Don't expect Marvel/DC to target female supercomic readers anytime soon:
the mandate from their corporate owners is to be for boys
[especially Marvel, since Disney has "Princess" dominated and bought Marvel to help itself with boys]
[DC low-balls its girl-readership numbers, afraid of female fans driving away the boys?] [more]
[meanwhile at non-Marvel/DC, gatekeepers against girls, kids, women, queer, color, are falling] [31 July 02012]
Thoughts and condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the Aurora movie theater mass shooting
[nightmares stalk us even on a fun night at a Batman movie] [22 July 02012]
MoCCA Suffers Setback With Loss Of Physical Space [terrible news even if the space was tiny]
[highly critical analysis at the 10-year point: State of the Art Museum: What MoCCA Has Accomplished and Failed to Accomplish After Ten Years]
[fascinating meme: expensive Festival tables yet "accessible" exhibits mean starving artists subsidize the mainstream]
[annual Fest never fails to refuel Neilalien's gas tank] [17 July 02012]
Check it out: Simpsons Super Spectacular #15 includes great Batton Lash and Frank Brunner Plasmo The Mystic story [much Dr. Strange evoked complete with Shazana-esque villainess and Howard The Duck] [6 July 02012]
The New York Post looks for Steve Ditko on the eve of the new Amazing Spider-Man movie and finds a doodling crank
[the comments defend Mr. Ditko] [5 July 02012]
Super-Dreams of an Alternate World Order: 'The Amazing Spider-Man' and the Modern Comic Book Movie
[the long road of comics/superheroes from innocent-seducing outsiders to the movie westerns of our time, a glut of ever-sooner reboots, 600 Avengers-tie-in products at Walmart, and witheringly corporate, status-quo and white-male]
[any of the the article's good stuff suffocates under all the snob hand-wringing though: despite media consolidation and defensive fans, it rings false that critics who voice skepticism about a comic book movie don't have "forums" when there's the internet, tons of bad reviews
for Green Lantern, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ghost Rider,
Elektra, etc., and an intellectual's wet-dream of a negative review for near-universally-beloved The Avengers
ran in the New York Times] [4 July 02012]
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