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Can't stand the woman but at the end of the day a baby is a blessing.
There is something not right about this story. I don't believe that she was only 32 weeks pregnant. I think the baby was probably born nearer it's due date and probably at a heavier weight. Many posters on here predicted that she would make up some premature birth drama to hide the fact of the baby's true paternity and to keep up intrest in her flagging career.
All that private pregnancy bo$£&?ks was laughable. She just wanted to keep the bump hidden for an exclusive with the Sun. A preganant body is beautiful but posing in stockings, pouting,legs akimbo is just downright tacky. Put it away love, we've seen it all before!
Feel sorry for this poor little mite , Saddled with a stupid name and an abomination of a mother.
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A Disney fan creates a stylish form of cosplay which doesn't run afoul of Disney's parks rules! Disney theme parks offer a wide variety of activities on their annual calendar: marathons, pin trading, D23 and Disneyana shows… and Dapper Day. What's "Dapper Day"? What movie did he appear in? Can I buy vinyl figures? Is […]
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Pantone, best known among designers for their standardized color matching system, has announced the top ten colors for men's and women's fashion for Spring 2016! The list: PANTONE 13-1520 Rose Quartz PANTONE 16-1548 Peach Echo PANTONE 15-3919 Serenity PANTONE 19-4049 Snorkel Blue PANTONE 12-0752 Buttercup PANTONE 13-4810 Limpet Shell PANTONE 16-3905 Lilac Gray PANTONE 17-1564 Fiesta […]
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Not too many comics or graphic novel make Page Six, the NY Posts's venerable gossip page, but the book party the other night for Marisa Acocella Marchetto's new graphic novel Ann Tenna (Knopf) did just that! It was also written up on the WSJ society page – an actual event! The hubbub was about Marchetto's […]
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At SDCC '15 I talked with the Burnside Batgirl crew about their creative origins, how the look that launched a thousand cosplays came to be, how to handle creative criticism, and their earliest con experiences.
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Can a fashion retailer take a photograph of a celebrity, print it on a t-shirt and sell it without the celebrity's approval? Yes, but sometimes no – not when the retailer has previously gone out of its way to draw a connection between its products and that celebrity, in this case Robyn Fenty, aka Rihanna. How did this begin?
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If you're into cosplay, Saturday night is made for fighting the lines to get into the annual masquerade contest. Here are a few backstage pics from the show, along with a few other shots.
If you attended any of the panels I moderated, you know that my themes this year were community and personal connection. The above candid of what appear to be a mother and son is probably my favorite scene of the show.
As you know, guys have a proclivity toward taking pictures of cosplaying women in revealing garb, with little regard for who these women are as people. A pic I didn't get: a young woman in an artful Poison Ivy costume who explained her costume to the photographer with a rather revealing statement: "I'd rather wear this every day than be slinging coffee."
Captain America stopped by lunch on Saturday afternoon, and judging by the detail on the costume he wasn't a cosplayer but the real Captain America.
The good folks at Comic-Con let me join the lucky few Jimmy Olsens and Peter Parkers who get to go backstage the shoot posed photos after each entry performs their routine. Before the show, however, cosplayers who aren't part of the contest can have their photos taken as well. Harley Quinn dazzled the photographers with an array of poses …
… and afterward she handed out business cards – turns out she's a talented seamstress, designer and costume fabricator. This is the case more often than one might guess — cosplay is often a marketing tool as much as a form of self-expression, an aspect of the culture that your typical "babes of cosplay" photo essay tends to miss.
The daughter of Batman and Poison Ivy enchants the photographers. Kids open the annual cosplay masquerade contest.
Princess Anna of Arendelle. This is where being in the photographer area was rather illustrative vis a vis the real culture of cosplay. The cosplayers weren't told to strike a sexy pose — the repeated requests were for them to show the fabric details, construction, and in many cases, lighting and other tech that didn't show up all that well on my iPhone under bright lights.
Fabric on display – cosplayers are asked to pose front, back, side to side, in angles highlighting key details, and finally, in whatever pose happens to be their favorite.
This looked great, but when the head came off it looked like the costume had almost killed the wearer. These things are hot and heavy.
The Transformers Bumblebee cosplay was a technological marvel to behold – and so tall that it couldn't fit in the photographer staging area. As a result, we could photograph only the folks who made it work.
Minecraft 3D.
This costume was clever and funny – the Barbie doll was a fantastic touch. After the photographers called out for poses highlighting particular aspects of the design, one called out, "Show us your teeth!" — to which the cosplayer deadpanned: "I don't have interesting teeth."
There were a number of other costumes worth highlighting, but like most of the other folks I know here, I'm beat.
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There were quite a few announcements the NYCC Special Edition Marvel panel. We learned of the fall launch of a new line of $1 comics featuring women of Marvel, saw new pages from the upcoming Lando Calrissian limited series, and were told of a new post-Secret Wars Iron Man series from Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez.
But perhaps the most interesting moment of the panel was when Bendis, speaking on the dais with Marguerite Bennett (A-Force) and Charles Soule (Inhumans: Attilan Rising), said that Secret Wars was "never planned to be a reboot" to the Marvel Universe, and that "no continuity would be damaged or reversed." Bendis explained that Secret Wars was always meant to be part of on-going continuity.
Bennett received loud applause when speaking to a fan during the Q & A portion of the panel who asked her what advice she had for women and girls interested in the comics industry. "Don't be scared," Bennett replied, "I've had one of the worst weeks of my life with hate mail and it doesn't matter." Bennet said she would "prove through her work, I'm not going anywhere."
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Artist Alex Maleev joins Soule for the upcoming Lando limited series. Soule said the series would have "a lot of twists and turns" but that it would be the charming, "smarmy" Lando we all know and love, as Con-exclusive images were shown on the big screen.
"New Armor, new villains," promised Bendis of his upcoming Invincible Iron Man series, scheduled for release following Secret Wars. He promised the series' first issue would have a "whopper of a last page," and reveal the identity of Tony Stark's biological parents. He also confirmed that, despite internet rumor, it was indeed Stark inside the Iron Man suit. Though he wouldn't confirm how many limbs Stark still had following the events of Secret Wars.
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I kinda wish they would reboot. Filling that 10-15 year span of time that all the stories take place in with more and more stuff is getting ridiculous. Can you imagine spending the last 15 years having everything that has happened to Peter Parker happen to you?
so in the end the rumors of a "new 52″ style reboot are just that……rumors. after months of stringing everyone along, the truth comes out. i read somewhere that EIC alonzo confirmed that the reboot rumors were rumors (tho' i did not read a direct quote from alonzo himself). still, it looks like there will be some major changes here and there and some questions remain unanswered about the f.f. (tho' it looks like ben grimm and johnny storm will still be around), and the majority of x-men characters. also, considering that there will be no reboot it's pretty much a safe bet that somewhere down the line steve rogers will become captain america again (hopefully sam wilson will reprise his role as falcon and doesn't end up getting killed off) and thor odinson will again become the one and only thor. both of these events will probably take place a few months before their movies hit the theaters, so there's plenty of time to explore the stories of the replacement characters, but as usual, the originals eventually come back. so it would seem that the "all-new" , "all-different" marvel universe will consist of lots of character shuffling, minor changes to some of the character history, and that the bulk of continuity will remain intact. pretty much leaving the door open to bringing back the status quo of the marvel universe (and any of it's characters) whenever marvel (or the fans) want that to happen.
I suspect you'll have to wait a bit longer in Steve Rogers' case. I have no spoilers, only the hope that Civil War follows its source.
I can see Captain American getting killed to have Falcon take his place. With the inevitable resurrection of Steve Rogers occurring in the Infinity Gauntlet.
