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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Harley Quinn As Superman

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:15 pm, February 22nd, 2012


Well here’s something I never thought I’d see. Harley Quinn dressed up as Superman. You can thank Eric Stettmeier of the Toyriffic blog for swapping Harley into all sorts of personas. You’ll also see  her as Wonder Woman, a Stormtrooper, Bob Ross and more. Yes, I said Bob Ross. Now check out what else we saw today.

  • In yesterday’s Things We Saw, we linked to Kelly Thompson’s wonderful piece about objectification of women vs. men in comic books. Today, Gail Simone adds a few thoughts of her own on the subject.
  • Dig out your scrunchies! The Hunger Games cast is going to do a U.S mall tour to promote the film starting March 3 in L.A. (via Deadline)
  • An amusing, yet truthful look at Game of Thrones and illegal downloading by the Oatmeal.

A recap from the BBC of the UK’s Being Human, ala the Real World. Season 4 premieres this Saturday on BBC America!

  • 10 members of Congress pose for NOH8 marriage equality photos. (via Huffington Post)
  • Robin Hobb’s new sci-fi short story tackles the subject of female genital mutilation as a fad. Hobb, who also goes by the name Megan Lindholm, is up for a Nebular Award for the story titled Cut. (via Wired)
  • Meredith Zeitlin writes a new YA novel called Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters. There’s an interview with the author as well as a book giveaway. “I think ‘dumbing down’ is the biggest problem I’ve seen in books for kids—of any age,” said Zeitlin. “Good, clean, thoughtful writing is just as important as a great idea, in my opinion. Maybe that’s because I’m the daughter of an English teacher, but it makes me nuts when I read books that just…aren’t well-written.” (via Women on Writing)

Mad Men’s Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) as illustrated by the lovely Amanda Conner. (via Keane On Comics)

  • Actor Colin Donnell has been cast as Merlyn in the CW Green Arrow pilot. (via MTV)
  • Meanwhile, Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes/Gilmore Girls fame has landed a role in Frank Darabont’s L.A. Noir drama series for TNT. (via Deadline)
  • And finally today, read the truth about books bound in human skin…if you dare! Mwuahahahaha! (via io9)

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  • Kath

    I love Conner’s art, but what did she do to Ms Hendricks’ waist?!

    Oh, The Oatmeal comic? Truthful? No, it’s about one guy being so impatient that he pirates a show. DVD’s out in a few months (if that), it ain’t gonna hurt to wait.

  • http://twitter.com/JinxyBlastwave Jinxy Blastwave

    Impatient?  The first episode aired on April 17, 2011.  The Blu-Ray comes out on March 6, 2012.  If you could wait that long for something you’re dying to see, you have the patience of a saint.  I completely sympathized with the angel and devil on the shoulders.  You want to see the creators get paid for doing such good work, but paying for cable, and then paying for premium channels on top of that?  That’s not something I can comfortably make happen right this second.  I’m not defending pirating, it’s wrong obviously… but that didn’t stop me.  And it won’t stop me next season either. 

    I am the scourge of HBO… I stalk the interwebs with a keen eye and a deft clicking finger… and all their work has been for naught! MWAHAHA!!!  Or, you know, put out the DVD faster or stick it on iTunes.  Might’ve made a few sales that way.

  • Kath

    If you’ve waited since April, you can wait a few more weeks, no?

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. The article below makes that very good point, adding this: 
    The single least-attractive attribute of many of the people who download content illegally is their smug sense of entitlement.”

    http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that-torrents-the-crown/ 

  • Kath

    I don’t think HBO – to use the example in the comic – have helped themselves at all by waiting so long (although I understand it’s par for the course for them), and if you haven’t got HBO or access to a channel with HBO programmes (e.g. Sky Atlantic in the UK), then you’re gonna be waiting until 2014 (at a guess) for Season 2 to release in a home-watchable form, so a few weeks ain’t gonna matter!

    I think a number of the broadcasters have also been re-running it in preparation for Season 2, so… yeah.

    I think it’s a bad comic, but then again – The Oatmeal seems to be all about being a d*ck.

  • Frodo Baggins

    “what did she do to Ms Hendricks’ waist?!”

    Stylized it, just like her long neck, miniscule nose, and slanted eyes.

  • Anonymous

    The oatmeal comic was certainly familiar to me, and I suspect to a lot of others. To the extent that anyone has a right to see these shows (and we don’t, of course,) this points out a huge disservice that the premium cable channels do to their potential paying customers. I’m sure I would spend more money on tv if I could buy on demand thru iTunes or amazon, rather than waiting to get disks from Netflix, a service I already pay for (or as many fans do, download for free).

    But asides from the finances, your dismissive response underestimates the value of fandom and community as part of the experience of watching shows like ‘game of thrones’. If you wait for the DVDs, and watch 3, 6, 9 months later (as I often find myself doing), you are not only spoiled for a lot of the plot, but are also relegated to reading the fan response and discussion after the fact – never participating. Moral high ground, but a lot less fun than getting to be part of a fan community.

  • http://twitter.com/JinxyBlastwave Jinxy Blastwave

     Right but… what if, instead of having to wait until 2014 (btw, you are the most patient person ever in the ever of ever, and I salute you for that) you could wait until moments after it airs, and download it for free?  Once you have that knowledge, it becomes so  hard to ignore it.  I don’t believe I’m entitled to it, but it’s right there for the taking!  It’s staring right at me, Ray.  It’s Game of Thrones, it’s not like it’s hard to find.  You just click, and poof there it is.  Waiting until 2014 to trek over to Best Buy is really the best option?  The world doesn’t work that way anymore, and pretending otherwise isn’t doing any entertainment companies any good.  I would pay 4 or 5 bucks to have a GoT episode legitimately, but does it work like that? No it doesn’t.  So where does that leave us?  Stealing. 

  • Adam Whitley

    Just because you pirate something before it’s released doesn’t mean you can’t just buy the bluray or something later. I’ve pirated things I’ve later purchased all the time.

  • E S

    I dance a little on the inside every time you guys mention Robin Hobb.

  • Kath

    I’m not patient, I watched it when it aired on Sky Atlantic.

    That said, I’m not agreeing that HBO are in the “right” (as it were) to leave it so long until release. I’m saying, instead, that if you’ve waited almost a year to watch a show, waiting a few more weeks until it releases on some form of home media isn’t going to be much of a deal.

    Those of us who watch it as it broadcasts have to wait a week for each episode, and then a year until the next series. It’s not like we get it all in one go, either.

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