Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Miss (Piggy) Phoenix

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:17 pm, December 8th, 2011

Now here’s a Marvel female character we can get behind. Lar deSouza depicts Miss Piggy in her alter ego, Miss Phoenix! Hit the jump for more stuff we found online today!

Because of recent criticisms the company has been receiving in regards to its female characters and solo titles, Comics Alliance did an interview with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and Editor Jeanine Schaefer, to help clear up a bit on confusion. They make some good comments but also tell us that Sue Storm and Storm don’t have mojo. Worth a read.
Social Justice League writes an essay on how to be a fan of problematic things. This.
Looking for some female lead titles? Amber Unmasked has rounded up a bunch that aren’t from DC or Marvel.

“The Alamo Drafthouse’s art house, Mondo, which previously developed its signature prints for movies like Sucker Punch and Cowboys and Aliens, is releasing a series of six posters from artist Kevin Tong based on the tales that inspired the hit series,” ABC’s Once Upon A Time. Rapunzel is the first and subsequent characters like Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin will follow. (via Entertainment Weekly)

In yesterday’s Things We Saw, we highlighted THR’s list Women In Entertainment Power 100. Today, they bring us 11 Women to Watch For Next Year and none other than geek gal extraordinaire Felicia Day is on the list!
Hold on to your butts, the San Diego city council has okayed the expansion of the San Diego Convention Center for Comic-Con. (via The Beat)
Adventures of a Comic Book Girl writes about why the concept of a Mary Sue is sexist and how Batman figures into things. A seriously good read.

Batman with balloons never get old. You’ve seen Mike Maihack’s version, now here’s one via Perpetual Kid.

The Bully vs the Philospophy Nerd. READ THIS NOW.
Lionsgate is attempting to remake American Psycho. Patrick Bateman will not be happy. (via Deadline)

Kath

I never really cared much for Miss Piggy, but as Phoenix? I could totally get behind it…

And no, it’s not just the wide hips and the red hair.
http://www.facebook.com/1shewolf JoAnna Luffman

Oh thank God. Comic-Con is so claustrophobic, I quit attending. I may have to think about it for the year after next (next year is D*C in Atlanta).
http://www.facebook.com/people/Haley-Joy-Porter/1346561883 Haley Joy Porter

You know i’m all for a bigger convention center but as a resident of San Diego and a high school student in a public school, there is just no money for it. My school barely has enough money for paper and my history teacher was fired a month ago in the middle of the semester because there is no money to pay him. So yeah, a bigger convention center would be great but San Diego just doesn’t have the money.
http://twitter.com/ThunderBeetle Abby Hernandez

Interesting…I’ve always thought of Superman as the ultimate Mary Sue…

Batman never really crossed my mind, but now…wow.
http://profiles.google.com/amberlovescomics Elizabeth-Amber Delaney

Sue Storm and Storm don’t have mojo? Damn. For shame. Sue was kicking serious ass and acting like a formidable leader in Hickman’s run. If she’s boring now, that’s their fault in editorial for staffing choices.
Anonymous

D*Con is the best! The Mary Sue should add it to their convention tour (if they have one).
John Wao

I wonder how long before Felicia Day goes from actress to head writer on a major show to show runner to director to producer to studio head?
Frodo Baggins

Uh uh uh, you didn’t say the magic word.
Frodo Baggins

That Sue post is recklessly simplified. She acts like the whole idea of Mary Sues came about because guys were jealous of female characters being presented positively. Never mind that the author who first codified the trope was female, the creator of the Mary Sue litmus test was female, most of the top google hits for articles on the phenomenon are by women, analogous critiques of the Romance Novel genre were largely leveled by women, and the most frequently used example of the trope is Wesley Crusher.

She cites the popular impression that most fanfic writers are women and the lag before Mary’s male counterpart was acknowledged as evidence that work by/for female authors receives more scrutiny and derision, and thus female characters end up unfairly maligned. She seems to completely disregard the possibility that, since the fanfic community was mostly women, it was mostly female members of that community making the critiques.

Did she consider that maybe a lot of women didn’t like such flat, perfect, unrelatable characters? That it can be construed as benevolent sexism? That it can rob female characters of their humanity by rendering them perfect little artifacts to be admired?

I don’t deny that the term has recently come to be too broadly applied to the point where it no longer seems meaningful (see also: “ironic”), but expressing her frustration with the concept in such monomaniacal terms is neither useful nor insightful. Surely there can be a middle ground between “Every character that’s too perfect is a Mary Sue, and thus bad,” and “Mary Sues are never bad, because some good characters get labeled as such.”

Also, Spiderman? Seriously?
Adam Whitley

I dunno if giving any of the members of the fantastic four their own solo series would be a good idea that books strength is the fact that they are a super powered family. I wonder how the storm origin story sold because I bought it in hardcover and it ruled.
Jennifer Ward

*slow clap*
http://twitter.com/beezageeza Beeza Gozer

Miss Piggy + Phoenix Force = COSMIC BACON.