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not sure where the civil war story is going 'cause I haven't been following it (just the main secret wars title, but I haven't started reading those yet , I'm thinking i'll probably start reading them later this week) but it seems that there are multiple steve rogers' running around battleworld as there are multiple hulks, thors, spider-men, etc., as shown by all the different books that have different versions of the same characters in them, who knows which version will end in the main stream books once they start up again (my guess would be that some of the multiple versions will be squished into one new version of each character, tho' I wouldn't bet money on that, or maybe the "616" versions of the multi-verse will triumph over all the other versions and survive into the new marvel universe), and a lot of these "warzone" and "battleworld" books seem to be a whole slew of "what if's" that will have no bearing on the marvel universe once the secret wars are over. don't know if you've seen the promo sneak peak art that shows what some of the characters will look like once secret wars is over that's been released over the past few days , but in one of the promos it shows steve rogers in his "commander rogers" uniform, still aged , but alive and well. while I don't expect everything to be the same when the main stream marvel universe returns, I have a feeling that much of the marvel universe will pick up where it left off before secret wars. I guess we'll see. hey, I'm just happy to see that it's not a "new 52″ type reboot. if it was , I was gonna have to stop my almost fifty year span of collecting marvel comics, which would have left me more time to pursue my other hobbies, ballroom dancing, yodeling, and competitive toe clipping. :)
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Girl in Dior has been getting great press worldwide for its depiction of one of the most influential premiere collections in fashion history, but there are a couple of classic superhero connections as well.
Sixty-eight year old fashion spoiler alert!
As Girl in Dior aptly depicts, the designer's debut collection split the fashion world. For some, the longer length of the skirts in Christian Dior's first collection in 1947 was a step backward, but what ultimately won the day was a sense that Dior had tapped into deeper, more vital currents in the post-war West. Besides changing the course of fashion for a generation and, along the way, mentoring his successor in innovation, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior inspired a description that immediately became synonymous with his designs and, over time, any revolutionary break from existing style: the New Look.
Girl in Dior beautifully depicts the entry of this phrase into the fashion lexicon. After noting the presence of legendary Harper's Bazaar editor Carmel Snow in the front row, author Annie Goetzinger lavishly recreates the moment when, following the show, Snow uttered the phrase that solidified Dior's place in fashion history.
If you're reading this site, though, chances are that you're already thinking that the New Look sounds mighty familiar.
It was, of course, the name famously — and not coincidentally — given to the modernization of Batman's appearance in 1964.
But that wasn't the first time Dior's New Look appeared in Batman comics – there's also a reference contemporaneous with Dior's early work.
Dior's New Look garnered a lot of press in the U.S., from the revolutionary collections in the late '40s to the Dior-mania of the subsequent decade and more. For our purposes, two articles in particular stand out: a January 1948 New York Times piece headlined "New Look to Stay, Expert Asserts" and Life Magazine's coverage of Dior's latest "New Look" collection in February 1948.
To see how such stories influenced comics, we can turn to the June 1948 of Batman, which re-tells Batman's origin and includes his epic encounter with his father's murderer, Joe Chill. However, that's not the only story in this book, which deserves a digital restoration in full on Comixology (hint, hint).
The landmark Batman #47 actually opens with a Catwoman story called "Fashions in Crime." The tale begins with Catwoman breaking out of jail, only to hear herself mocked by other women as she walks down the street while wearing her civilian clothes:
"Hmmph! She's wearing a short skirt! She doesn't have the NEW LOOK!"
As the women go on to ridicule her for not reading the latest fashion magazines, Catwoman makes the painful realization that "since [she's] been in prison, the style has changed." But this also gives her an entrepreneurial idea: she creates her own fashion magazine, Damsel, along with a Damsel fashion TV program.
Months later Damsel is the hottest media empire in the fashion world, and the scene shifts to an older socialite, who, wearing an elaborate hat, notes that Catwoman-turned-Damsel-publisher-Madame-Moderne's latest designer favorite is "a gown by Millie Karnalee." Karnalee's name seems odd, but at the time it would have made sense as a pun on the popular American designer Hattie Carnegie, the subject of the January 1948 New York Times piece. Carnegie, besides, ahem, adapting (i.e. copying) Dior's "New Look" at a lower price for the U.S. market, also made a point of condemning the predilection of younger women not to wear hats.
And despite a nifty later scene wear Batman cracks the case thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion illustration technique, that's where the story begins to diverge from the world of Girl in Dior.
Apparently the writers weren't aware of the free samples and ample cashflow that would have been accrued to the publisher of the world's hottest fashion magazine, because Catwoman proceeds to use her newfound high-society access to steal clothes and rob women at an exclusive fashion show. Not surprisingly, the scene at Catwoman's show is rather different from the more modest Parisian runways of the time — in true 1940s Batman fashion, it features "giant needles … scissors … thimbles … and a huge sewing machine!"
Girl in Dior might not end with a fight on oversized designer props, but it is nonetheless a most enlightening read. I could go on, but I'll leave that to an actual reviewer – ceci n'est pas une critique de Jeune fille en Dior.
Great read and fascinating connecting of dots here–thanks!
Great stuff, Jeff — especially that Catwoman catch!
"The style has changed."
Very fanny, jeff, I enjoy it!
Thanks, all, for the good words – and especially to Anne Goetzinger for the wonderful book!
Which, by the way, I strongly recommend. Beauty, design, business, personal meaning – there's real depth here in what is the graphic novel answer to the best fashion documentaries and biographical films, such as Valentino: The Last Emperor and Bonello's Saint Laurent. There's also a nice synchronicity here with the recent release of Dior and I, the doc about Raf Simons' Dior debut.
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Nerd girl fashion is popular…and stylish. Her Universe, the fashion line started by Ashley Eckstein, has been setting the trend for much of this and now they've teamed with Hot Topic to offer a line of Avengers outfits. Rather than cybernetic body armor and purple pants it heads more towards fishnets and sleeveless dresses. You can pre order it here.
The line was designed by Amy Beth Christenson and Andrew MacLaine who were the winners of the Her Universe "Geek Couture" Fashion Show at last year's Comic-Con. So it's a real cinderella story here.
The line includes:
Captain America Halter Dress, $59.50
Thor Sailor Dress, $59.50
Stark Industries Bomber Jacket, $54.50
Black Widow Dress, $44.50
Black Widow Belted Jacket, $64.50
Loki Halter Dress, $59.50
Hot Topic is offering a full line of Avengers gear. In fact while I was writing this piece I discovered these Marvel combat boots. So many cool things, so little closet space.
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Mary Blair's artwork takes center stage in this new line of skirts and dresses from Pinup Girl Clothing.
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We've a week's holiday from school coming up and will be travelling around the country visiting family, and this means we've several multi-hour journeys ahead of us. Journeys are my favourite time for enjoying stories and our bags always include:
Favourite audiobooks include the How to train your Dragon series, voiced by David "former Dr Who" Tennant, enriched with great music and sound effects, David Walliams reading his own stories (not surprisingly, he does really funny voices), and Tony "Baldrick" Robinson's Theseus and Odysseus. New for our next journey will be The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell (thanks to @HawthornPressUK for the recommendation).
As we subscribe to several magazines and comics at home, reading choices for the train are made from what is available in the station newsagents so that the kids get to try something they wouldn't have at home. Often they'll chose a wildlife, craft or archaeology magazine. Technically these may be marketed for adults, but they are often much more engaging than those aimed at kids as they have more content, fewer adverts and less "plastic crap" on the front (a bonus from my point of view).
When looking for activity books to take on journeys my first port of call is always the online shops of museums and art galleries; generally speaking these are good sources of slightly more unusual or quirky activity books. This holiday I'll be taking DoodleFlip Dress-Up by Hennie Haworth, Stickyscapes London by Robert Samuel Hanson, and also Stickyscapes Paris by Malika Favre.
