Blind Genre Item: Betty Bitchface
Jan 31What popular recurring gal was spotted on the streets of Park City, Utah (aka Sundance Central) sporting the magical pairing of gigantic sunglasses and major bitchface? In fact, we first noticed her because she looked so, well…stabby. Only after pondering her pissed-off visage for a few moments did we figure out who she was.
Not that we’re blaming Betty for looking so crabby-stabby — after all, Park City is way too cold for the sexy tanks she regularly sported on the show that made her famous, and the strike has brought her much-anticipated new project to a screeching halt.
In fact, we just can’t help but love Betty, bitchface and all. And many fans of that aforementioned geek-cult show feel the same way — so much so that the show’s leading lady was rumored to be more than a little green with envy when Betty was around, stealing the spotlight. We’re putting all of our hope and faith into the strike ending soon, so Betty’s new project — which sounds like a total geekgasm — has a chance to get off the ground. Maybe that will cheer her up.
Cory to fanboys – bite me
Jan 29Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing editor, speculation fantasy author, and all-around wet blanket, had another poke at comics today as he wrote up the second trade collection of Warren Ellis’ Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. – as ever, it got my goat. I continue to disagree with the term Underwear Perverts as any sort of useful comment on comics, particularly when the user hasn’t, you know, barely reads superhero comics. Warren has earned it – Cory, not so much. He calls out an X-men-sure-do-come-back-to-life-a-lot” joke as deft lampooning. So…
Anyhow, I debated (and I’m still debating) commenting directly to the man himself, using Boing Boing’s new comments system, only to find about a half dozen people have, at this writing, beaten me to the punch.
“Enough already please, Cory. You’re beginning to sound like the guy who thinks “We are the Knights Who Say ‘Ni!'” is still a good line.”
Cory’s response?
“Deal with it.”
Rightly so. There is no dealing with Cory directly, obviously, so we should deal with it. The dude has his bespectacled, self-styled Intelligentsiac head up his ass. There will be no moving him – better to focus our efforts on promoting the best in superhero comics to everyone besides him.
Superhero comics have an important place in popular culture, and reflect the era in which they’re printed – it includes post-modern deconstruction, but it should never exclude the roots of the form. Yes, some of it is bad. A lot of it is awesome. The bad is no reason to whitewash the awesome, just to appear hip and clever.
I’m still going to tell him that X-men joke is stale, though.
Vader, ya dig?
Jan 29This has apparently been floating around a while, but I just saw it, and man is it funny.
More Trek Season Four
Jan 28I’m excited by this news–IDW will be publishing more Star Trek Year Four comics. I read a few of the early issues, before deciding to wait for the trade, and it’s good stuff. Solid classic Trek with surprisingly good art.
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