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salinea?) asked about sequentialcrack recently. It kind of fell by the wayside, as we couldn't find enough recers to keep it going. Is there interest in the comm? I'd be willing to revive it, if people (quite a few) were interested. Women Write About Comics
From the FAQ:
What’s this all about?
Women Write About Comics is a blog carnival; basically a giant blog crossover. In a blog carnival, a large group of disparate bloggers, get together to share their views on a specific topic. Our goal here is to forge new connections among women (and girls!) who love comics, and to make our voices heard.
How does this work?
The organizers, with input from participants, pick a specific topic and set posting dates. Participants post and link back to Women Write About Comics, which will maintain a masterlist of posts.
Who can participate?
Everyone. Established bloggers, pros, and fans of all stripes are welcome to participate. We ask, however, that you do so in good faith, honoring the topic and respecting other participants.
What can I post? Where can I post it?
Your post can be a blog entry, a video, a linkspam, a review, or pretty much anything you like, so long as it relates to our topic. We will link to entries hosted on all platforms, so long as they’re public. Please tag Tumblr and Twitter posts with “#womenoncomics.” The organizers will be tracking this tag, to make sure we don’t miss any entries.
When does posting begin?
*Dates to be determined. Once a topic is chosen, we will move forward with setting dates for the carnival, at which point this entry will be edited.
Can I help out?
Sure! We’d love to have your help advertising the carnival, or, when the time comes, collecting posts for our masterlist.
You can contact the maintainer in chief at themegsbenedict[at]gmail[dot]com.
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ani_bester) that kijikun sent me a couple of years back, and I am legit upset by this. The tranquility of Central Park's beloved petting zoo was disturbed today, by a new masked menace, calling himself The Ringmaster. The whip-wielding baddy descended on the park mid-morning, with the intention of turning the normally friendly ponies, goats, ducks and sheep, to his own dastardly purposes. The three classes of school children visiting the zoo, were grateful for the swift intervention by the Avengers. Captain America and Iron Man--
valtyr.neotama asked for my (comics) Flash ships, but I have only one (WALLY/LINDA FOREVER, OK?). So we're going with DCAU instead. ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
notgreenorblue. It's been an age since I finished and posted a fic, so we'll see how this goes--if I get a handle on it, I might pick up another one. Maybe Misty/Collen. <3 I think I want to write about how the clones affect society long term. And I want particularly to write about 355's legacy. So I'm kind of turning it over, thinking about structure and what the damn story is. Somehow Y has become one of my eternal fandoms, like Star Trek and Buffy. I'll always come back to you baby. notgreenorblue, a ficathon dedicated to celebrating characters of color in comics.On the face of it, both heroes are about equally dated. They both seem like examples of the kind of big, brassy jingoism that made sense in World War II, and doesn't really "click" now. And they're both very much "gee golly"-style Golden Age heroes, who are best suited to fight villains whose heads are red or giant, or both. Unlike Superman, who's been updated a lot, and Batman, whose roots are more noir/pulp, Cap and Wonder Woman are indelibly products of the Big One.
But Captain America already has a huge new movie, which flaunts the World War II setting in a kind of Private Ryan-style war movie with supervillains. And meanwhile, David E. Kelley shopped around a Wonder Woman TV pilot to every network, with no takers. (Although Kelley insists the show isn't dead, and he's going to try again.) And Entertainment Weekly had a huge feature a couple months ago, in which luminaries including would-be Wonder Woman director Joss Whedon talked about the difficulties bringing the princess to the screen — with Whedon saying that we need more wonder women, but not necessarily more Wonder Woman.
Why is Captain America ruling our screens and not Wonder Woman?Image via JD Hancock on Flickr.
So why is one World War II hero bigger than ever, while the other is languishing in biker-chick-redesign land in the comics? It's not just because Steve Rogers is a dude. It has to do with how easy they each are to bring out of the era that spawned them.