DoodleFlip Dress-Up is a mix and match, lift the flap fashion colouring-in book. There's lot to choose from; maybe your creation will have the legs of a ballerina, the floaty dress of a hippy, the accessories of a pirate and the helmet of an astronaut (all figures are female). Prompts suggest ideas for filling several blank flaps with your own designs.
Whilst advertised as 3+, I think the style of illustration will appeal to much older children (say 8+); the designs are quite detailed and relatively small and also look more sophisticated than many colouring-in illustrations aimed at young children.
The two Stickyscapes books are great fun. They are large concertina style fold out cityscapes of the two cities, and come with lots of reusable stickers. One side of each fold-out shows the "real and present-day" city, whilst the other side depicts an "imaginary and historical" version of the city.
There's lots to learn and explore in both sticker books. A key to each scene is included so you can identify landmarks around the city, and the stickers (a mixture of present-day, historical and fictional people, forms of transport and items you might find on the cities' streets) come with explanatory notes, making this much more than "just" a sticker book.
I have just one complaint about these books: The population of these cities is far more diverse than the stickers would have you believe.
In the London book, there are perhaps three non-white people represented (out of a total of 33 modern day inhabitants and visitors), or to put it another way 9% of the sticker book modern day population is probably not white. According to the 2011 census just over 40% of Londoners identified themselves as non-white. Comparable figures are not easily obtainable for the French capital, but I suspect the demographics of this city are not accurately represented by the stickers in the Paris book, which could be seen to suggest a 100% white population.
Of course these books are just a bit of fun, and some will say I'm making too much of the hard numbers. But I'd disagree. Why wouldn't we want the illustrations of these great cities to reflect their rich, mixed populations more accurately?
Alas we won't be visiting either London or Paris during our travels, but at least we'll be able to travel there in our imaginations, suitably decked out in the highest of fashion as designed by my kids! What book or story resources do you pack when you're going on a long journey?
Disclosure: I received the three activity books from the publisher.
The best family audiobook we've listened to is The Quigleys by Simon Mason. The kids love it. The grown ups love it. It doesn't seem to be on audible anymore.
Thanks for the audiobook recommendation Penni, I'll look into it.
coucou zoe !
I confirm your speculations are right !! Paris is of course not a white city at all but a mixed city with different people and different cultures and this is precisely what we enjoy in living in it…. I feel quite upset to see the diversity is missing but the dog poo is not !! isn't it biased ? we do not have so much dog poo around ! fortunatly !!!
I love the doodle dress book ! Children always enjoy "cadavres exquis", and if you add colours ! what could be better ?!
enjoy your holidays !
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Fandom-inspired fashion certainly isn't going anywhere; gone are the days of unisex, potato-sack tees as companies like WeLoveFine, Hot Topic and other retailers capitalize on the craze. The latest launch from Hot Topic is one of the most fandom-specific ones I've seen. It actually all revolves around a single character: Harley Quinn. And we have some to give away!
Some of these offerings are basically straight-up cosplay fodder, like the Harley suspender leggings and dress:
Others aim at slightly more subtle/everyday approach, like an argyle cardigan or mesh-sleeve top:
The collaboration from Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Hot Topic, dubbed Harleen, is available now at a fairly reasonable price point (mostly the $20 – $30 range).
Also, if you're one of those quizzie types, they've launched an app to hook you up with your ideal comics-related companion. While I'm not 100% convinced that the Joker is the right man for me, it's only a few questions long and comes with a coupon for the gear at the end.
PLUS: Giveaway! You can win a Joker and Harley Quinn Mesh Girls Pullover Top! To enter, tweet "I have mad love for Harley Quinn, @hottopic and @comicsbeat" Prize supplied by Hot Topic, and winner selected in a random drawing. The contest will end Monday, February 2 at noon est. Tweet away!
"For a chance to win one of these pieces, INSERT TEXT HERE HEIDI"
Haha. Oops.
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Fandom-inspired fashion certainly isn't going anywhere; gone are the days of unisex, potato-sack tees as companies like WeLoveFine, Hot Topic and other retailers capitalize on the craze. The latest launch from Hot Topic is one of the most fandom-specific ones I've seen. It actually all revolves around a single character: Harley Quinn. And we have some to give away!
Some of these offerings are basically straight-up cosplay fodder, like the Harley suspender leggings and dress:
Others aim at slightly more subtle/everyday approach, like an argyle cardigan or mesh-sleeve top:
The collaboration from Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Hot Topic, dubbed Harleen, is available now at a fairly reasonable price point (mostly the $20 – $30 range).
Also, if you're one of those quizzie types, they've launched an app to hook you up with your ideal comics-related companion. While I'm not 100% convinced that the Joker is the right man for me, it's only a few questions long and comes with a coupon for the gear at the end.
PLUS: Giveaway! You can win a Joker and Harley Quinn Mesh Girls Pullover Top! To enter, tweet "I have mad love for Harley Quinn, @hottopic and @comicsbeat" Prize supplied by Hot Topic, and winner selected in a random drawing. The contest will end Monday, February 2 at noon est. Tweet away!
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Did you hear it?
Not the sound of traffic rolling or the chirping of nature out the window. No, that was a distinct sound. It was a rip. I'm sure it was a rip.
I don't dare look down. I can't be positive it was me that ripped. It could have been someone nearby – or if it was me, maybe it was a piece of my shirt. That kind of thing happens all the time.
Shirt tails spontaneously rip when exposed to direct light. It happens to guys over forty mostly because they don't ever tuck their shirts in. I think they feel better if the curve of their belly isn't accentuated. That way, people don't know they're wearing a 2XL. Sorry if that is rude. I've been there. I know what it is like to wear a 2XL. I don't want to be mean, but HEY! You're interjecting yourself into my stream of consciousness and trying to subvert the point. The issue at stake isn't even whether I tuck my shirts in or not! The issue is whether the sound I heard was MY pants ripping.
I swear they aren't too small. I've never been one of those guys to wear tight jeans. I certainly couldn't pull off the whole skinny jean thing. Reason number 328 that makes me glad I'm not a girl (#1 being that we guys can pee anywhere). I hate tight pants. Okay, so I'm not dead, I don't mind them on some people, but there should be a government application you have to fill out before you can wear your pants too tight. Mine would get rejected instantly!
Besides, I hate wearing anything tight or constricting. I remember when I first joined the working world and business casual had not yet become acceptable. I had Walter Mittyesque daydreams about wrestling a bear and being drug around by my necktie. Well, they weren't actually daydreams, I fell asleep at my desk often because I wasn't quite used to being out of college. So I guess they were just dreams.
HEY! There you go again. Stop it!
Will you look down? I don't want to. I'm afraid.
If you look down, and my pants are ripped, then our relationship could enter a very awkward stage. Our friendship would never be the same. Kinda like when the strainer from the faucet flew off and sprayed water all over my pants. I lost a bunch of friends that day because everyone at work thought I'd peed myself. And when I said I loved that guys can pee anywhere, I wasn't talking about the break room at work. I was more thinking in the woods. The great outdoors – manly stuff like peeing on trees or a fire.
Who says we have a relationship anyway?
I mean, you won't even tell me if I have a large gaping hole in my pants… which would be bad. Real bad. Why does it always happen in public? Why not when you get them out of the dryer and you put them on in the privacy of your own home? A rip there would be much more pallatable. More forgiving. I could laugh it off and change clothes without anyone else knowing. But it never happens that way. Pants have a way of telling a story unlike any other article of clothing.
Uh Oh! I feel a breeze – and not a natural breeze unless you live in a special colony or ride a boat and stick your leg up on the side.
