(*sigh*) Virgin Comics
Jul. 26th, 2007 01:40 amAs much as I deeply heart Virgin Comics, they do have this annoyingly sexist thread that runs throughout all of their publicity material, from their website to their press releases about the upcoming Jenna Jameson comic.
Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Virgin certainly isn't immune to publishing offensively stupid comics - witness The Sadhu, with its delicious racism cake and creamy sexism frosting. But Virgin has also proven capable of handling (even deliberately hypersexualized) heroines in a very respectful, non-objectified way - witness Devi and Snakewoman. I mean, Snakewoman could practically be a textbook on how to write an extraordinarily sexualized heroine who (gasp!) is portrayed as a subject with agency, rather than an objectified piece of meat. So I won't brush off the Jameson comic until I've given it a chance... But nothing about the press release, the story description, the cover artwork, or Jenna Jameson's previous track record with comics looks particularly promising.
I'll be over here in a corner reading Devi, Snakewoman, and Walk-In for my fix of awesome heroines from Virgin, thank you very much. Oh, and Ramayan for the beefcake, too.
Speaking of which, I haven't ordered my every-couple-of-months batch of Virgin comics in, well, a couple of months. Ah, but I have too much reading material piled in front of me right now, and am about to ship off on a long vacation, and my tiny Japanese village post office HATES having to hold my mail for me! (Yeah, I'm the annoying gaijin who keeps getting all of these shipments of books and comics from overseas and then is never at home to sign for said packages.)
I can assure you every artist we have in our studio is vying to get assigned to this project!
Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Virgin certainly isn't immune to publishing offensively stupid comics - witness The Sadhu, with its delicious racism cake and creamy sexism frosting. But Virgin has also proven capable of handling (even deliberately hypersexualized) heroines in a very respectful, non-objectified way - witness Devi and Snakewoman. I mean, Snakewoman could practically be a textbook on how to write an extraordinarily sexualized heroine who (gasp!) is portrayed as a subject with agency, rather than an objectified piece of meat. So I won't brush off the Jameson comic until I've given it a chance... But nothing about the press release, the story description, the cover artwork, or Jenna Jameson's previous track record with comics looks particularly promising.
I'll be over here in a corner reading Devi, Snakewoman, and Walk-In for my fix of awesome heroines from Virgin, thank you very much. Oh, and Ramayan for the beefcake, too.
Speaking of which, I haven't ordered my every-couple-of-months batch of Virgin comics in, well, a couple of months. Ah, but I have too much reading material piled in front of me right now, and am about to ship off on a long vacation, and my tiny Japanese village post office HATES having to hold my mail for me! (Yeah, I'm the annoying gaijin who keeps getting all of these shipments of books and comics from overseas and then is never at home to sign for said packages.)
