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This has been stuck in my head today.
May. 13th, 2006 06:36 pmSometimes, comic books (or graphic novels or whatnot) are the right medium for the story someone is trying to tell. No different from the short story, the screenplay, the shadown puppet script, or whatever. I thought a story worked best as pictures and words, and I didn't own a video camera, so it's a comic book, or graphic novel, but it strikes me as a defensive term.
I sometimes like drawings of attractive people posing.
My characters may be the kind to become pin-ups, but others are not. Some of the uninterested are the main characters.
Some of the characters are old and show it, others have disfigurements from injury or poor health care, some of them are scrawny or fat. However, they are the center of the story because of they have the sort of conflicts and hopes that drive stories.
So, I read a post concerning really extreme cheesecake and fanboys not getting that this is really annoying. Like someone carrying on a conversation with your chest or something.
Their argument is "why is it such a shock to realize that comic books are designed to be read by the 13-30 male demographic". They are the main readers of comic books, after all. Anything else: "a bunch of witch hunters and gulag enterpreneurs"
That strikes me as even more insulting. So, the men who read this medium don't go for the stories, but go for pictures of grown women they have never seen up close and without clothing? And because I don't like it either, I'm the man-hating hag?
Maybe it's confusing the medium for the genre. Superhero comics is just one part though the best known part of the medium. I tend to care more about having characters do things that would be natural to them. If it's prancing around in their underwear, sure. I figure that contributes more to a story than just putting in close-ups of butts.
I sometimes like drawings of attractive people posing.
My characters may be the kind to become pin-ups, but others are not. Some of the uninterested are the main characters.
Some of the characters are old and show it, others have disfigurements from injury or poor health care, some of them are scrawny or fat. However, they are the center of the story because of they have the sort of conflicts and hopes that drive stories.
So, I read a post concerning really extreme cheesecake and fanboys not getting that this is really annoying. Like someone carrying on a conversation with your chest or something.
Their argument is "why is it such a shock to realize that comic books are designed to be read by the 13-30 male demographic". They are the main readers of comic books, after all. Anything else: "a bunch of witch hunters and gulag enterpreneurs"
That strikes me as even more insulting. So, the men who read this medium don't go for the stories, but go for pictures of grown women they have never seen up close and without clothing? And because I don't like it either, I'm the man-hating hag?
Maybe it's confusing the medium for the genre. Superhero comics is just one part though the best known part of the medium. I tend to care more about having characters do things that would be natural to them. If it's prancing around in their underwear, sure. I figure that contributes more to a story than just putting in close-ups of butts.
