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For fuck's sake Quesada!
Dec. 6th, 2008 02:15 amHe's a damned cop-killer!. You're my age, so I know you can remember the giant controversy and shit-storm that blew up over someone just calling a SONG "Cop-Killer". And you've spent over a year having your writers push Norman as heroic in the public eye. And now Bendis, the fucking writer who wrote the fucking comic where he fucking KILLED A DOZEN FUCKING COPS, is writing your book where Norman gets named to take over as head of the Avengers and the orginization thats meant to replace S.H.I.E.L.D. Do you understand what SUPSENSION OF DISBELIEF is? Because isn't how you make that work!
Tigra redux redux
Oct. 28th, 2007 02:19 amMan, I never would have guessed I'd be spending this much time venting on the treatment of Tigra of all characters. And yet here I am again. Oh well, its my journal. I don't have a pet cat to post pics of, and I no longer have the "my family drives me nuts" angst. So might as well spend time venting about a character I barely noticed before now. In the comics blogosphere the debate, yelling and counter debate and occasional out-right trolling over the sequence and the writer and artist continues. And one of the arguements being used is the old "it happens to male characters also, so there is nothing wrong". In this specific case using a fight between the Hood and Wolverine in a previous issue...
So lets recap that fight. Wolverine tracks the Hood and his lackey back to their bar and attacks them. He growls out how he can smell the Hood so he might as well stop with the invisibilty. The Hood shoots Wolverine a few times while managing to avoid getting shish-kabobbed. Even blasting Wolverine in the face doesn't do much between the admantium skull and the super-healing factor. So in desperation the Hood guns Wolverine in the junk, blowing off his soft man bits. And though in pain our Canadian Manly Man keeps on the offense. After all it'll all grow back. The Hood panics and goes all demon-y but Wolverine keeps after him. So the bad guy runs away. Wolverine leans back against the bar, makes a quip and waits for his dick to grow back...
And what was the scene with Tigra? She comes home after getting reamed and threatened by the SHRA dicks with a transfer to Arkansas, because the cops decided she was the bad guy and not Jigsaw. Yeah, because NY cops are too fucking stupid to recognize an Avenger vs. the only bad guy to ever survive running into the Punisher multiple times. But anyway, she gets back to her home, sniffs something going on and then gets pistol whipped for several pages. The Hood, while beating on the super-strong, super-fast hero, calls up her mom so that he can threaten Tigra with momacide if she messes with his guys again. And the whole time a giggling Jigsaw video tapes the beating and broadcasts it back to Thug HQ to the cheers and yells of all the other minor bad guys the Hood has recruited. And Tigra, who has cat like reflexes, claws, enhanced senses, super-strength enough to dig into stone or metal and her own berserker well of werecat Rage; flails about helplessly while LITERALLY screaming Aiieee over and over again...
So Wolverine suffers a painful but non-permanent wound and doesn't catch the bad guy. Tigra is shown to be a helpless widdle girl in something that comes DAMN close to being a snuff film...
Yep, exactly the same...
So lets recap that fight. Wolverine tracks the Hood and his lackey back to their bar and attacks them. He growls out how he can smell the Hood so he might as well stop with the invisibilty. The Hood shoots Wolverine a few times while managing to avoid getting shish-kabobbed. Even blasting Wolverine in the face doesn't do much between the admantium skull and the super-healing factor. So in desperation the Hood guns Wolverine in the junk, blowing off his soft man bits. And though in pain our Canadian Manly Man keeps on the offense. After all it'll all grow back. The Hood panics and goes all demon-y but Wolverine keeps after him. So the bad guy runs away. Wolverine leans back against the bar, makes a quip and waits for his dick to grow back...
And what was the scene with Tigra? She comes home after getting reamed and threatened by the SHRA dicks with a transfer to Arkansas, because the cops decided she was the bad guy and not Jigsaw. Yeah, because NY cops are too fucking stupid to recognize an Avenger vs. the only bad guy to ever survive running into the Punisher multiple times. But anyway, she gets back to her home, sniffs something going on and then gets pistol whipped for several pages. The Hood, while beating on the super-strong, super-fast hero, calls up her mom so that he can threaten Tigra with momacide if she messes with his guys again. And the whole time a giggling Jigsaw video tapes the beating and broadcasts it back to Thug HQ to the cheers and yells of all the other minor bad guys the Hood has recruited. And Tigra, who has cat like reflexes, claws, enhanced senses, super-strength enough to dig into stone or metal and her own berserker well of werecat Rage; flails about helplessly while LITERALLY screaming Aiieee over and over again...
So Wolverine suffers a painful but non-permanent wound and doesn't catch the bad guy. Tigra is shown to be a helpless widdle girl in something that comes DAMN close to being a snuff film...
Yep, exactly the same...
Fer fucks sake.
Oct. 20th, 2007 04:10 amAnd also, people don’t like cats, so it gets a bit more of a pass. Most people reading New Avengers are dog people. Brian Michael Bendis talking about the brutal beating he had Tigra undergo in the most recent New Avengers. Thanks Bendis, you insufferable ass. I actually had some mild doubts about dropping everything you might ever write. I mean I used to like Powers quite a lot. And I thought Goldfish was a brilliant bit of crime noir. But this story is shit. Your writing on the OTHER Avengers book? Shit. Even Powers hasn't been up to its old standards...
And Bendis also explains that he's not misogynistic AT ALL. Because he SAYS he's not. I mean its not like he's ever killed off a female character just to add to the angst of the male character. Ok maybe the Sentry over on MA, when Girltron killed his wife. And ok, maybe Diamond/Walker lost a love interest. Or two. Or three. Or in fact FOUR. But theres nothing in ANY of your writing that could be seen as anti-female...
And Bendis also explains that he's not misogynistic AT ALL. Because he SAYS he's not. I mean its not like he's ever killed off a female character just to add to the angst of the male character. Ok maybe the Sentry over on MA, when Girltron killed his wife. And ok, maybe Diamond/Walker lost a love interest. Or two. Or three. Or in fact FOUR. But theres nothing in ANY of your writing that could be seen as anti-female...
And we're done
Oct. 10th, 2007 10:50 pmBrian Micheal Bendis used to be one of my favorite comics writers. Between Powers and Alias he was giving me a nice change-up from regular super-hero books with plenty of snappy dialogue. And I even enjoyed some of his older forays into crime and noir. But after seeing series of images at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
scans_daily from a recent Avengers book, I'm done with him. But I'm tired of his willingness to make characters he seems to dislike seem utterly incompetent (Tigra, Spider-Girl, Speedball). Its not like I have to drop much. I don't do more than skim the odd Avengers book on the stands and right now I'm only buying the often delayed Powers. Which is getting dropped the next time I'm in the shop. Bendis can join Winnick, Geoff Johns and other former favorites in the Avoid Pile alongside the likes of Paul Jenkins and Mark Millar...
scans_daily from a recent Avengers book, I'm done with him. But I'm tired of his willingness to make characters he seems to dislike seem utterly incompetent (Tigra, Spider-Girl, Speedball). Its not like I have to drop much. I don't do more than skim the odd Avengers book on the stands and right now I'm only buying the often delayed Powers. Which is getting dropped the next time I'm in the shop. Bendis can join Winnick, Geoff Johns and other former favorites in the Avoid Pile alongside the likes of Paul Jenkins and Mark Millar...
