Science Friction

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Emma Caulfield on Season 4 Ep 15 of Leverage! Yo go, Anya!

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Female comic heroes featured in breast cancer detection ads

A new ad campaign in Mozambique by Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer (ALCC) is using Wonder Woman, Catwoman, She-Hulk and Storm to promote self-examinations for breast cancer prevention.

The ad copy states:

Nobody’s immune to breast cancer. When we talk about breast cancer there are no women or super women. Everybody has to do self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk to you doctor.

The images are quite striking. The faces of the characters are only partially seen, but the characters are easy identifiable. And while we often see women feeling or touching their breasts n comics, the art here is not sexual or exploitative and has almost a solemn feel to it.

I’d like to see these ads in other counties; it’s a very compelling concept.

Update: Here’s a link to the artist’s DA page.

Wonder Woman and others after the cut.

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I gotta be honest though man... using comicbook women is tricky because of how blatantly (gratuitously, sexist-ly) sexualized they often are. Although I respect and support the message of the campaign, I wonder if there was a way to distance it from comics' unfortunate history with minimizing women.

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The Beginning Of My GeekTV Concordance

I've always meant to start an enormous graph or chart of sorts, perhaps just a massive leatherbound tome in Book Antiqua on bible paper, with print so small you need a magnifying glass and a beard to interpret it, of my favorite actors in science fiction/fantasy TV, and where else they appear.

Gotta start somewhere.

Anyway, to my delight, this guy:

A.K.A. The Brown Widow from The Venture Bros. cartoon, is voiced by this guy:

And if you don't know who that is, you don't deserve to have me spell it out for you.

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Beats the shit out of the Chuck Norris one.

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So... I don't know why this would be useful. Or interesting, really. But apparently some fans of Stargate SG-1 have taken it upon themselves to chart out what recurring races/factions appear in which episodes of SG-1... over all ten seasons.

In its defense... colors!

Via io9.