Category Archives: Rants

DC Execs Want Everyone To Read Their Books: Just Not Women, Children, Teens, or Anyone Over 34

Posted on June 22, 2011 · 8 Comments · Leave a Comment 

DC tells retailers their target audience are men age 18 to 34, all the while claiming to want new readers and to welcome “everyone” in. After everything DC’s done to alienate me this month, this may be the last straw. Continue reading →

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My Barbara Gordon Rant

Posted on June 6, 2011 · 2 Comments · Leave a Comment 

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to choose between Barbara Gordon as Batgirl and computer hacker extraordinaire Oracle, mentor to the next generation of Gotham’s female heroes. In a perfect world, DC would never have allowed such a misogynistic … Continue reading →

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Reblogged: DC’s bullshit “commitment to diversity”

Posted on June 2, 2011 · 2 Comments · Leave a Comment 

Emma of Girls Read Comics Too speaks on a subject important to me: DC’s continued failure to fix its diversity problem. What’s the point of a relaunch if they don’t make major strides on this? Continue reading →

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Where’s my Supergirl Statue?

Posted on April 30, 2011 · No Comments · Leave a Comment 

The Cover Girls of the DCU Supergirl Statue is #2 in the Top 10 Toy rankings for March, which is great. Too bad I’ve yet to receive mine! Continue reading →

Posted in Merchandise, Rants

How not to respond to criticisms of race and gender

Posted on June 9, 2010 · 10 Comments · Leave a Comment 

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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War of the Supermen #1-3

Posted on May 25, 2010 · 2 Comments · Leave a Comment 

This miniseries should have been called “The Big Giant Status Quo Reset”, or, “Everyone and everything you liked about New Krypton gets destroyed, but Luthor lives.” I’ve moved past my denial about them killing Alura and the (soon to be) … Continue reading →

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All I have to say about “Brightest Day”

Posted on May 14, 2010 · 7 Comments · Leave a Comment 

Fuck you Geoff Johns and all your racist pals at DC who spit out shit like this: Black Manta, White Power Rings, replacing heroes of colour with dead white guys, and vilifying Somali pirates as white child slavers/rapists* (* Which … Continue reading →

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Say it ain’t so! Gail Simone leaves Wonder Woman

Posted on March 9, 2010 · 3 Comments · Leave a Comment 

*sob* Per DCU Blog and elsewhere on When Fangirls Attack (scroll waaaay down). What’s the point in buying it any more? Writer changes rarely go well for me, no matter how enthusiastic the outgoing writer is (they’re ALWAYS enthusiastic unless … Continue reading →

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