It's dumb to pretend there wasn't a lot of…chauvinism in She-Hulk's creation. They wanted a female character, so they slapped a gendered prefix on a male one. GREAT, MONEY, PLEASE. And they made her sexy because, as even Stan admits, that was the norm at the time. Which, acknowledged, but maybe we need to have a…

It's all of those things, and more besides.

As far as A goes, it's not like Wolverine has ever been presented as a heartthrob (in the comics, at least; damn Hugh Jackman for ruining my point). I guess Mr. Fantastic could be considered to have George Clooney thing, but it's never really been remarked upon. Spider-Man has been blandly attractive with some…

That being said, it's an interesting theory, and one of the cool parts of these long-running properties is how many themes you can read into them.

Well, as Freud (never really) said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." I don't think we really need to reach too far to figure out what Marston was doing with WW, especially since his stated mission goes pretty far in explaining it (so long as you add in an amount of chauvinism that was by no means shocking for its…

It also just makes the stories worse. Superman has a certain universality to him (that's how you can read him as everything from a farm boy to an immigrant to a god) that makes his stories more compelling- we can see ourselves in him a little. You just don't get that with Starfire (even though the characters have…

Also, too, while even the "normal" male super heroes have unrealistic physiques, they're not physiques designed to appeal to the opposite sex.

She'd actually be pretty perfect for an ABC show. Her new series is all Legal Issues + Robot Punching, I fail to see how that wouldn't be as good as AoS.

it's definitely a moment where you have to put the creator apart from the creation. Byrne and Claremont (to say nothing of Shooter!) are dicks, too, but that doesn't make the Dark Phoenix Saga any less cool. WOLVERINE THROWS A COLOSSUS AT HER FER CHRISSAKE!!!

The cliche (already!) is that DC is all like, "Wonder Woman is too complicated for her own movie," while Marvel is like "Here's a talking raccoon with machine guns!"

Judge Fudge will allow it.

Well, a couple things:

No clue. I don't really know much about Isreali politics beyond the fact that muscular defense policy seems to have an advantage right now, and the debate over middle Eastern politics is a little more wide-open than in the U.S.

Oh man, Velvet! After 2 issues I devoured, it completely fell off my radar. Stupid Comixology, getting more complicated to use…

Fair enough, and I agree with you on Thor generally.

I'd consider moving Simonson's Thor very high up on the list, if I were you. I don't much care for mythology stories, and respect most comics made before 1990 more than I like them, but it's really something else.

Yeah, it takes some discipline/judicious use of the head canon, but there are some extended runs at both publishers that function as complete stories in an of themselves- Simonson's Thor, Waid's FF,Bendis' Daredevil (Except for the cliffhanger)…none of them need you to know much of what was before, and don't force…

Well hey, Westminster has plenty of non-stop politicking! The Royals are goofy as fuck, but the UK's constitutional monarchy system is no more dysfunctional than the US' federal republic.

This is actually one of the few bits of Chicago/Illinois politics that doesn't bug me. The governor of Illinois spends a lot of time in Chicago, especially when he's from there. He's got to, it's the population hub of the state. I am content to fan-wank that every time we're not explicitly told/shown he's in Chicago,…

I just assume it's because she watched Max Headroom.