Oh well. Here's to a rip-roaring New Year. Now that we've got this embarrassing sequence finished on day 3, maybe we're covered on humility for the balance of 2015
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Which is better – to rip ones pants or to let one rip? I know…shame on me ;)
What a ripping yarn!! :-)
My man-book says it is worse to rip pants. Way worse.
Oh that man-book!
oops! oh!
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Guest post by T Campbell.
Can the soul of Western civilization be found in a pair of red briefs? Was our first great superhero at his strongest, his noblest, his superest, before modern interpretations stripped him of his underwear? Is there a connection?
A generation ago, when those red briefs were an inseparable part of Superman's design, he was the most familiar superhero by a wide margin, leading the field in film adaptations,[1] headlining cartoon shows,[2] and even winning over famous media critics who were fiction writers in their own right. Even now, if you believe superheroes have anything to say to American culture or the human experience, you sort of have to start with him, because he's the prototype.
Umberto Eco called him "the representative of all his similars" [3] and Harlan Ellison described him as one of "only five fictional creations known to every man, woman, and child on the planet."[4] Born in the early hours of a visual, easily reproduced medium, he was popular enough to codify most of what being a superhero meant. The Oxford English Dictionary even mentions him by name in its definition of "superhero":
su·per·he·ro ˈso͞opərˌhirō noun: superhero; plural noun: superheroes; noun: super-hero; plural noun: super-heroes. a benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers, such as Superman.[5]
And yet, Batman emerged a year later with no superhuman powers at all, and he was far from the only superhero to flout that membership requirement.[6] What really seemed to make a superhero a superhero, in the minds of the public, was the benevolence, the codename and the costume.
Superman is a strong man created by weak boys. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were nerdy teens when they came up with their first "Superman," a madman with mental, not physical, powers.[7] Their second draft, far closer to the version we know, had what appeared to be a streak of white in his hair and a bare chest.[8] And those trunks, which persisted through other versions for eighty years.
Lacking any personal experience being strong, S. & S. took Superman's powers from their beloved science fiction, and his costume from the circus.[9]
Underpants on tights were signifiers of extra-masculine strength and endurance in 1938. The cape, showman-like boots, belt and skintight spandex were all derived from circus outfits and helped to emphasize the performative, even freak-show-esque, aspect of Superman's adventures. Lifting bridges, stopping trains with his bare hands, wrestling elephants: these were superstrongman feats that benefited from the carnival flair implied by skintight spandex. Shuster had dressed the first superhero as his culture's most prominent exemplar of the strongman ideal, unwittingly setting him up as the butt of ten thousand jokes.
Grant Morrison [10]
Actually, Siegel and Shuster thought of Superman's other clothes as the mockable ones. To fully understand the significance of Superman's costume, look at him when he's out of it—when he's Clark Kent.
In virtually every version of Superman, Clark is an exercise in patient self-restraint, the ultimate man pretending day by day to be the ultimate common man. In his early days, this restraint was a superstrongman feat all its own, because Clark was extra pathetic—the better for Siegel, Shuster and the readers to identify with him.
I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed. So it occurred to me: What if I was really terrific? What if I had something special going for me, like jumping over buildings or throwing cars around or something like that?
Jerry Siegel [11]
Kent looked like Shuster, who later lifted weights for five years but never developed the bodybuilder's confidence.[12] If Kent's daily humiliations echoed Siegel's past, they also predicted part of Shuster's future.[13] When Shuster's worsening eyesight drove him out of cartooning, he went back to deliveries, showing up at his former publisher carrying a package and wearing a ratty, worn-out suit.[14]
It's not hard to imagine nerdy Shuster stammering "Sign here, please" in the same voice that Kent used to ask Lois, on their first date, if it wouldn't be "reasonable" to let a bullying gangster have just one dance with her.[15]
Yet Shuster also drew Clark with a rock-hard physique that threatened to burst out of his jacket and pants at any moment. Every so often, after meekly tolerating an editor's blustering or Lois' icy contempt, "Clark" would crack a smile: if only they knew. For him, the angst Siegel and Shuster had felt in real life was just a pose, a suit he put on sometimes. And then he'd hear someone in trouble and strip off his shirt to reveal the S-shield underneath. The red trunks would soon follow. Underwear, for the underself.[16]
It was all just a game. Everything was going to be all right. Superman cheerfully presided over a world of bright rainbow colors where hurts and humiliations were temporary. Indeed, after a couple of years he developed a code against killing—a code most superheroes also followed.[17]
They also imitated the briefs, especially his most immediate peers—the original versions of Batman, Robin, Hawkman, Hourman, Starman, Dr. Fate, the Spectre, the Atom, and the Star-Spangled Kid all rocked the look as seen below. [18] And yes, more than half of those heroes also followed his "Somethingman" naming convention.
The 1960s and 1970s still saw plenty of new trunks-wearers among Avengers like Giant-Man and the Vision, mutants like Magneto, and gods like Orion. The Thing wore only trunks, and the Hulk torn purple pants. Other gods and mutants (Thor, Darkseid, the early X-Men) wore onesies broken up with a belt.[19] Strangely, two X-Men who each disdained the other's sense of style—Cyclops and Wolverine—went full trunks-over-pants from the 1970s into the 1990s.[20]
This tendency to assign the look to gods and mutants, though, instead of more central figures like Captain America, Mister Fantastic, and Spider-Man, may have been an early sign that it was on its way out. These newer Marvel characters stood out from the first generation by being more fully realized people in their civilian identities, if not eliminating the dual identity altogether. Of the marquee Marvel heroes, only Thor, whose fashions and godly nature made him the exception that proved the rule, was introduced with a Clark Kentish self-denying secret identity.[21]
Superman's influence continued to erode as the decades wore on. Newer heroes showed less interest in the code against killing or in names ending in "-man."[22] And costume redesigns left the trunks behind. The X-Men got into black leather for a while, and their later, more colorful costumes still left the briefs out.[23]
Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film "de-briefed" comics' second most famous underwear wearer. Batman never went back to the briefs in any succeeding movies: they began to fade from the comics as well, as shown in this sample of Ben Moore's larger survey of Bat-suits seen in various media, covering the period from 2005-2012.[24]
The look could still show up in the deliberately retro stylings of a film like The Incredibles; despite fashionista Edna Mode's disdain for capes and insistence that "I never look back, darling, it distracts from the now," her creations had an old-fashioned flair that matched the traditional values of their wearers, the kind of nuclear family that seemed to headline most sitcoms from the 1950s to the 1980s.[25]
Superman, for many years, seemed content to be a bit old-fashioned. His brand hadn't been about "cool" for a long time: it was more about safety and stability. The comic-book Superman of 1962 or 1988 was more scientist than slugger, often approaching problems from a cool remove. His peers honored him as the one who came first, and therefore someone who didn't need to follow the trends. He had, after all, defined them.[26]
Nevertheless, as superheroes and popular entertainment in general grew increasingly impatient with the "no kill rule," the temptation to challenge Superman for wearing last year's morals was overwhelming. The movies of the 1970s and 1980s danced around the issue by making Superman's foes inanimate[27] or leaving their fates uncertain.[28] But many of his best-loved adventures, the ones that could claim to influence his canon, saw him sorely tempted to end a life—or even saw him succumb.
However, this was always an ending for the character as we knew him, as proved by what came next. In one such story, Superman instantly punished himself by giving up his super-powers and retiring.[29] In another, he died along with his foe.[30] In a third, he had a mental breakdown and went on a long journey of soul-searching before returning to duty with an even firmer vow, "Never again."[31] In multiple stories of a world not our own, a world gone wrong, Superman deciding to kill is his first step toward villainy.[32] And at least once, he used magicians' stage tricks to fool the world into thinking he'd broken his rule—just to show how terrible a Superman unchecked by restraint would be.[33]
The conservatism is unmistakable but charming. Nearly all fictional franchises create a moral universe that rewards readers for following them, and Superman is no exception. However much he struggled with it, refusing to kill would always be The Right Choice. Other heroes would always look to him for guidance, saluting his cape as if it were the flag. Underwear on the outside of your pants totally works.
