Posts Tagged ‘comic book women’

I think most people underestimate just how many films in existence have been based off of comics. The list is rather extensive, even just for the English language ones.

I am not talking about the good ones either. This blog is for the ones that sucked. The ones that were either all around bad or just didn’t capture their parent source correctly.

This is for the ones that FAILED.

If I tried to discuss all of them, or went into TV movies, God forbid, we’d be here all day (and I really don’t want to review the Hoff as Nick Fury). So here is my short list.
 
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I am torn on this one. With the other versus blogs I had a clear favorite even when most of the time I greatly respected the opposing side, but with this particular debate it is harder to choose. I would say Marvel simply because Spider-Man, Deadpool, and the X-men are some of my favorite characters of all time, but then DC has Batman, and it really is hard to compete against Batman.

There is a lot more to cover with these franchises than with any of the others I have compared thus far, so bear with me. Onto a brief history of each of these incredible comic publishers.
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Now, I’m not trying to upset anyone here. Equal rights are an important thing, but so is femininity, and sometimes feminists and others can take an issue too far.

Women in comics has carried with it controversy since the first appearances of a female character on the page, and there will probably always be dissenters saying women are poorly or unfairly portrayed. In the past, those types of accusations may have even been true, but this is a new age of comics. For every finger pointing at exploitation of women, I can point a finger right back at how that same image or character is empowering, or has an empowering counterpart. Every fashion magazine on the rack has more negative effect on women than a single comic book character.

My examples, friends.
 
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