#dc is trash

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I forgot to share this earlier - this is in Batman: Dark Knight #28, which came out this week

drawing is hard u guys

and using the select tools in photoshop instead of flipping the whole panel was apparently even harder

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It's difficult for me to look at the all-female roster on the new Joker's Daughter book and not feel like DC is wedging a bunch of women onto a really bad book purposefully

Joker's Daughter is the biggest strawman feminist character I've ever seen in fiction, her entire ~origin story~ is this bizarre grimdark mess of trivialized self-harm and "not wanting to be pretty", she wears a shirt that says "Daddy's GRRRL" and she has the worst character design I've seen in a while

and Ann Nocenti wrote it with this whole plot of her ~freeing the poor women~ from their horrible male slave-driver community in the Gotham sewers

and I guess adding all those things together = feminism??!?!??!

please shitcan this character goddamn

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lookin at the new comic releases online (I don't even know if we got our shipment today because of the snow hmm) 

and man

have we really stooped to marketing Harley Quinn with how she and Ivy are "going to rescue a bunch of cute puppies and kitties! "

like

are you trying to market to children? are you trying to infantilize the character? or do you just think female comic readers will only be attracted to your tits and ass derby outfit redux of their old-time favorite if you lure them in with fluffy baby animals? oh, and just the extra dash of pinkish(?) blood, because let's not forget, Harley is this cute Hot Topic-chic lady now

I'm probably just being extra annoyed because I have an impending sinus headache but like

come on

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so Ann Nocenti's writing Catwoman, right

(she writes Katana and is responsible for Joker's Daughter, who is now the Catwoman villain, and her writing is generally the worst thing I've ever seen, without exaggeration)

but man

you know just how bad that shit is

I flipped through the latest issue and Catwoman is calling Duela pathetic

because her weakness is her love of her cat that Selena's holding hostage

Catwoman is ridiculing someone for caring about a cat

I hate comics and I've given up hope on the world

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Marvel definitely has their faults (what is this "must read every tie-in of Infinity to remotely understand it" shit) but man

call me back when DC is doing some slightly over bare-minimum "we gotta be politically correct" stuff, when they understand that it's not just a bullshit sales quota to be met and let their creatives have some leeway

like introducing four solo female titles next year, one of which gives a teenage Pakistani-American girl a well known hero's moniker

or like.. Marvel recently introduced a dude of color as bi in one of their best (imo) ongoing series

the last time I remember a queer poc being introduced/written believably and passionately with DC was with Renee Montoya in Gotham Central and OOPS she's kind of NOT IN THE NEW 52 AT ALL

but her ex-girlfriend is

oops wait but she's Bruce Wayne's cousin now and she can't get married 

huff

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Ps I totally appreciate the new writer being an apparently gay dude who thinks Batwoman’s marriage is unnecessary because we can’t get married everywhere in the US and don’t know what State that Gotham is in anyway???

Thanks guy you really get it wow

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Admittedly I probably take it fairly personally

But the new Batwoman really pales in comparison to the old creative team's work and I'm kind of hurt by how they think tying everything in with Batman somehow makes it better.

Who needs beautifully written lesbian characters when you can have ~grimdark~ Batman tie-ins, right

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lol they're tying Batwoman in to Batman: Zero Year

color me immediately disinterested

though tbh I was immediately disinterested when Batman showed up