~ r.i.p.
The Best of Spider-Man
~ r.i.p.
The Best of Spider-Man
~ Back when we still posted our quarterly thoughts on this site, we would often take time to chastise DC comics for posting regressive, inappropriately sexualized content. As we are not hypocrites, now is the time to call Marvel Comics on its shit for releasing the most dehumanizing, chauvinist cover by major publisher this year. Anyone who has read and re-read the angry red planet’s x-files/quantum leap slash fiction knows we are a sex-positive organization, but MILO MANARA’s cover for Spider-Woman #1 is so embarrassing, we are hesitant to post it here. After all the kudos that Marvel has reaped for publishing positive models such as the new Ms. Marvel, we hope that they have the good sense to be embarrassed by this garbage.
how to draw comics the dc way*:
PANEL 4
Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of “oh well, guess that”s it for me” and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen.
*aka: female characters are good for two things: sex and dying.
to be considered worthy for dc comics, you need to demonstrate your ability to depict women committing suicide. naked. fuck dc comics!!
~ reed richards, ‘the smartest man in the marvel universe’
the state of pennsylvania doesn’t have a coast, professor. i hate the times when comics are dumb for no reason.
[ed. lake erie does not count]
~ everyone else is posting end-of-year listicles, so why can’t we? but what are we going to post, ‘your 2 favourite mmm-sections of 2012’? no, we instead will post some of our favourite consumer goods: the 10 coolest covers from comic books that we read this the year. ‘happy new year’
The Massive #3 by Rafael Grampá
~ spoiler alert!! ‘our’ local store put this joint on the shelves a week early. get into it!
~ we normally don’t post about dc comics here, but today they have done something worthy of ridicule, so we can’t resist. guillem march’s original cover of ‘catwoman 0’ was rightly maligned across the internet, and dc tried to respond by changing the cover. unfortunately, for them anyway, the new one is just as unreal.
while it is admirable(?)that they gave catwoman an ass reduction and re-attached her breasts to her body, we still believe that you can not bend your spine backwards 90 degrees. her left leg looks to be about three times as long as her torso, the right leg is about the length of the left leg’s shin. her left hand is grossly enlarged, so perhaps march is employing a thing called ‘foreshortening’. to his credit, after all, it could be possible for a human body to be so contorted if we are looking at her from 2000 yards away, through both wide-angle and telephoto lenses simultaneously, a ‘technique’ we used to employ on our interior models, back when we were still ‘doing architecture’.
ps. the new dc logo sucks!
~ polar bears live in the arctic region, not in antarctica. i hate the times when comics are dumb for no reason.
~ from the angry red planet inbox:
man, every time a bio-pic comes out, they try to sell you a biography with a photo of a movie actor on the cover instead of the actual person the book is about. it makes me so upset! -JHT, the year ‘frida’ came out
we see what you mean,JHT!
also, do we need a ‘prelude’ to this character’s movie appearance? aren’t the 40 years of existing stories the prelude? bah, black widow is a lame character, anyway; all she can do is shoot pistols.
