone and Trina Robbins among others as well as everyday women who have been inspired by the character.
The project has been a labor of love over many years for the film’s director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan. I’ve touched base with her over the years as she’s been funding, creating and showing the film around the country. With the film about to debut to a television audience, she took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to talk about the project.
This documentary is AMAZING. I wrote about it back here, but I’d just like to re-iterate: I cried. This is powerful stuff and from the origins of Wonder Woman to the “will you choose to be strong” speech from the series finale of Buffy, it shows the history, the impact and the importance of superheroines.
So, all of you: read this interview, watch this documentary and keep kicking ass.
He’s really slipping when it comes to his cake theft goals. I remember back when he could take forty cakes. That’s as many as four tens.
And that’s terrible.
You’ve probably heard the news about what’s coming up in Batman. Let us take this chance to revisit that time I hosted Nerds on the Rocks and Superboy Prime punched a hole in the universe to solve all of our problems.
In his honor: my most honest work of art ever.
You know who easily and completely understands Wonder Woman?
These two right here.
You know who finds her ‘difficult’ to understand?
Everyone in Hollywood, apparently.
But ZOMG, how can she be “strong” and “a woman” at the same time? Oh, you mean like a BITCH, right? So, she’s a bitch who shuns anything feminine?
Wait, no? But. That doesn’t make sense! Oh, wait, so she’s strong but she’s secretly lovelorn because the guy she’s after is married and she privately cries over this?
STILL no?
Well, we’re running out of stereotypes here, so that’s it. No Wonder Woman movie or TV show for you. Next time, make sure your leading female isn’t so “well-rounded,” dammit!
So, You’ve Found Out Gail Simone is Off ‘Batgirl,’ Now What?
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My first piece for IHO Geek is up and is a hard hitting and gritty story about the world of comics journalism.
Or it’s full of a bunch of nerd jokes and love for Gail Simone. I can’t remember which.
