Spidey + capecomic history sideblog.
Posts mostly about 616, Spider-Verse, Raimi, and TSSM.
Otto Octavius and Norman Osborn should tear each other apart for my amusement
The Archie comic book characters became serious fashion icons, but it all happened through a series of accidents. For images, links
Really fun overview on how the comic coincided with recent-ish history like the development of the "teenager" category, gender roles, and Comics Code censorship.
readcomicsonline getting nuked is bad for all the obvious reasons but also its insane considering those artists/writers confessions that they get sent pages with the readcomicsonline banner at the bottom bc dc and marvel dont have any kind of internal reference or register for most shit. shooting themselves in the dick
Wow! Amazing how clearly--in print quality and text styling--this was published in the 1910s, yet the character's style of dress feels so iconically 1960s. I wonder what clothes and hairstyles were supposed to be represented here?
This fascinated me too !! She would occasionally be depicted in more contemporary fashion and/or comment on clothes, and from what I found it seems like Mary is just supposed to be wearing an old, shabby dress that doesn’t fit her anymore and the extremely high hem is just part of the comic’s distinctive art style
Here’s an awesome one I found where she jokingly disparages the “slit skirts” that were trendy for women at the time and showed off the ankles in favor of just continuing to show full leg LOL
And this one where she dresses in drag to do feminist voter fraud which I just think is neat
Wow! Amazing how clearly--in print quality and text styling--this was published in the 1910s, yet the character's style of dress feels so iconically 1960s. I wonder what clothes and hairstyles were supposed to be represented here?
there's a universe out there where norman osborn is a successful wicked witch-themed drag performer. notably harry still has all the same issues though.
"dc is darker" "marvel has more fantasy" "dc is mystery and marvel is sci fi - " all of you are wrong. dc comics is when a man has black hair and blue eyes. marvel comics is when a man has blonde hair and blue eyes.
There's a thing 1950s comics do sometimes where the villain is drawn much more realistically than the hero. This is of course because the villain is often an ethnic caricature, and you need more detail to be properly bigoted, but it's not always the ones you'd expect. I've bumped into more than one example where the hero's Adventures of Tintin looking ass ends up fighting a grotesquely hyperreal Irishman.
Mharryjane: they certainly are standing next to each other
unstoppable abandonment issues meet immovable commitment issues--on the dance floor!
harry osborn / mj watson. they certainly are standing next to each other. unstoppable abandonment issues meet immovable commitment issues--
full tracklist under cut:
Jumpstarted - Jukebox the Ghost (what goes up must come down / take my advice and run while you still can)
New Toy - Lene Lovich (I want a new toy / but nothing too demanding)
Shut Up And Dance - Walk The Moon (I said you're holding back / she said shut up and dance with me)
Drive My Car - The Beatles (baby you can drive my car / and maybe I'll love you)
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats (you can act real rude and totally removed / and I can act like an imbecile)
Love the One You're With - Crosby, Stills and Nash (if you can't be with the one you love, honey / love the one you're with)
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations (to you I'm a toy but I could be the boy you adore / if you'd just let me know)
Fat Man And Dancing Girl - Suzanne Vega (where the megaphone man met the girl with her hand that's covering most of her mouth)
Gumboots - Paul Simon (you don't feel you could love me but I feel you could)
Tongues and Teeth - The Crane Wives (I will only wring you dry of everything / but if you're fine with that / you can be mine like that)
Washing Machine Heart - Mitski (even when I close my eyes / I know who you pretend I am)
Too Close - Sir Chloe (party boy you took too much / it's time for you to leave)
Grace Kelly - Mika (why don't you like me / why don't you like me / without making me try)
Hot N Cold - Katy Perry (someone call the doctor / got a case of love bipolar)
No Leverage/No Pleasure - The Scary Jokes (can you feel me knawing away at your heart)
She's Got Issues - The Offspring (I don't know why your whole life is a chore / just do me a favor and check your baggage at the door)
Love, Me Normally - Will Wood (I want you to love the way they so seamlessly / like-a-dream-fully / so beautifully, oh-so-dutifully / jam that square peg in the round hole in their hearts!)
Jimmy Tomorrow - The Waitresses (we were all wearing falsies / weren't we?)
Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants (I've got a weak heart / and I don't get around how you get around)
Think For Yourself - The Beatles (you're telling all those lies / about the good things that we can have if we close our eyes)
Werewolf - Fiona Apple (I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head / but then again I was waving around an open wound)
It Ain't Me Babe - Nancy Sinatra (I'm not the one you want babe, I will only let you down)
The second best way to enjoy a superhero adaptation is to be just familiar enough with the source material that you understand the characters and themes being referenced but not so familiar that you spend the entire time fuming about all of the stupid unnecessary changes. The best way to enjoy a superhero adaptation is to be ten years old.
