Karen ([identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] odditycollector 2009-11-14 10:47 am (UTC)

Re: PS:

Triplicate girl looked Eurasian to me in several panels. It didn't ping to me that she was strictly white.
That's a tendency I noticed about a lot Barry Kitson's (white) women early into figuring out what needed to be changed about who. And, it's really interesting that she pinged as not necessarily white to you because (iana artist; thing I have realized doing this:) comic art is actually fairly simple, so just changing the *default* assumption from white does a lot of my work for me. If you'd have read it in the original, I'd be very surprised if you had seen her as other than a white girl(s). I have never heard of anyone bringing up the possibility, even among posters "defending" the "increased diversity" of this lsh version. (see: "...and Atom Girl has started to look increasingly Asian!")

So I changed nothing, but if people read her as Eurasian now, then hey. It means I've *won*.

If she had pinged for me as white, or more if I was reading the original, my snark at the 'poor white girl can't fit in with the other white girls anyone' would have been tremendous and extremely acidic.
"Every race was brand new to us!"
It is a *good thing* Star Boy happened to be flying by in the background during that shot, because there is only so much "Diversity Is Great!"ing you can do sitting in a clubhouse with thirty people you need the uniforms to tell apart.

Feel free to promote it. It's about as good an argument as I can make, but it's more useful if more people see it.

I can put them in a zipfile for you, if you like. Probably tomorrow, though. It is lateearly.

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