The super-briefs stayed on for generations, in comics, movies, TV, Halloween costumes and branded, official kids' underwear—an incentive to finish toilet training if ever there was one. [34]
And then everyone seemed to reject them at once. In 2011, Jim Lee redesigned all DC Comics' top-selling characters, giving them the scratchy, slightly self-conscious "edginess" that had made Lee famous.[35] But the artist who had kept Cyclops and Wolverine in trunks now broke precedent. The red of Superman's trunks shifted to his belt, and its buckle took a shape echoing the chest symbol. The trunks vanished.
I think you have to go for the core elements that are critical to the costume and freely change what looks dated… For me, the red trunks on Superman, you didn't notice. It gets colored in blue anyhow.[36]
In the same year's Action Comics, Grant Morrison and Rags Morales emphasized the populist strain in Siegel's early, Depression-era stories. Theirs was a Superman for the 99 percent, and his costume was the believable result of a reporter's salary: a screen-printed T-shirt, short cape, and jeans. [37] Morrison explained:
We felt it was time for the big adventures of a 21st-century Paul Bunyan who fights for the weak and downtrodden against bullies of all kinds, from robot invaders and crime lords to corrupt city officials. The new look reflects his status as a street-level defender of the ordinary man and woman.[38]
The filmmakers of 2013's Man of Steel found the trunks clashed with their concept of the costume as alien armor. Even director Zack Snyder, whose adaptation of Watchmen had featured two trunks-over-pants designs to the comic books' one,[39] now found himself breaking precedent.
The costume was a big deal for me, and we played around for a long time. I tried like crazy to keep the red briefs on him. Everyone else said, "You can't have the briefs on him." I looked at probably 1,500 versions of the costumes with the briefs on.[40]
Who stole Superman's undies? Morrison takes responsibility for his part in it, Lee shrugs about careless colorists and readers, Snyder bows to the input of unnamed advisors. Their earlier output, though, suggests they had no dislike for the design, just a need to follow popular taste rather than acting as if Superman still shaped it. But fashion, as ever, sends a message about its wearer.
In Man of Steel, the blue is navy, the yellow rusty and gritty. Smallville's Clark operates without a costume at all. Both versions of Superman are painfully unsure of themselves, closeted, desperate, and far less successful than earlier versions at preventing collateral damage.[41] Smallville averaged one death per episode in each season.[42] Superman's first TV outing, The Adventures of Superman, averaged none—and lasted six seasons to Smallville's ten.[43]
Analyst Charles Watson puts the Man of Steel death toll at 129,000, with the last of those deaths by Superman's own hand.[44] Contrast this with Superman: the Movie, in which Superman saves everyone at risk from a devastating earthquake except Lois Lane, whom he then rescues via time travel. Man of Steel opened in eight times as many theaters as Superman: The Movie.[45] An influential new beginning, and by his old standards, an inauspicious one.
Man of Steel Superman may scream in anguish after killing General Zod, but unlike in the other stories where he crosses that line, he seems to get over it pretty fast. One scene later, he's cheerfully knocking an Army drone out of the sky. He actually seems more relaxed and happy after the killing is done! No doubt Lois' approval helps, but even so.
Man of Steel screenwriter David Goyer appears to be weaving some acknowledgments of that issue into its sequel.[46] He would like to assure you that the Superman you remember from your childhoods isn't gone—he's just not fully reborn yet.
Our movie was, in a way, Superman Begins; he's not really Superman until the end of the film. We wanted him to have had that experience of having taken a life and carry that through onto the next films. Because he's Superman and because people idolize him, he will have to hold himself to a higher standard.[47]
It's true that Smallville and Man of Steel focus on a young Superman who hasn't had a chance to become the graceful legend of earlier works. But these have been the portrayals to reach the widest audience in the last decade. [48] Even in current comics, though they have a lighter color scheme and mood, he's an impulsive younger man with a quick temper.[49] The latest Superman project to be announced, TV's Krypton, will take place thirty years before his birth.[50]
Put it all together and you're left with the impression that Superman's 21st-century caretakers would rather invoke the smiling, life-preserving, cool-headed circus superstrongman than actually show him. Will the next film change that? Will it give him the power and certitude to preserve all intelligent life in his path with a calm soul and a wink at the viewer? Or is that Superman no longer filmable, a relic to be tossed out like a pair of outgrown briefs?
Tights may tell.
[1] 1978's Superman: The Movie earned nearly six times its budget and spearheaded the only superhero film franchise of the following decade.
[2] Some variation of Super Friends, always with Superman as the headliner, appeared on TV from 1973-1986.
[3] Eco and Natalie Chilton. "The Myth of Superman. The Amazing Adventures of Superman. Review." Diacritics, 2(1), pp. 14-22. Spring 1972.
[4] Ellison, Foreword to Dennis Dooley and Gary Engle, Superman at 50: The Persistence of a Legend, 1987.
[5] Oxford English Dictionary entry, 2014. Found via Google search, November 22, 2014.
[6] Batman later used gadgets as sort of substitute super-powers, but other figures—the first Atom, Wildcat, and the Spirit, among others—used nothing but ordinary fists.
[7] Jerry Siegel (illustration by Joe Shuster), "The Reign of the Superman," Science Fiction: The Advance Guard of Future Civilization #3, 1933.
[8] Les Daniels, Superman: The Complete History, 2004, p. 17.
[9] Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Action Comics #1, 1938.
[10] Grant Morrison, Super Gods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, 2012.
[11] Gerard Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the American Comic Book, 2005, p. 63.
[12] Tom Andrae with Geoffrey Blum and Gary Coddington, "The Birth of Superman," Nemo #2, 1983.
[13] Craig Yoe, Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster, 2009; Brad Ricca, Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—The Creators of Superman, 2013.
[14] Joe Simon, My Life in Comics, p. 188, 2011.
[15] Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Action Comics #1, 1938.
[16] Alex Ross for Alex Ross and Paul Dini, Superman: Peace on Earth, p. 7, 1938.
[17] Editor Whitney Ellsworth was the driving force behind this rule, as early as 1940, years before the Comics Code Authority.
[18] Art by Jerry Ordway, Who's Who in the DC Universe #12, 1986.
[19] Tim Leong, "A Venn Diagram of Superhero Tropes," Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe, 2013.
[20] Art by Jim Lee for X-Men #11, 1992.
[21] Dr. Donald Blake is more complicated than we can cover here,
[22] Wikipedia's "List of notable superhero debuts" shows a tapering off of such names after the 1960s.
[23] Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, New X-Men #114, 2001; Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men #1, 2004.
[24] Selected from Ben Moore's 2012 "Batman Infographic: Every Significant Bat-Suit Ever," found at Screen Rant, http://screenrant.com/batman-infographic-every-batsuit-benm-144238/.
[25] Brad Bird, The Incredibles, 2004.
[26] Image by Jim Lee for DC Comics.
[27] In Superman: The Movie and Superman Returns, natural disasters are the chief problem; in Superman III and IV, the main villains are destroyed but arguably not truly alive.
[28] Superman II.
[29] Alan Moore, Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger, Action Comics #583, 1986. Source of the image below and the last "Silver Age" Superman story.
[30] Dan Jurgens, Superman #75, 1992. The famous, notorious "Death of Superman."
[31] John Byrne, Superman #22, 1988; Jerry Ordway, Adventures of Superman #450, 1989; Roger Stern and Kerry Gammill, Superman #28, 1989; George Perez, Action Comics #649, 1989. John Byrne's last Superman story, and a heavy influence on Man of Steel in terms of who Superman kills and why.
