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Comic book stuff. I find it and I post it.

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I'm in Germany right now and I wish I had some Bailey's to pour out for REB -M

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WHAT?? REBOOT?! 

Commission!

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O M God yes!

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marvel char guide - peggy carter

dedication: sectvmsempras

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“Nice boots, Tinker Bell!”: Steve Rogers as an allegory for the impossibility of performative masculinity.

There’s nothing new about the consideration of male superheroes as icons of masculinity. Superman representing the pinnacle of wholesome, idealised masculine power, or The Hulk as an allegory for the angry, repressed male id. And these types of masculinity are not innate or inevitable. Masculinity, like all gender roles is a socially constructed performance.

But performative masculinity has a tension to it that performative femininity does not, because performing itself is seen as innately unmasculine. You cannot learn to be a real man, you are or you are not. You can’t make one or learn to be one. Because our story about masculinity is that it just is. It is an ur state of being. The most natural way for a human to be.

Steve Rogers came out of a bottle.

And Steve Rogers’s weapon is a shield. Steve does not attack, he defends. Steve Rogers is the only Avenger who does not thrust forward with a phallic weapon. From Loki’s staff to Clint’s arrows, Black Widow (who pairs so well with Steve because she is a phallic woman) has guns, Tony essentially is a giant penis (sorry, friends, that’s all I see), and of course no one would even pretend that Thor’s hammer isn’t Thor’s penis.

But Steve has a shield. And a shield isn’t particularly feminine. It is not a cup or a sheath or a hole. It is just anti-phallic.

And that is Steve. the non-phallic man. Because you can’t make a man in a machine. Only a strange kind of monster.

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Make way for the next generation.

Dream Roster, by Jamal Campbell.

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Harley Quinn is a woman who dropped a fight when she figured out Black Canary was pregnant and sat and talked with her and visited her in the hospital with baby gifts.

She is a woman with a doctorate degree who can break into Arkham with only a handful of objects, something no other Batman villain can do.

She’s a woman who knows she’s been abused and is working past it.

She’s a woman who called Dr Fate on his shit because “some of us went to school and earned that title”.

Doctor Harleen Quinzel is a complex character who is probably going to be reduced to Shooting Sex Toy in Suicide Squad and nothing makes me more disappointed.

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Ladies, let’s make comics in Chicago!

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Mike Mignola´s Nightbreed

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She Has No Head! - 6 Sublime Superheroine Redesigns - Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

I’ve been thinking about superhero redesigns, in part thanks to our awesome interview with Kris Anka on 3 Chicks Review Comics. We talked a lot about the difference between good artists and good designers, and how important getting an artist that knows about design and fashion is to having a modern and functional looking costume. …

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Fantomah - Jungle Comics #2 (Feb. 1940)

Fletcher Hanks

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Women Write About Comics

Seriously, A Lot

Great site that talks about women's involvement in the would of comics.

Check it out!

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She Has No Head! - No, It's Not Equal - Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

So I’ve been sitting on this post for nearly two years. Why you ask?  Well, because I knew it would cause a ****storm, as any comics column that’s remotely controversial does, especially it seems when written by a woman. I had also decided, partway through writing She Has No Head! that I was going to …

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 Am Not Sad, I Am Not Sick is now available as a PDF for digital download.

"I Am Not Sad, I Am Not Sick: An Autobio Zine" debuted at Twin Cities Zinefest 2013. It is a 15-page black-and-white zine based on mental and emotional struggles of the author.

Here it is on tumblr. It’s $3 (or pay-what-you-want on Gumroad!). I’ve cleaned it up quite a bit and added grey tones to give the drawings a bit more depth. It’s a very personal piece and I hope you’ll consider picking it up.

This zine does include references to self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Gumroad

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Thanks for supporting me!

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some people need to understand this shit

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Shortpacked!: Genderless

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Batman #327, September 1980, cover by  Joe Kubert