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This week's DC Nation article is a plea on behalf of our my favourite Kryptonian.
Supergirl needs women!
As a gesture, it's heartening. At the very least, they have decided that I'm part of a demographic they *want* to court, and have given effort (and page space!) towards doing this!
We've finally got confirmation on the thought processes behind Power Boy's character design, and I can't say I don't approve. And the example sketch they give us, with Kara distracted in battle by the power of his butt... Okay, I'm amused!
(Perhaps his "costume window" is in the wrong place?)
On the other hand? There are valid reasons I'm not buying this book. It's great that the problems with the art were discussed, but they haven't actually been *fixed*. I am honestly glad they choose to make Kara's story less simple this time around. Execution-wise, however, it's been a disaster.
I'm not sorry to hear Ian Churchill is off the title, of course, but I'm not won over by Ale Garza, either. (He's the one who drew the Supergirl story in the Infinite Christmas special.) In his rendition, that costume is especially painful to my brain.
So thank you for the invitation, Mr. Beganza, but I'll have to politely decline.
I would love to buy a Supergirl title. Sadly, judging by what has come so far, it won't be this one.
Supergirl needs women!
As a gesture, it's heartening. At the very least, they have decided that I'm part of a demographic they *want* to court, and have given effort (and page space!) towards doing this!
We've finally got confirmation on the thought processes behind Power Boy's character design, and I can't say I don't approve. And the example sketch they give us, with Kara distracted in battle by the power of his butt... Okay, I'm amused!
(Perhaps his "costume window" is in the wrong place?)
On the other hand? There are valid reasons I'm not buying this book. It's great that the problems with the art were discussed, but they haven't actually been *fixed*. I am honestly glad they choose to make Kara's story less simple this time around. Execution-wise, however, it's been a disaster.
I'm not sorry to hear Ian Churchill is off the title, of course, but I'm not won over by Ale Garza, either. (He's the one who drew the Supergirl story in the Infinite Christmas special.) In his rendition, that costume is especially painful to my brain.
So thank you for the invitation, Mr. Beganza, but I'll have to politely decline.
I would love to buy a Supergirl title. Sadly, judging by what has come so far, it won't be this one.
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I mean, I like Supergirl, sometimes, in theory, when she is hanging out and being super-gay with Cassie, and when they play her up as kind of an Anya-like character, who just doesn't quite get it, this being-human-and-interacting thing. But something about this just seems...um. Condescending, I guess.
It's a step in the right direction, at least, as it reaches out to the female readership and acknowledges that readership as a significant one which ought to be considered, but...the tone just kind of rubs me the wrong way, a little.
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You're not wrong. It took me a couple minutes after reading it to decide how I felt about it. I eventually was swayed by the fact that it *is* a step in the right direction, and that they (at least) claim have considered what women might want in the title.
I don't think it's *more* condescending than the other articles DC writes for its fanbase... not a *difficult* condition, I know. (And, yeah, the "So, ladies" at the end doesn't play that well.) But they do seem to be trying to court the female audience and, even if they're not exactly going about it as well as they could, it leaves me hopeful.
(Optimism == one of my biggest character weaknesses.)