Category Archives: Fandom & Meta

FEMINIST HULK on Twitter

Most awesome thing EVAR. HULK SMASH PATRIARCHY. feministhulk 11:00 AM Jun 20th: “HULK STOP FOR QUICK SNACK WHILE SMASHING GENDER BINARY. ACCIDENTALLY SPILL HUMMUS ON TINY PURPLE SHORTS.” *dies*

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How not to respond to criticisms of race and gender

June 5, 2010: DC Nation panel at Heroes Con 2010 Ian Settler, DC Senior Story Editor A serious topic came up about how characters who are minorities who happened to be legacy characters like Ryan Choi are killed off so … Continue reading

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Melting pots, “hardcore”, and fanfic

I am still processing the conclusion to “War of the Supermen” and will likely have thinky thoughts later. I can’t get over the final message being “peace will be achieved through assimilation”, right after telling us that the near-genocide of … Continue reading

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Supergirl Dress Up

I did not just spend 5 minutes clicking through ALL the options on this Supergirl Dress-Up flash game (warning: music and *lots* of ads). Nor this one for Superpower Girl. Nope, not me!

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Powerful response to DC’s murder of Lian Harper

DC* killed off the daughter of Red Arrow & Cheshire in Justice League: Cry For Justice #6-7 just to give her father angst. He will be getting a miniseries called Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal out of it. Lian … Continue reading

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Updated link to Lorendiac’s Timeline listing of Supergirl/Superwomen

I’ve updated the links page with the recently updated Timeline of First and Final Appearances of Every Supergirl, Superwoman, Etc. (5th Draft). In the author’s words, “It has many new listings added, reflecting the fact that in the last few … Continue reading

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Adam West and Julie Newmar at Central Canada Comic-Con

I’ll be attending the Central Canada Comic-Con (formerly Manitoba Comic-Con) in a couple weeks. It’s being held Oct 30-Nov 1 and features two big Batman guests: Adam West (Batman) and Julie Newmar (Catwoman) For real. Also appearing are Peter Mayhew … Continue reading

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Supergirl illustration by Al Gordon

Here is a lovely Supergirl illustration that was sent in to me by artist Al Gordon, creator of WildStar and writer/artist on numerous titles including Spider Woman, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, JLA, and Legion of Super-Heroes among others. I really like … Continue reading

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Comics by Women

Writers, Pencillers, Inkers, Colourists: Comics by Women: July 1st, 2009 Comics by Women: July 8th, 2009 Comics by Women: July 15th, 2009 – yay, Louise Simonson is back! (World of Warcraft) Comics by Women: July 22nd, 2009 Comics by Women: … Continue reading

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Link Round-up

STYLE ICON: Billie Jean makes me want to see the movie again. Helen Slater was incredibly hot/awesome as Billie Jean. The threat of sexual violence was just too uncomfortable for me when I saw it on TV long ago. I … Continue reading

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Toronto Star Supergirl Story

Here is the Toronto Star article about Supergirl for which I was interviewed last week. I only got a couple quotes, and the first is an offhand comment I made that totally fails the weasel word test (“People say”) *grin* … Continue reading

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Greg Rucka on Superman and New Krypton

Greg Rucka on Superman, from The Rucka Debrief June 2009: For Superman to be super he’s gotta be the best of our potential. And if you put him amidst 999,999 other men and women [i.e. the surviving Kryptonians] who can … Continue reading

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Why Supergirl’s shorts aren’t “patriarchal” (I do not think that word means what you think it means)

When I talked with the Toronto Star yesterday about the upcoming article about Supergirl’s shorts (look for it this Saturday!), there were a few points that came up that I wasn’t as articulate about as I’d have liked. Here’s one … Continue reading

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I heard everybody’s talking about these red shorts…

And I have to say, it’s about time! I’m so glad Newsarama has

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SciFi/Fantasy Fans of Colour: Not Unicorns After All

The wild unicorn herd check in AKA Global Represent thread hit my fanlist today. 17 pages of comments in only two days. Awesome :) Let’s make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read … Continue reading

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Supergirl_Fans Livejournal Community Deleted

Huh, supergirl_fans has been deleted :( I wondered what happened. They haven’t migrated to Dreamwidth either that I can see.

