Designated Sidekick

Designated Sidekick

Oh Google.

June 30, 2007, Filed under: Snark, no value to WFA whatsoever, whimsical — @ 8:09 pm

Designated Sidekick: Year Two

Designated Sidekick *I do want to put an explanation on this point: This is a surprisingly recurrent …. I love being the goddamn Designated Sidekick.
girl-wonder.org/designatedsidekick/ - 51k - 22 Jun 2007

Google makes me sound like a Frank Miller character.  What happened to their promise of not doing evil?
(I’m not actually dead. Really. It’s June still isn’t it?)

 

“Just go write your own comics” + “cheesecake sells” = PROFIT. So why aren’t more men making more comics about SuperCleavageEndowedG-String Girl?

June 12, 2007, Filed under: Core Posts, Serious, Snark — @ 3:41 pm
Comic books would like to remind you that they target specific markets.
Citizen Steel is demonstrating which part of the young male market that certain publishers think is the most valuable to target.
Citizen Steele
Thank you for your continued cooperation in this matter.

I have been told that cheesecake sells, and the promotion of sexualised women is a financially viable commodity. I usually disagree with this point, but, assuming that this is correct, and cheesecake is a financial viable medium, why don’t more men produce their own comics? The word is that there’s a market for it. I’ve heard comic book bloggers and forum members say there’s a need for it. It’s been said to be profitable. Why don’t more men show the Tony Stark sort of entrepreneurial get go to get their own slice of the (American) pie?

Competition, reduction of competition, and a market opening
If you’re into comic books for the breasts and dollars, would it not become in your interest for Marvel and DC to be moved out this arena? You could motivate yourself with a burning dissatisfaction about the smallness of PowerGirl’s breasts by creating your own comics where you would be able to provide a commercially viable product for the market that seeks hand drawn women, drawn by men (and women), for other men (and women), in male pleasing sexualised poses.

You’d be able to make your Powergirl’s breasts as big as you pleased. Plus! With an upsurge in non sexualised comics, Marvel and DC would have taken those annoying comic book fans who want art and story and characterisation and all of those other problematic elements that relegate breasts to second place out of your way, and left you with a massively profitable market of men and women who just want sexualised content.

So, for the male gaze crew who promote the incorporation of sexualised women in mainstream comics, why not go make your own comics?

I’m told it’s profitable, right?

Discuss this on the G-W Forums

 

Sounds of silence

June 8, 2007, Filed under: Core Posts, Snark — @ 1:10 am

I’m not actually dead.

I am miffed that I couldn’t get a single damn justification out of the internet over the H4H#13 cover.

I am amused that Rational wandered off.

I am also oh so slightly on the quiet side of things because I’m up to something nefarious backstage.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*flounces off into the night*

I love being the goddamn Designated Sidekick.

Back later, once the trouble and the coffee have finished brewing

 

Bendis likes Cho’s Butts. Whether he can lie or not is uncertain

November 18, 2006, Filed under: Snark — @ 10:33 am

I’m borrowing a small passage quoted by Karen’s much better post “Person vs Persona, Or, INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM LOLZ!!”

ETA: As Karen points out, the quote was in need of repairs

“Then I go back in and balloon the s*** out of it, keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho butt with a balloon. NEVER!!” Bendis laughed.”

I think I fear this quote more than our misquote.

…Then I go back in and delete the s*** out of it, keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho butt with a balloon. NEVER!!” Bendis laughed.

So, let’s go quoting, round 2

Question 1. Why do these guys never have poodle fetishes?

Then I go back in and balloon the s*** out of it, keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho poodle with a balloon. NEVER!!” Bendis laughed.

Or bananas?

Then I go back in and balloon the s*** out of it, keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho banana with a balloon. NEVER!!” Bendis laughed.

Or Male Crotches?

Then I go back in and balloon the s*** out of it, keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho crotch with a balloon. NEVER!!” Bendis laughed.

Or actually stick to their promise of “go back in and delete the s*** out of it”. Since they’re “keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho ass with a balloon”, Bendis is clearly keeping the shit in the comic.

The money quote for me remains “keeping in mind to never cover up a Cho butt with a balloon.”. Look, Bendis, buddy, can i call you Bendy? It’s probably nice for you that you’ve got a fetish for the sketched fantasy asses produced by your coworker, but dude, seriously, fetishism on your own time, not on the clock at Marvel.

You’re meant to be writing a comic book here, not a ChoButt spotters guide. Knowing that your stated priority is ensuring pencil and ink butt gets space in the panel does not fill me with confidence in the forthcoming work of Mighty Avengers.

Knowing this though, we have a new benchmark to play with in the forthcoming Mighty Avengers! ChoButts In Disguise!

If the butts are that important, will we get Captain America’s US-A grade tush? How about the Hulk? What say a bit of Spiderbutt? IronButtman? Thor’s got the body of a god, so he’d have an ass to match, right?

If there’s a word bubble hiding a Bendy-buddy Chobutts in the series, the reader gains 10 Chobutt points! Highest scorer gets to be thoroughly dismayed the hidden (word) bubble butts!

 

Vertigo Makes Complete First Issue Classics Available for Free

November 16, 2006, Filed under: Snark — @ 12:50 pm

Vertigo Makes Complete First Issue Classics Available for Free
November 10, 2006

Now you can read the full first issues of the many Vertigo series that revolutionized comics! Follow the links below to download a PDF version of the first issue of these classic Vertigo series now collected in graphic novel form. When you visit the Graphic Novels section of VertigoComics.com, any graphic novel titles with a #1 icon () will have a download of the ground-breaking first issue!

http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=6186

Not sure how long it’ll last, what sort of madness will ensue, and whether I’ll be to blame for linking you to the fresh powdery sugary sweet crack of comics, but hey, they’re out there, free and comic book like.

DS

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