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Maybe don't go to a panel specifically about a guy and report on it if you don't like that guy
Admittedly that because most comics interviews are the definition of puff pieces but still
But yeah, Bleeding Cool isn't exactly journalism, so that explains it.
The Marvel/DC PR machines basically control the flow of all info and are more than happy to make sure everything stays as on-message and clean and simple as possible
Tangentially, there was an interesting if brief conversation in the Marvel Heroes supergroup chat about the various costumes worn by the ladies in the game. Some folks were talking about how they're starting to feel embarrassed running around in the skimpier costume options.
Which is GOOD! I remarked that, well, yes, they SHOULD be embarrassed spending cash money to deliberately by skimpy costumes, and I was glad to hear that.
Naturally, Emma Frost comes up because there isn't a single costume she has that isn't, well, it's Emma Frost. Which led to a short chat about character design, in that Emma has and is a provocative character by nature, and that kind of costuming is linked to that characterisation. My remark in response is that I'd totally 100% buy that if most other Marvel ladies didn't also wear provocative (at times even explicit) costumes who weren't characterised that way.
Kinda like, well, if it was JUST Emma, I'd be down with it. But because it's almost every lady ever, that just sounds a bit like yet another excuse to put a lady in skimpy clothing for the male gaze's sake.
Like I'm reading Waid's Daredevil and there's that tussle he gets into with Black Cat and I kinda get the plot-based reasons for certain artistic choices in their interactions but it definitely made me uncomfortable to read it on a train surrounded by strangers. I find that this is a good metric for me to use to identify when something is probably nudging past a line.
Now stuff like Greg Land literally tracing porn for fights? Yeah inexcusable
is all I'm saying
It is still a very niche market
cuz the way Twitterers act, you'd think so
I forgot, was the bendis one the one where he had like, cap wolvie and spidey in his head instead of konshu? Regardless, "Decent, but ignores how X was portrayed in the past" is basically Bendis' MO, isn't it?
(TBH, half the reason I liked this recent moon knight run was that it toned down the konshu stuff a lot for the earlier issues)
Hmm that gives me an idea
Superior iron man spoilers
Which I'm actually happy about, Tony deserves a good proper heroic spotlight after having a roooough few years