[32] Central premise of the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us, released in 2013, ongoing storyline in the Justice League/Justice League Unlimited animated series (2001-2006) and invoked in the climax of 1996's Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross.
[33] Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke, Action Comics #775, 2001. Adapted into a 2012 direct-to-DVD animated film, Superman vs. The Elite.
[34] Photo from http://savinginsalinas.blogspot.com/2011/09/yard-sale-finds.html. Superman has had many adaptations but this was true of virtually all of them until 2011.
[35] Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, Justice League #1, 2011 (image source), and George Perez, Superman #1, 2011. Lee's career goes back to 1987.
[36] WonderCon 2013 panel, "WC13: Jim Lee Talks DC, Answers Fan Questions and More!," Comic Book Resources, March 30, 2013, http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=44604.
[37] Grant Morrison and Rags Morales, Action Comics #2, 2011.
[38] Dareh Gregorian, "Bird? Plane? Superdude!," The New York Post, July 18, 2011.
[39] Nite Owl wore them in both versions, but Ozymandias picked them up in the movie. Comics 1986-1987, film 2009.
[40] Reed Tucker, "'Steel' this movie," The New York Post, November 25, 2012. Image from Man of Steel, 2013.
[41] In addition to the film itself, see Emma Dibdin, "'Man of Steel': Zack Snyder defends Superman's 'collateral damage,'" Digital Spy, August 30, 2013.
[42] According to smallville.wikia.com. In some seasons it was as high as three.
[43] 1952-1958; 2001-2011.
[44] Graphic by Chris Ritter, "The Insane Destruction That the Final 'Man Of Steel' Battle Would Do To NYC, By The Numbers," Buzzfeed, http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/man-of-steel-destruction-death-analysis, June 17, 2013.
[45] Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com.
[46] Devin Faraci. "Find Out Superman's Situation In BATMAN V SUPERMAN," Badass Digest, December 15, 2014.
[47] 2013 speech at the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters' Lecture series.
[48] 2006's Superman Returns was far less profitable and problematic in a different way.
[49] Johns, Lee, and Morrison have confirmed this is deliberate.
[50] Lesley Golberg, "Syfy, David Goyer Developing Superman Origin Story 'Krypton,'" The Hollywood Reporter, December 8, 2014.
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Glad to see a Superman article even though it seems to still be stuck on digging into the man of steel movie yet again. It's interesting to me that this commentary is picking on the red trunks issue again as well. I had thought it was a good move to update supermans costume personally. It's interesting to me it wasn't as big of a deal when Batman lost them. What's also interesting to me that the article fails to mention that superman killed the 3 kryptonians in the dinner movie as well. And that superman in that movie was quite cheerful (and so was Lois) in doing so. At least in the man of steel he showe some regret. I have watched man of steel many times and I'm still somewhat confused as to how people are saying he caused the deaths when in fact it was zod throwing superman all over the place and using the terra former that was doing the damage. The avengers caused similar damage too. But nobody batted an eye. Captain America certainly did as well in the winter soldier, but every body's fine with that too. As a superman fan, I can see people hold superman up to this odd standard that has to be perfect but at the same time hate him when he is depicted as such over the years. I personally thought the man I steel was a very well crafted superhero movie that rose above the usual superhero pop movies that Marvel has successfully produced. I am very eager to see the man of steel return to the theaters.
I think the reason Cap and Avenges did't get the grief that MOS got is A) because you see the Avengers take concrete steps to contain the carnage (re – the perimeter that Tony kept around the alien attack and Cap's directions to the police to aid in evacuating the civilians) and B) Cap often acts, esp in his first movie and Winter Soldier, as an agent of the government, and as a society, we've established that duly appointed government agents do have the ability to take a life under certain circumstances.
We miss Batman's briefs less because they've always blended in more with the costume, and are not as 'archetypical' for the character. For Batman it's the cowl with the ears, for Superman it's the blue/red combination.
Take away the costume, and Superman ceases to be Superman. The other way around, if an actor can wear the costume (with pants) without looking silly, he's fit to play Superman. Superman, blue suit, red cape, briefs and boots, is his own walking logo – changing that logo is also impacting what it stands for.
Maybe it's me being an old coot, but there always was something comforting about Ma Kent having sown the costume, and giving her son a stack of spare capes on his birthday.
With taking away the briefs, DC has pretty much said: "We're embarassed by the trunks over peejays look", which is shame. It'd be as if Disney would give Donald pants because they're embarassed about him walking around in his bare buns. That's suspension of disbelief, people. If you can't belief that a guy with multi-coloured spandex is a hero, you probably shouldn't be bringing out superhero comics in the first place!
@Remco – agreed. Superman needing to wear scaly Kryptonian armor seems dumb. Much better to have it be something his mom made for him, reinforces the alien-raised-by-kindly-humans angle.
Superman did not kill the three Kryptonians in the "dinner" movie. It was a little ambiguous in the theater version of Superman II (which is really more of a Lester movie than a Donner one), but in the expanded TV version a couple of years later there was a deleted scene that clearly showed the police at the fortress arresting the three now-powerless villains.
S'right, Allen. Judging from the theatrical release seems like the fair thing to do, since probably more people have seen it, but even there, Zod and co. just kind of fall into a mysterious white mist. Hey, Superman could keep his suspended animation pit in there. It could happen! Some people certainly did look at that scene and go, "Oh, they're totally dead," but there's considerably more room for interpretation that what happens to Zod in Man of Steel. I tried to sum up all that with the word "ambiguous."
(And I'd add that I'm pretty sure the ambiguity was purposeful. This was still considered a "family movie" and the ideas about what kids could handle were considerably different in 1980, too.)
For me, Man Of Steel wanted to provide a fresh new take on Superman and not re-tread what everybody already knows. It went big, and it went epic like a Superman movie should. And the Zod death was actually something I had read before in the comics as well, and something people in the mainstream weren't expecting.
I believe Warner Brothers tried to make a Superman that was in-line with the Donner films as best they could with Superman Returns by Brian Singer. And even though I liked that as well, I thought it was just impeded too much by the past and just seemed dated at this point. Updating Superman to be flawed for MOS, I thought was a good idea. There's definitely an odd bias I see against Superman as opposed to Batman. Batman has been re-defined multiple times and has gone from campy to serious through the ages, but for some reason people don't think the same should be done with Superman even when it's done well. And like I said, the flip side when Superman is done in his classic style? Nobody cares.
@Remco To me, Superman's costume is as iconic as Batman's and as it was okay to lose Batman's briefs it's also okay to lose Superman's. Superman's iconic look is still iconic even without the briefs. Morrison's Jeans and T-shirt look was pretty cool to me, and the Kryptonian battle armor has actually grown alot on me and I like it. Batman has gotten very tech'd out and everybody seems to be okay with that. I personally think he still shouldn't have body armor like he does nowadays, but I'm okay with it. But Superman? He just can't catch a break. I feel that the general consensus is that he should stay in the past and not get updated. And as a fan? That scares me a little bit.
As for Captain America being a government agent and that makes it okay to take lives, I can see that and understand the logic. It's certainly not the Captain America I know, but again it's a sign to me that Captain America has been allowed to evolve, but Superman has not.
BTW if I'm coming across as being overly agressive and offensive, to the writer of the article as well, I apologize in advance. I'm a giant nerd when it comes to Superman, and I've re-watched Man of Steel so many times because I really did enjoy the movie and am trying to wrap my head around why there's a lot of hate (and I do mean Hate with a capital H) for it. I sincerely do believe it's one of the better Superhero movies out there. So sorry if I'm a long-winded jerk.
