I was cleaning through my inbox and found this and was all, argh, how did I never answer this and so I am giving it a go now um lo these many years later, sorry if it makes no sense and/or you no longer care about the subject. ;)
I am still so bummed over Gert. And the worse thing is, Brian Vaughn is ALWAYS doing this, creating awesome characters that I love and adore and then killing them in ways that seem stupid and pointless and sour me on whatever series it is he happens to be writing (UM. I may still be excessively bitter about Y the Last Man D:) But admittedly I am not up on the new team (I think the guys who started right after Joss?) so maybe they've done something to rectify, I dunno.
Nico/Karolina vs. Karolina/Xavin was one of the storylines that drives me NUTS. One couple has awesome natural chemistry and seems like they'd be really good for each other, the other feels kind of forced and all over the place and includes some skeevy gender/sexuality issues and yet I have the feeling that Nico/Karolina isn't going to go anywhere (partially this argh is also based on the rumor that Terry Moore's run was going to have a male only Xavin, which is such a weirdness to me because as I recall Karolina does explicitly call herself a lesbian, I think? And thus having her involved with a character who identifies as a man is really, ugh. Which I felt less of when they were playing more along the lines of Skrull gender is weird and undefined and maybe either/or, which yes, Xavin is an ALIEN so why not go there? But I shouldn't be bad mouthing the new team without reading what they actually did, so.)
Um, not really? I dunno, Terry Moore gets tons of GLBT props for Strangers in Paradise and yet in the little of it I've read (a trade or two) the female characters spent more time being involved with men than each other and I think their relationship is often more of a triangle involving this one guy and I found the series to be too melodramatic and kind of a let down, but again, I didn't read all of it and you might take it differently, so if you do end up reading and liking it, let me know!
Actually the best lesbian comic I've ever read was called Dykes to Watch Out For, although it's a strip based comic, rather than issues/graphic novels. And I read it probably eight or so years ago (and many of them were written much earlier then that), so it might come off as a bit dated, but I remember just really enjoying it, beyond even the omg queer characters yay! (it's by Alison Bechdel, she whom the Bechdel test is named after)
And this rambling post wouldn't be complete without an attempt to pimp what I think is the best female comic running - Wonder Woman. Seriously, it is so so good at the moment and for the first time in the history of it's run being regularly written by a woman (Gail Simone, who is awesome) and it includes SO many female dominated storylines that I just chortle happily (and she has real friendships with women and is so brave and awesome and heroic).
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Date: 2010-01-03 10:43 am (UTC)I am still so bummed over Gert. And the worse thing is, Brian Vaughn is ALWAYS doing this, creating awesome characters that I love and adore and then killing them in ways that seem stupid and pointless and sour me on whatever series it is he happens to be writing (UM. I may still be excessively bitter about Y the Last Man D:) But admittedly I am not up on the new team (I think the guys who started right after Joss?) so maybe they've done something to rectify, I dunno.
Nico/Karolina vs. Karolina/Xavin was one of the storylines that drives me NUTS. One couple has awesome natural chemistry and seems like they'd be really good for each other, the other feels kind of forced and all over the place and includes some skeevy gender/sexuality issues and yet I have the feeling that Nico/Karolina isn't going to go anywhere (partially this argh is also based on the rumor that Terry Moore's run was going to have a male only Xavin, which is such a weirdness to me because as I recall Karolina does explicitly call herself a lesbian, I think? And thus having her involved with a character who identifies as a man is really, ugh. Which I felt less of when they were playing more along the lines of Skrull gender is weird and undefined and maybe either/or, which yes, Xavin is an ALIEN so why not go there? But I shouldn't be bad mouthing the new team without reading what they actually did, so.)
Um, not really? I dunno, Terry Moore gets tons of GLBT props for Strangers in Paradise and yet in the little of it I've read (a trade or two) the female characters spent more time being involved with men than each other and I think their relationship is often more of a triangle involving this one guy and I found the series to be too melodramatic and kind of a let down, but again, I didn't read all of it and you might take it differently, so if you do end up reading and liking it, let me know!
Actually the best lesbian comic I've ever read was called Dykes to Watch Out For, although it's a strip based comic, rather than issues/graphic novels. And I read it probably eight or so years ago (and many of them were written much earlier then that), so it might come off as a bit dated, but I remember just really enjoying it, beyond even the omg queer characters yay! (it's by Alison Bechdel, she whom the Bechdel test is named after)
And this rambling post wouldn't be complete without an attempt to pimp what I think is the best female comic running - Wonder Woman. Seriously, it is so so good at the moment and for the first time in the history of it's run being regularly written by a woman (Gail Simone, who is awesome) and it includes SO many female dominated storylines that I just chortle happily (and she has real friendships with women and is so brave and awesome and heroic).
ANYWAY.