Am I the only one who felt a deep sense of shock and guilt that the only real, stand alone superheroine the female world has is Wonderwoman, and her flaw is that she's female?
That's just really, really, painfully sad. It might be easy to ignore because comicbooks do not interest a vast majority of the female population, but it is important to me and future generations that the biggest superheroine in comicbooks not be a huge contradiction.
Anyway, I just wanted to explore that idea. Here are some comic books which feature female heroines which I kind of feel we've been lacking.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Kabuki by David Mack
Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Fables by Bill Willingham
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (based off a book first)
There are lots more out there, some dedicated to a single female characters and others have a plot bigger than the actual characters.
WooHoo! Viva la Feminista!
ReplyDeleteHave we forgotten about Jean Grey?!
ReplyDelete"Jean Grey, as the Phoenix, has limitless telepathic powers, able to influence any individual. Jean’s telepathy allows her to communicate with others telepathically, read the thoughts of others, influence and control the minds of others, project her mind into the astral plane, and generate telepathic force blasts that can stun or kill others. Jean is one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals (animals with high intelligence, such as dolphins). She can also telepathically take away people’s natural bodily functions and senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or even mutant powers. A side effect of her telepathy is that she is gifted with total recall – she remembers everything."
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Good point. Although I'm not a huge fan, I like that she is one of the few superheroines in the x-men universe whose most used identity is her real name, Jean Grey. I think that's cool cause it takes something really normal and turns it into a heroic titlement.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard about Jean Gray (not much of an X-Men fan, sorry to say). I love the idea of the Phoenix, though. Very cool - and relative, yes?, to A Worn Path.
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