lulz WHAT. The whole DC vs. Marvel thing has always seemed so strange to me, except then I fell in love with Diana and saw that in discussions of women in comics, people totally forget she exists, and THEN I GOT TRIBAL. And it's totally not rational, but when people are like THOR WILL BE A LADY WARRIOR, HOW GROUNDBREAKING, I do kind of lose my mind. And I honestly do not know how to counter that, or stop filtering comics/movie discussions through that lens.
It would make more sense to me if more of the conversation focused on what the companies ACTUALLY DO, instead of cherry picking stuff that you like about your particular preferred publisher/studio? And in that regard, it seems like Vertigo ought to at least be part of the discussion, if only to illustrate how sometimes the simplistic comparison of Blockbuster Superhero Movies to Blockbuster Superhero Movies is incomplete. Like iZombie shouldn't be an argument to dodge the issue of the lack of female leads in superhero-related properties, or an an "answer" to Agent Carter, but neither is it totally irrelevant. It's just not a simple comparison all the time, sorry if that makes Tumblr's life harder!
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Date: 2014-08-05 03:41 am (UTC)lulz WHAT. The whole DC vs. Marvel thing has always seemed so strange to me, except then I fell in love with Diana and saw that in discussions of women in comics, people totally forget she exists, and THEN I GOT TRIBAL. And it's totally not rational, but when people are like THOR WILL BE A LADY WARRIOR, HOW GROUNDBREAKING, I do kind of lose my mind. And I honestly do not know how to counter that, or stop filtering comics/movie discussions through that lens.
It would make more sense to me if more of the conversation focused on what the companies ACTUALLY DO, instead of cherry picking stuff that you like about your particular preferred publisher/studio? And in that regard, it seems like Vertigo ought to at least be part of the discussion, if only to illustrate how sometimes the simplistic comparison of Blockbuster Superhero Movies to Blockbuster Superhero Movies is incomplete. Like iZombie shouldn't be an argument to dodge the issue of the lack of female leads in superhero-related properties, or an an "answer" to Agent Carter, but neither is it totally irrelevant. It's just not a simple comparison all the time, sorry if that makes Tumblr's life harder!