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A Rainy Monday

This site has been recommended at Rainy Monday, a LJ comm which highlights anime, manga, and video game character shrines of worth. The animanga fan community is full of amazingly talented web designers who are incredibly encouraging and generous in … Continue reading

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On Peter David’s recent race-fail

links for context I just heard about Peter David pulling a “Barack Obama was elected president therefore white people don’t have to deal with race anymore. And anyway it’s all black people’s fault because they’re so angry and scary and … Continue reading

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Helen Slater at Manitoba Comic-Con

I just got back from the first day of Manitoba Comic-Con where Helen Slater was signing autographs and had a panel. It was so cool to meet her! I didn’t have a camera with me, which was a shame, but … Continue reading

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Supergirl Series Creative Teams

I’ve compiled a list of the many writers and artists (pencillers) that have worked on the Supergirl title to-date (plus the S/B issues for good measure). This series is famous for its revolving door of creative teams, but I never … Continue reading

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Supergirl Gallery: Draw Power Girl Meme

I’ve completed adding images to the Draw Power Girl Meme album in the Supergirl Gallery. There were a few images from the original list on LiveJournal that didn’t make the cut, that I didn’t think were worth including, but I … Continue reading

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Carnivals

It’s been a rough couple of weeks at work for me, so I’m a bit late on posting these. The 8th PoC SF Carnival was posted last Friday: Intra-Racial Dialogue; What Lies Between Us. As Willow describes it, This 8th … Continue reading

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People of Colour and Feminist SF Carnivals

The 7th POC carnival is at Willow’s Seeking Avalon this time (Willow started the carnival, so that’s pretty nifty). I missed #6, but it is linked along with all past carnivals at the homepage for People of Colour in SF … Continue reading

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Help the writers, don’t buy DVDs?

This is old news, but I haven’t been paying close attention to the writers’ strike lately. During the strike everybody’s been saying that they’re watching a lot of DVDs instead. But maybe we shouldn’t be buying new DVD sets because … Continue reading

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Carnivals (some good news!)

The 5th People of Colour in Scifi & Fantasy Blog Carnival is up. The 18th Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction & Fantasy is up, in three parts: Part I: Women, Gaming, and You! Part II: These Things We Love, And … Continue reading

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LiveJournal implements more censorship, is sold to dubious Russian company

Gaaaah. 1) LiveJournal’s got a new “feature” which allows people to snitch on their neighbours by flagging their posts as having “Adult Content” (which LiveJournal has stated they will never actually *define*). 2) From Russia, With No Love (on Stewardess’s … Continue reading

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Control Trolls

Bellatrys has an excellent post up which is relevant to what’s currently happening on When Fangirls Attack with the misogynist trolls: The Proverbs 26 Troll, or, Towards a Grand Unified Semi-Coherent Theory of Comment Management (Proverbs 26:11 goes something like … Continue reading

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Supergirl sculpture

This morning I came across this gorgeous original sculpture of Kara by David James: More angles can be seen at David James’ website: David’s Sculpture and Model Site under Sculpts (the images are here and here in case the site … Continue reading

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Link roundup: New Supergirl Creative Team, etc.

Huh, I was wondering about the sudden flurry of comments on my last two posts. Then I smiled, checked my incoming links (WordPress’s Dashboard rocks), and noted the WFA link *grin* I haven’t been reading any superhero comics sites in … Continue reading

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More about FanLib

The fun continues… Chris Williams Respond to Our Questions about FanLib on Henry Jenkins’ site. Summary: he’s every bit the tool folks thought. In response to the above interview, bayleaf comments, “Oh, lord, i think in the FanLib equation fans … Continue reading

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The Draw Supergirl Meme

Remember the Draw Batgirl Meme? It’s good, check it out ^_^ Now there’s a Draw Supergirl Meme that I somehow, unbelievably, missed until today: lots of incredibly cool reinterpretations of Supergirl that will warm your heart (and some that are … Continue reading

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DC talks to Women

Eddie Berganza, editor of Supergirl/JLA/Teen Titans/etc, is asking women to read Supergirl in this month’s DC Nation. I’m shocked. I really am. DC as a company cares very little for its female readers. They don’t acknowledge us as a viable … Continue reading

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Supergirl essays

I’ve added links to two excellent essays entitled Supergirl: 1960 to 1980 and Supergirl: 1980 to Now Supergirl and the Ballad of American Youth published on exterminatingangel.com. I really enjoyed these essays which examine the way Supergirl has evolved over … Continue reading

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Cross-promotion

Super. Girl. has updated its “Pop” section with Supergirl stamps and this year’s Halloween costumes. Check it out!

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Dude, do you even understand how the Internet works?!

Some guy named James Meeley who got linked by When Fangirls Attack is throwing a fit and demanding that they not link to him, apparently because he got banned from one of their sites and he now hates their guts … Continue reading

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Supersuit

I’m going to indulge my inner geek for a bit and talk about my ideas of what makes up the perfect supersuit. Every Super fan has their own ideas about how the suit should look. The blue’s got to be … Continue reading

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Sep 5

I want to be Kalinara when I grow up: My So-Called Supergirl. Short version: the Supergirl series is showing significant signs of improvement with issue 9 (others agree), and the story has potential to tell an interesting story about a … Continue reading

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Supergirl Pixel Dolls

The things you find on the internet… Supergirl Pixel Doll Maker Supergirl & Power Girl Micro Heroes See also Other Supergirls: Alternative Costumes, Future Supergirls, and Super Children and Supergirl Timeline More Supergirl Pixel Dolls These two are from Pixiepalace

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