February 2012
44 posts
The Wonder Woman Animated Movie in 2009
I felt that the 2009 animated Wonder Woman film was so strong in so many ways. I have many friends who aren’t comic book fans and don’t like superhero movies; most of them are hardcore feminist / critical race theorists. They all loved this film. Keri Russell does a great job with Diana’s voice, making her fierce and unyielding. Virginia Madsen’s Hippolyta is wise but...
This! - The Runaway Girls
For me, all the fierce ladies of the Runaways series are exactly what not-quite-exactly-women-yet in superhero comics should be. It’s hard to choose just one moment from the series that encapsulates the heroism and badassery of all the Runaway girls, but the first issue of Volume 2 is a good taste.
The first thing you see when the Runaways return in Volume 2 is the ladies kicking ass...
Dutta, SHUT UP. "Nuff Said
This panel speaks for itself. One of the best things John Bryne did was having She-Hulk join the FF. In Fantastic Four Issue #284, the FF goes to the microverse and She-Hulk gets brainwashed into believing she’s a meek, fearful slave. She snaps out of it and clocks evil overlord Dutta. The great thing is that no dude saves her or even brings her to her senses. And really, “Dutta,...
YJ: "Homefront"
From the ending of the episode Homefront. Artemis, the most recent member of the team (at that point) is the last person standing after Robin, Aqualad, Miss Martian and Superboy have been captured by a pair of murderous androids.
With nothing but one arrow left, Artemis fools the androids by pretending to surrender, only to fire off her last arrow, striking an EMP device and rendering her...
Dutta, SHUT UP. "nuff Said.
This panel speak for itself. She Hulk has spent the entire issue brainwashed into thinking she’s some fearful meek slave of evil overlord Dutta. She comes to her senses in the most awesome way possible. No dude saved her or even talked her back to herself. She just shook it off and then BLAM “Dutta, Shut up.”
This! moment for Cassandra "Cassie" Lang
Cassie Lang is a member of the Young Avengers, a team of teenagers who have “either some significance to the Avengers themselves or to Avengers history” (http://marvel.com/universe/Young_Avengers#ixzz1mfby4feV) (warning, spoilers for early issues of Young Avengers Vol. 1 at the link). Cassie’s connection is her father, Scott Lang – he was the second Ant-Man. Scott died...
This!moment for Cissie King-Jones
This is one of the reasons why Arrowette was my favourite member in YJ (despite the length of her presence on the team). She’s not a sidekick to an established superhero nor does she have any connection to the big players (and frankly the only “established” superhero she’s related to is more of a thorn in their sides than anything) but here she is facing down the...
Mera and Aquagirl in Brightest Day 20
Brightest Day’s brightest moments involved the Aqua-family. Brightest Day 20 had Mera holding back the ocean (among other awesomeness) and Lorena, the second Aquagirl, generally kicking ass.
Selina does Roma
”When in Rome is one of my favorite Catwoman stories ever. images of Selina riding a vespa thru the streets of Rome and stopping in front of a window displaying her (future) leather Catsuit always make me smile, but my favorite page sequence in the story is when the handsome assasin Christopher Castillo breaks into her hotel room and end up on the floor with Selina on top of him wrapped in...
How can you NOT love a character like Mia Dearden?
Mia had a lot of great moments, but these two really stood out for me.
(Green Arrow #4) She has excellent taste in cartoons. PPG anyone?
(Green Arrow #45) Even after learning she’s HIV positive, this is all that she wants to do. Help.
And this is why you should love Mia f*cking Dearden.
That and she’s pretty funny too.
Jane Foster In Thor the Mighty Avenger
You asked for some more Marvel stuff:
The girl’s don’t have to be bad-ass to have a THIS! moment chalked up. Throughout “Thor the Mighty Avenger” Jane Foster is portrayed as a fairly “traditional girlfriend” to the hero Thor. She doesn’t smack anyone down, or foil any villainy, or do anything “superheroic”. She does’nt make any...
One of the most feminist moments in Gail Simone's...
I wish I had copuld find a pic of the actual panel. During Gail Simone’s first story arc, The Circle (Wonder Woman vol. 3, Issue 15), Wonder Woman is going to gods of various pantheons to help her find a way to Themyscira. And then something profoundly feminist happens.
From Amazon Archives:
Finally the Amazon Princess visits, Kane Miohai, God of the Sky and Heavens. He tells her he...
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From No Man’s Land Volume 1. Written by Devin Grayson, pencils by Dale Eaglesham
One of the many This! moments from BoP
A quick confession. I love (almost) all of Gail Simone’s writing and I can pin point why with a few words. Birds of Prey.
I mean, a team made up of kick ass women, who love and support each other, who can save the world when the other guys can’t and who have made even Big Barda a member? How could you not love them?
So when Black Canary leaves her team in Gotham you can bet your mega...
Supergirl's Apartment
This single image of Kara before heading out to fight in the Final Crisis said more to me about her character than entire stories have. She loves to paint! She plays guitar! She’s creative and a bit introverted! She loves her cat! I had one of those moments that happen in real life where you see someone from across the room and fall for them. I fell in love with Supergirl because of...
Barbara Gordon in One Panel
When I first heard the theme of this site, this is the scene that immediately jumped into my mind, from Birds of Prey #8,written by Chuck Dixon.
Oracle is my favorite superhero of all time, and even though this is just one panel, and she’s not doing anything terribly exciting like beating up villains or anything, this is the scene that I think, more than any other, captures exactly what...
Women in comics should be Donna Troy
Donna Troy, essentially the kid sister of Wonder Woman, but in some ways so much more in touch with regular people.
Donna is a warrior. She’s strong and powerful but also intensely compassionate, caring, and a best friend and counselor to nearly everybody. As the only female member of the original Teen Titans, she’s generally been treated as equal as the other boys - except slightly...
Wonder Woman fights Medusa, blinds herself, kicks...
In Wonder Woman: Eyes of the Gorgon (written by one of my favorite comic book writers, Greg Rucka), Diana is challenged to a battle with Medusa that she is honorably bound to complete. I love how true to Wonder Woman’s mythological roots this story was, and I LOVE how the situation’s handled.
Diana doesn’t try to get out of it. She knows what she is bound to do, and she...
THIS! moment: Mia Dearden
What’s not to love about this moment? A 15-year-old girl wearing big baggy pants and an oversized t-shirt is expressing her love for the Powerpuff Girls, a show that allows young ladies to see themselves as superheroes, too.
Mia says, “‘Bout time they made something that tells little girls they don’t have to be cute or nicey-nice domestic. They can make just as much of...
January 2012
41 posts