Apropos of nothing really, I watched about a third of the first Superman tonight and…wow, that movie never stops being perfect.
"Apropos of nothing really, I watched about a third of the first Superman tonight and…wow, that movie never stops being perfect."
As I've often told friends, the first half of Superman: The Movie is as close to a David Lean film as superhero movies get, with its character-driven storytelling and sweeping camera shots of middle America. And the crane shot over the wheat fields after Clark tells Ma he has to leave…it's magical, when paired with John Williams's score.
But when we get to Otis and "Mistah Luu-torrr" and "MISS. TESS-MAAA-KERRR!" it all sort of devolves into a big-budget, Lorenzo Semple-scripted Batman episode. Although it could have been worse, according to the (apocryphal?) tale that Mario Puzo wanted Luthor chewing Kleenex to show how crazy he was.
Also: Glenn Ford is the best Pa Kent ever: strong, compassionate, supportive. When he dies, it's a heartbreaking scene. I was so disappointed with Man of Steel's paranoid, let-the-bus-full-of-kids-drown version. When I heard that Kevin Costner had been cast, I thought, "Of course! Superman's dad is Ray Kinsella from Field of Dreams–that's perfect." And then Snyder and Goyer's take on the character turned out to be so, so wrong. When he dies, it's, "Well…that was just stupid."
Had Donner and the Salkinds combined the 1st and 2nd halves of, respectively, the 1st and 2nd Superman flms, we may well have ended up with the perfect movie.
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Over the weekend at the Long Beach Comic Con, Tamara Brooks found some officially licensed DC t-shirts that gave messages that were a bit outmoded, to say the least. Tom Spurgeon quickly labeled them "repulsive," and everyone else was all like reducing Wonder Woman to a victory level on a sex video game, really? Well, after CBR wrote to DC "DC wrote back and said, we agree:
DC Comics is home to many of the greatest male and female Super Heroes in the world. All our fans are incredibly important to us, and we understand that the messages on certain t-shirts are offensive. We agree. Our company is committed to empowering boys and girls, men and women, through our characters and stories. Accordingly, we are taking a look at our licensing and product design process to ensure that all our consumer products reflect our core values and philosophy.
WHAT TH–! What century is this? Comic Book company, you are supposed to remain silent and just internally fret over these kinds of things, not step up and do the right thing by admitting it was not the best official message to send?
To be honest, I find the first shirt repulsive. I get that showing Superman is a bro who bang hot chicks is an upgrade for his bulgeless underpants image. But…not the best way to get that across. The second is reminiscent of other t-shirts where the wearer declares she in training to be a trophy wife or whatever. Kinda silly but not the worst thing I've seen. But yeah, maybe not the best message for a company that is clearly trying to del with a surge of new customers who are more sensitive to this kind of thing. So yeah, end of kerfuffle, before it ever really got going.
Risking fear of being called an apologist (and trying to make it perfectly clear that my personal opinion is that I think both shirts are incredibly tacky and the Superman one is inappropriate as well) I'm wondering what is to bed said to a woman who wouldn't have a problem wearing the Batman shirt, in particular. I guess more to the point, if it isn't to your taste than you don't have to buy it, but why is it fair to deny a woman who does like the shirt a right to buy it because you find it sexist. The shirt is made for a woman, and while it does reinforce certain dumb stereotypes in gender relations, I know women who wouldn't have a problem wearing that shirt, both ironically and not. I don't think any lesser of them for wanting to, and it does bother me than any one faction of a community has the power to blanket ban anything due to personal taste. I guess this is where I do see boycotts and calls to action stepping over the line a little bit.
I'm not trying to start an argument or mansplain or anything else like that, Again, my personal tastes are that both shirts are tacky. I just don;t think that my personal taste she preclude someone elses.
(Let me also add that I see a huge difference in the shirts. While the above shirt would make much more contextual and character sense to say Bruce Wayne, instead of Batman, I don't think it's entirely off character as the Superman/Wonder Woman shirt is. Even in confines of objective good taste, I can't and won't defend that shirt and think that probably shouldn't have been made in the first place.)
Tacky and downright bad, typographically, graphically and message. All bad. "Time to get someone from branding dept. looking at these shirt designs!!"
So, comic book fans are picking up pennies from the street so they can donate them to the CBLDF, but these shirts have to be censored and banished from public view? What a bunch of hypocrites. If they are so offensive, they won't sell. Problem solved.
Some women find the role of being a wife a complete accomplishment in its own right, especially those who are totally lazy and bait rich men.
I find all of those shirts a bit distasteful, but at the same time that doesn't mean they shouldn't be available for sale to people who want them. I know at least one woman who would ecstatically buy and wear that "Training to be Batman's wife" shirt without the barest hint of irony, though I guess her tastes don't get to count when they run contrary to those of the "new customers who are more sensitive to this kind of thing."
@Heidi – CA's piece on these mentions that the "training" shirt is a junior miss tee being aimed at teen girls, so that may be where some of the distaste for that one is coming from.
"What century is this?!"
Hey, DC Comics still publishes 'Legion of Super-Heroes' stories — set in the *31st* century — in which Phantom Girl does nothing but fret helplessly on the sidelines while Ultra Boy fights.
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Signs aren't the only thing greeting attendees at the entrance to New York Comicon. Amidst the registration booths and all too quickly emptied bins for lanyards ReedPOP has its own boutique, featuring the geek-chic fashion of Ashley Eckstein's Her Universe line.
Her Universe has become a significant presence at both the San Diego and New York conventions, which in turn reflects as place as a market leader in pop-culture inspired fashion. I had the pleasure of speaking at length with Ashley back at SDCC after her successful geek couture fashion show, and as an attorney I have to say that she is a role model for anyone who wants to incorporate copyrighted and trademarked material in their line. In a world where "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission" has led any number of creators astray, she has from the outset been conscientious (and ambitious!) in licensing characters for Her Universe clothes.
But that's not the only way in which Her Universe reflects the better angels of geek community's nature. Besides integrating the participatory spirit of comics-related media discussed in my last post, Ashley has also been a prominent advocate of geek fashion's capacity to empower those who wear it, both through her clothes and her anti-bullying activism. Create, speak, show others who you are with fear – where the less imaginative may just see licensed properties, her community sees freedom woven into her designs.
Which brings us to the future of geek couture and its role in the community's future. Walk around San Diego and New York Comic-Cons and you'll see expressive fashion everywhere, from handcrafted TARDIS earrings and comic-related t-shirts carried in the ubiquitous TARDIS bag to sophisticated cosplay and brands such as Her Universe itself. As the Her Universe show embodied back at San Diego, the key to the future is to go beyond prints and other reproductions of licensed material to transformative geek-inspired design – in fact, for a useful indication of where things are going, watch the development of the co-branded Marvel line announced last July.
As I discuss in my Fashion Ethics, Sustainability and Development class for the Fashion Law Institute, when we wear clothes we wear ourselves – our values, our aspirations, our communities.* It should, then, come as no surprise that when we look at geek couture, we see the future.
*Check out Professor Susan Scafidi's "Fashion as Information Technology" for more on this.
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Even though Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world, ten years ago, you'd be remiss to find comic conventions, toy shows, or most other forms of pop culture gatherings. The monthly mini show at the Shrine Expo was at times more a flea market than a convention and Frank and Son's collectibles is always basically a swap meet. Today, there's an overabundance of conventions and expos in L.A. for every facet of fandom. Seems like very weekend, fans of the popular arts have a place to gather somewhere in Southern California and that's far from a bad thing.
