michaelmay.blogspot.com - 29 days ago
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Here's what else I've been up to online lately... Five for Friday I didn't participate in last weekend's Five for Friday, which was about Halloween costumes (a topic I suck at), but the weekend before that we were instructed to Name Five Comic Characters You'd Want As Your Friend . I thought ...
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michaelmay.blogspot.com 10/15/2009 — Here's what else I've been up to online lately. Five for Friday Last Friday's assignment was to Name Five Of Your Favorite Hats Or Other Pieces Of Headgear Worn By a Comic Character. My answers were: 1. Bill the Cat's Billy and the Boinger's wig 2. Dr. Midnight's mask 3. Kroenen's mask ...
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michaelmay.blogspot.com 9/5/2009 — What Are You Reading? I haven't been linking to my contributions to Robot 6's What Are You Reading? feature. I don't know if anyone cares about it, but for the sake of completeness I think I'll start including it. Last weekend I talked a little about Wolverine: Prodigal Son and BPRD, Volume ...
Wonder Woman: Rise of The Olympian - Where It Went Wrong
weeklycrisis.com 7/31/2009 — I mentioned that I was interested in the trade of this but, luckily for me, a friend of mind gave me his issues for free. I say lucky for two reasons - 1) I got them for free and 2) it is a pretty bad story, which is why I got them for free. I actually wanted to like this story, I really did. ...
Black Lantern Wonder Woman?
weeklycrisis.com 8/17/2009 — DC released their full November solicits today (we'll have a full post on those later this week) and I was compelled to write a post on the above image and solicit from the Blackest Night Series 4 toys (emphasis mine). BLACKEST NIGHT SERIES 4 ACTION FIGURES DC Direct continues to roll out ...
The Wonder Woman That Wasn't
occasionalsuperheroine.blogspot.com 1/15/2009 — Did DC turn down an all-ages Wonder Woman comic by Darwyn Cooke? "This year J. Bone and myself pitched an all-ages Wonder Woman book aimed at young female readers. In other words, I wanted to give them at least 12 issues of a Wonder Woman book that ...
Even the Title Screams Hopelessness
ragnell.blogspot.com 9/28/2009 — Several of my so-called friends this evening took it upon themselves to remind me that Trina Robbins once wrote Wonder Woman. To be fair, they were thinking of a charming miniseries she helped illustrate, but the first thing that came to my mind upon ...
Show Them The Money
occasionalsuperheroine.blogspot.com 1/9/2009 — This is a post inspired by this post and this post and this post and this post . When good comics starring female superheroes -- especially written by females -- come out, why don't they get bigger numbers? Why are critically acclaimed books like ...
Why All The Wonder Woman Hate?
io9.com 6/8/2009 — With Transformers starlet Megan Fox calling her "lame" and the most successful writer in the American comic industry joking that she's "a walking STD farm," it's time to ask: Why doesn't Wonder Woman get the respect she deserves?
Fox made her lazy ...
Only One Can Wear the Venus Girdle, part 2
hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com 2/17/2009 — So this is my second longish post on Wonder Woman. In the last one I talked about Charles Moulton, Wonder Womans’ creator, and why I thought it was very difficult for other writers to put together decent stories using his character. Basically, I ...
Only One Can Wear the Venus Girdle, part 3
hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com 2/18/2009 — Here and here I argued that Wonder Woman is a the result of a particular idiosyncratic, fetishistic vision. Charles Moulton was more like R. Crumb than he was like Jerry Siegel or Lee/Ditko. As a result, Wonder Woman as icon is essentially a decades ...