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The Goddamn BatRobin Bobbin? WTF COSTUME?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
One Part Batman, One Part Robin

One Part Batman, One Part Robin = No Part good idea

I will alway refer to the Batcowl + Robin costume as The Bobbin.

Okay. Okay. This is hard.  I know you’re leaving me. You canned Robin, sacked Steph again (after only recently reinstating her in such a canon jarringly bad way), killed Bruce is such a hysterically bad way, canned Blue Beetle just before his big silver screen push and you’ve probably going to quit Booster Gold on me.

DC, we’ve been through some rough times, some good times, and now there’s this.  You’ve made it clear you want to dump me, and this time, I’m out.

Screw you DC. I’m leaving you for medium with less painful stupidity, and better costume choices.  I’m moving in with the daytime soap operas.

Designated Sidekick out.

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Final Crisis 6

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

That’s all I have to say that ain’t more spoilery than Steph’s costume design notebook.

Just… I can’t believe the sequence of events leading into the “Big Twist Surprise Spoiler”.  Unless, y’know, Marvel tripped and poured a bucket of Skrull on the Final Crisis Timeline.

Can Superboy Prime take up Timestream Boxing again?  This ending is delightfully hysterically wrong, and needs its own reboot.

ETA: A link to the spoiler filled pages in question.  Oh my canon! Grant Morrison, you silly goose. I can’t believe you did that so…badly.  Like

PS. Marvel did it better.

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The forgotten in the festival of the fruit

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Venn diagram representing the relationship between (botanical) fruits and vegetables. Botanical fruits that are not vegetables are culinary fruits.Image from Wikipedia

It’s been alright for some in the recognition of vegetables and fruits to over look the plight of the Wolf Peach (Lycopersicon).  But have you ever spared a thought for those in the shadow of both fruit and vegetable?

Whilst my fellow bloggers will be outraged at the portrayals of violence against fruit in webcomics and the suffering of vegetables in manga, they go oddly silent at the sight of pizza.  Little more than munching and grunting sounds are ever heard on the issue of the rampant slaughter of the wolf peach kind in the name of pizza toppings.

Not today though.

From out of the shadow of fruits and vegetables shall step the tomato.

It will not be forgotten by the Designated Sidechefkick.

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Short Round Up: That Playboy cover

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Short  comment on the that Playboy cover featuring someone painted into a bad imitation of a Wonder Woman costume

  1. It’s a bad imitation. That’s not Wonder Woman, that’s a celebrity in bodypaint.  Accessorize people, Accessorize! Lasso! Wrist band! INVISIBLE SANDWICH! err INDIVISIBLE JET!
  2. Playboy rips off Frank Miller’s cover quite a bit there, doesn’t it?
  3. Anybody got a definitive answer to question of whether DC authorised/licenced the use of their copyright materials for the cover?  I can’t imagine that Playbo’s lawyers would have cleared publishing a pretty blatant legal liability from Warner Bros.
  4. If you want to see a disconnect between superheroic fantasy and mundane reality, look at the cover of the playbody.  This is the “costume” that we’re so mundanely used to seeing on hand drawn characters, it looks bloody stupid on a real person. OMG My costume is painted on yay!
  5. As far as anything akin to sex appeal – I keep laughing at the cover, largely because I can’t stop rewriting it as an alternate universe PETA campaign “I’d rather fight crime naked than wear spandex!”
  6. I have nothing to add on the substantive issues beyond saying that I like what Ragnell’s written because I’m not really up to speed with the Wonder Woman/Lynda Carter side of things.
    1. Anyone who has previously claimed the existence of a hive vagina and notices that Ragnell and Cheryl Lynn aren’t seeing eye to eye can have a cognitive disonance cookie
    2. Anyone who tries to prove some point about it being overblown reaction because two feminists have different opinions will be met with a swift kick to the Akismet filter.  I mean it.

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Black Canary #4: The Case of the Little Colourist Who Couldn’t

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Let’s do a little observation.  In Black Canary, after Dinah Lance knocks Ollie down, she asks if Arrowette GreenSpoiler  Mia wants to try stopping her.  Note Mia’s chest logo.  It’s yellow, arrowish, and arrowishly yellow and not a boob window. Later, when shown as part of the rescue of Sin during Operation:Let’s Create an unconvincing marriage proposal acceptance Confused Writers, the colourist appears to prioritise boobs over costume continuity.

Mia’s Arrow

Sure, it’s an easy mistake to forget to put in the costume’s alternate colours.  It happens to male characters all the time.  See below.

It happen to Bart once

 

Why, it even happens to Kyle

This never happened to Hal Jordan

 

Not to mention that one time where Alex  Ross totally forgot that Superman wears a yellow shirt under that costume, and Flash and Hal have white singlets.

Okay, so it happened to Hal

 

Okay, so I had to run through Photoshop to make the point.

 

Basically, the colourist on Black Canary fucked up Mia’s costume, and because the sexy is apparently all encompassing and all forgiving, it’s okay that someone didn’t get the art right, and the editorial didn’t pick up the breast  display was out of costume, and… just how old is Mia anyway?

 

In short, I don’t give a damn whether you think Mia’s boob window is sexy or in character or what – the art team couldn’t get the costume  right through out a miniseries.

 

Four episodes, and that can’t be done well?

 

That’s crap performance from people paid to be professional and get it right.

 

Pick up your game DC.

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