Comics Anonymous

Okay, I’ll admit it; I’m a bad feminist. I am more interested in reading a great comic book that seeing a fifty/ fifty gender split and I positively detest quotas like this being shoehorned into comics or any other medium. I am however, ‘a real woman’ and I will also admit to getting pissed off with gravity defying boobs, skimpy battle costumes and the like. Maybe I’m a tough comic fan to please? I don’t think so. I think if creators put the right amount of effort into their characters and stories and let those elements be the focus instead of cramming in as many underrepresented minorities or cleavage shots as they can; we’d see better books, more often. Thankfully, Image’s recently relaunched Glory does just that. (more…)