Ed, This post has links to my other Wonder Woman writing online (as well as to reviews and interviews about the book.)
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Type: Posts; User: Noah Berlatsky
Ed, This post has links to my other Wonder Woman writing online (as well as to reviews and interviews about the book.)
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I've seen Full Metal Jacket multiple times.
Just because someone has a different interpretation of a film doesn't mean they haven't seen it.
Not sure how you can categorize Ms. Marvel as a breath of fresh air without thinking through the ways it's different. If it's fresh in comparison to other things, those other things have to be stale,...
"I believe that if the story requires violence like ALL superhero stories do and you don't like it then don't read superhero stories then. "
So, this seems like a pretty confused response to the...
Nope; just rewatching the Adam West Batman. His parents are in fact shot (he refers to it in a brief, parodic, quite mean-spirited aside in the first episode.)
In other words, you're saying the problem isn't that there's change, but that the change is specifically that the characters are no longer white men.
I would say that that's correct, and that it's...
I have heard people complain that Johnny and Sue being different races is a problem. I find that...really problematic. Adopted siblings aren't somehow vastly, uniquely different from biological...
Well, but as I say in the piece, he talked about Wonder Woman in terms of cross-identification. I really don't think it's much of a leap to see WW as a Mary Sue of Marston, which means she's his...
No; you'd have a Wonder Woman who was a woman, not a man. Trans women aren't men, they're women.
Part of why it's appealing is that it would emphasize that point, which is still a source of...
Sure he was. Feminism can mean quite a range of things. Marston's beliefs certainly aren't mainstream feminist beliefs today, but his belief that women were powerful, that they should be in positions...
The last time he appears though is in #28, where he again appears as Dr. Poison.
Actually I mention the fact that they are all villains. I point out that Marston does not link their villainy to...