An eye-witness report by yours truly on last weekend's New York Anime Festival is up on the Friends of Lulu blog. Complete with hot pics of intense fellows in black shirts playing Magic The Gathering!
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"Comics: The Ron Paul Effect"
Presidential candidate Ron Paul tells Comic Mix who his favorite superhero is...the answer might surprise you!
Paul's choice leads one poster on the John Byrne message boards to comment,
"That's an obscure choice, even for comic book fans. Ron Paul really is trying to cater to the internet geek vote."
I dunno, if he was catering for the internet geek vote, he might have more luck with "Naruto."
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"Custom Sexy Bra And Panty Padme"
...for the Star Wars collector who has everything, brought to you from the makers of "Custom Sexy Leather Bondage Padme"
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"Knock Up Backtrack"
Was filming "Knocked Up" a sexist experience or the best experience of Katherine Heigl's career?
Her first quote on the subject:
"a little sexist”
second, later quote:
"it was the best filming experience of my career."
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"Kitty's Delivery Service"
So after all my bitching about mainstream comics publishers failing to catch the manga wave, I find out that Marvel has made a deal with Del Ray to produce X-Men manga:
It’s the X-Men as you’ve never seen them before, with the storyline fashioned as a private school shôjo comedy. (Shôjo manga is aimed at girls and often covers popular subjects such as comedy, romance, and drama.) As the only girl in the all-boys School for Gifted Youngsters, Kitty Pryde, a mutant with phasing abilities, is torn between the popular Hellfire Club, led by flame-throwing mutant Pyro–and the school misfits, whom she eventually bands together as the X-Men.
Marvel, I have just one word for you: Yaoi. Pronounced, "YOW-we," as in "Wowee!"
Wolverine/Gambit. Logan's the old pro, Gambit's the young newbie trying to make it in Xavier's school. That's all I'm saying. I'm done now.
(tip of the hat to The Beat for the article)
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"So Wertham Wasn't Completely Full of S**t"
Scanned excerpts from Fredric Wertham's classic anti-comic screed "Seduction of the Innocent" reveal that the doctor was also against racism in the funny books:
"White men in jungle books are blond, Nordic he-men, athletic and shapely, while the colored natives are characterized as subhuman. The superman type of comic book also needs an endless stream of criminal "foreign-looking" people to justify the constant use of force and superforce. These are always Negroes, Jews, Slavs, and Orientals, characterized by irregular features, swarthy skins, physical deformities. While the United States spends millions of dollars to persuade the world that hatred is not an integral part of American life, millions of U.S. comics exported all over the world show an endless stream of prejudice-producing images."
This of course started a bit of a discussion on the comments section of the blog where the pages were reproduced. One commenter said that Wertham's anti-racism stance might have just been a "cover" for his nefarious anti-comics agenda. Another defended Wertham, pointing out that he did work for civil rights. But as always, it is the gut-response from a comic book lover on the blog that rather stops the conversation cold:
"This (Wertham's) article was the direct cause of the burning of my entire E.C. collection."
See? Pin-drop.
For the record, my mom thought those Marvel Handbook "Books of the Dead"
were pretty goddamn morbid. But didn't burn them. She just laughed at them. I think it would have been cooler if she burned them. 'Cause then I woulda felt more like a rebel and less like a total geek. (article found at Journalista)************************************************************************************
Video: Pop-Culture Reality Check
When many of your parents were young, this was considered "edgy" sexualized entertainment that all the cool kids were into:
In other news, a woman with Annette's posterior would have been ambushed by today's media as being "too fat." I think Amy Winehouse is our generation's Annette.
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