This weekend in Pasadena CA; artists, toy makers, and vinyl sculptors of all kinds gathered at the convention center for DesignerCon or Dcon as it's commonly known. If you're an art connoisseur or a collector of unique toys this show is for you. Dcon smashes together collectible toys and designer goods with urban, underground and pop art. The show is over 70,000 square feet and features over 300 vendors, art & custom live demonstrations, and much more. Attendees can get prints by quirky artist Michelliezoid, the barbwire covered bat from Skybound Ent, or something from Prints On Wood by Tara McPherson and Greg "Craola" Simkins.
Dcon also host a limited number of informative and fan panels covering topics such as crowdfunding, character design, and building a style all your own.
However the real star of the show is the floor. Traversing the straightforward rows of aisles is simplicity. A person could walk the entire floor to get the lay of the land and easily find the booths they want to get back to. One of the most interesting parts of Dcon is that no two booths are even remotely alike. First you see the adorable art of Unicorn Crafts and then turn around to look at the zealously detailed horror dioramas of Jackorama. One of our favorite exhibits was the Lego recreations of some iconic comic book covers by ComicBricks. The Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle cover was exquisite right down to its tiny bottle of hooch.
The show has a very niche appeal. If you're looking for comics, or figures from Mattel you won't find them here. But if you enjoy innovatively designed toys like Giant Robot or gallery quality art by masters like Jeff Soto then this show is well worth the low low price of $7 for entrance.
Dcon continues Sunday from 10am-5pm at the Pasadena Convention Center. Find out more info at DesignerCon.com. Check out a few pics from the show below.
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Speaking of that gifting time of the year, we've just partnered with Tee Public to offer the first ever Comics Beat TeePublic Store. TeePublic is a site that offers shirts designed by independent artists—there are hundreds of designs available but The Beat staff has specially curated a store just for our readers.
AMD there's a $14 sales on all shirts until tomorrow. So what are you waiting for? Support independent artists, support the Beat and get a snappy t-shirt to wear to your next comic-con.
Are these t-shirts officially licensed by the copyright holders?
So there copyright policy is "We'll do whatever we want until we get sued?
That's shitty. As someone who's posted about numerous fights for creators rights, getting into bed with these pop culture Tshirt sites is really low.
Yeah, I don't see how a legitimate parody arguement could be made for more than a handful of those shirts (if you put Flash and Roadrunner and Sonic and some other fast character (the Incredibles kid?) on a shirt, is that a parody of all than thus fair game, or is it just four separate copyright violations?). On the other hand, there are a lot of companies doing those, and the major IP holders seem to have turned a blind eye to it, so I guess that's their business.
I know that Heidi is friendly with Colleen Doran (just as an example).
Would she be okay if I made A Distant Soil shirts and made money off of them until Ms. Doran went through the hassle of proving that they were unauthorized?
Okay a couple of things:
These kind of storefronts are so common now that it never crossed my mind.
That said, it doesn't make it right. I didn't pick these shirts (I had a Beat staff member with better tastes than me do it) and as it happens, most of them depict corporate owned, and not creator owned properties. Not that stealing from a corporation is a GOOD thing, but it is a natural distinction. There are no T-shirts ripping off Colleen Doran because her creations seem more personal than (to be honest) Star Wars. This is not a legal distinction but it is a distinction.
All of that said, I am closing this thread and revising my storefront. I did do due diligence on this site to make sure that it is not one that rips off webcartoonists and other artists. Once I had ascertained that it is a storefront and not a creator, I was satisfied as to that. But I will restrict the shirt to designs I own, and parody or non copyrighted shirts.
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Going about your business clad in the underwear of a superhero is a god given right, and it's not just for cosplay any more: Hot Topic is now offering underoos in adult sizes including Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Captain America He-Man and Skeletor. Please note, these are actually branded Underoos, after a a long ago brand of child sized superheroic undies, as our pal Paul at Idle Hands revealed. And they come in actual underoo packaging.
You'll note that on the site, female underoos wearers do a saucy butt turn so we can see if the underwear makes your butt look good which is very very important.
Men merely truck their undershirt into their underpants in order to look…heroic. Is that a real thing???
There is also this Batman bra. This could make getting to second base a big surprise on date night.
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If you are a New York Jets fan, as I am, you know that the best part about supporting this team is finding out just how awful and bizarre things can get. I know other football teams are terrible and have weird things happen, but when you throw in the New York media fishbowl, you get a special kind of magic. That magic has been on full display for the last few years with the wonderful soap opera known as The Jets Quarterback Situation. The Situation seemed to be okay for a few years (2009-10) when young Mark Sanchez led the Jets to the AFC Championship game TWO YEARS in a row. But then….it went pear shaped.
Sanchez and the franchise faltered in 2011 and it was revealed that flamboyant coach Rex Ryan had a tattoo of Sanchez at the same time it was discovered that Ryan liked to make rather sweet foot fetish videos with his wife. In 2012, Sanchez was joined by back-up quarterback Tim Tebow, already a sensation for his God-fueled rampage with the Bronco despite not really being able to do things like throw the ball. This led to a three ring media circus of insane proportions as model-dating Sanchez and God-loving virgin Tebow were cast as antagonists, while all they wanted to do was stand around on the sidelines pretending nothing was happening. Sanchez was eventually sidelined for keeps after being injured in the last quarter of a meaningless pre-season game, leaving Geno Smith and Michael Vick to enact this year's version of the sacrifice of the Corn King Quarterback for bloodthirsty fans.
In his first year in 2013, Geno Smith proved to be a…work in progress. That progress was stalled entirely this year, with Smith's skills such as they are wilting under the New York media scrutiny, and yet another drama over whether washed-up Vick should led the team. At this point the Jets are 2-11, and well on their way to one of the most futile years any fan can remember.
On Sunday the Jets lost in overtime to the Vikings, 30-24 in a game that wasn't as close as it sounds. Although Smith didn't have the horrific game he had on Monday night, Gang Green could only muster a bunch of field goals in five red zone attempts.
NOW, if you are really a Jets fan you know that the best part of being horrible is how the SNY analysts rip the team to shreds after every game. It's a guilty pleasure we've all enjoyed for years. The current crew is a bit more mellow than the Adam Schein/Joe Klecko years, but yesterday they managed to find a new way to be critical, tearing into Smith for how he was dressed for the traditional post game press conference. Smith came out in some kind of shapeless white smock that looked like something Uncle Owen would throw on to go check on some vaporators out on the moisture farm. It's true that it was very cold in Minnesota, and Smith was probably only trying to bundle up for the brutal 10 yard journey from the players entrance to the team bus, but that was no excuse for the SNY team. Even after the worst shellacking, Sanchez would show up for post game appearances in a suit and tie, a look that the SNY team of Brian Custer, Erik Coleman, Ray Lucas and former special teams coordinator Mike Westhoff found far more suitable.
Just watch.
I hope you will forgive me for my one sports moment of the year. I added this video to the library of great jets moments such as Mark Sanchez eating a hotdog on the sidelines,
and a more recent event where he reviewed the food options available at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, where he's playing pretty well now that he doesn't have New York's psychotic mind blitz coming at him on every waking moment.
Obviously, poor Geno Smith has crumbled under the pressure, and so has his closet.
I'm an Eagles fan; Sanchez is not very good. I've never seen a QB turn the ball over as much as this guy does.
Chris, he's got your team at 9-4 atop the NFC East.
Nah, the offense does. They're 3-2 with him and they are a running – based offense actually. He has way too many turnovers.
Say what you will, but as a Washington fan, I'd love to have your problems this season.
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the entire crowd was behind zigs. the man really knows the ring. who'da thunk this was one of the guys who were in the spirit squad
i mean, i'm not gonna lie, it took me a while to warm up to "dolph ziggler" but there's something so old school about him
Yeah, but that's just 'cause it's a New York crowd. Won't be like that everywhere.
By the way, I had it on mute while it was happening... how did the crowd react to ADR's face turn lol?