Maths IS hard.

Lol.

Belittling and insulting women who are pretty / pose in pinup poses as being stupid.

Lol.

Sexism has never been so funny.

No, nevermind. CONSPIRACY!

Must I? Hmm, I wonder what it is about me that my mind didn’t go there as an automatic response.

“Well, it certainly doesn’t help when DC keeps shoving that cover art IN OUR FACES ALL THE TIME.”

Well, if you’d have not quoted me out of context, you’d be able to read why I think that is, wouldn’t you? I’ll just write it again, for the benefit of those who don’t want to go back and read it. Regardless if people say they do want something or don’t want something, as long as people are talking, DC will give us more of it. That’s why “Heck, they’re so proud of that cover, it’s now gracing the opening page of their website.” You feed the fire with your outrage KET, just like I feed it with my interest in the phenomena feeds it, and The Beat posting it fanned the flames here to start with. If you really want to fight this sort of thing, then you’re going to have to stop fighting it, and start supporting something you approve of. That’s the only why you’re gonna change things.

You must be the only one. I had already read this same response several times across the Internet, so it wasn’t an unusual reaction among the fanboys. As if this incarnation of SG wasn’t already being portrayed by DC as a JAILBAIT SEX SYMBOL….

“The thing that’s really cracking me up at this point is that this cover has garnered more attention than any cover we ALL would approve of.”

Well, it certainly doesn’t help when DC keeps shoving that cover art IN OUR FACES ALL THE TIME. Heck, they’re so proud of that cover, it’s now gracing the opening page of their website. Wall-to-wall HYPE sells, don’tcha know…

…although I do find the technique ironic when the character’s solo book now needs to piggy-back her cousin’s in order to sell.

There might be a law, similar to Murphy’s, that the number of comments a blog posting generates are inversely proportional to it’s actual significance. I’ll have to work out the math on that one. Math is hard.

But in general, “Snarky” is easier than “Sincere.” “Snide” is easier than “Sad.” Sex sells. And there isn’t anything sexy in the death of a child.

The death of a child (and at 20, that’s still a child; much, much too young) leaves us at a loss for words. What can anyone say, especially not knowing the family personally? “Wow! That’s sad,” seems so empty, trite, shallow. Near meaningless.

I’ve known Supergirl for 40 years. She died. I was sad, but confident that it wouldn’t last. I’ve known about Robbie Greenberger for about 3 days. Mike Gold has a very touching tribute to Robbie over at ComicMix.com. He’s known and worked with Robert. Knew Robbie his whole life. His words are better than mine.

http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/08/18/the-real-world-by-mike-gold/

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Robbie’s memory may be made to The Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511-3202 (www.tommyfund.org).

Look at the big splash page when the new “All Star Squadron” is being gathered…she’s looking with uncertainty to their leader as he’s trying to reassure them before the “big fight” they will so obviously lose; in the crowd shot, Supergirl is there facing their leader (I think its Jay Garrick) and has her hand to her face in a way that looks like it is a second away from moving into the same pose as in the cover. She was supposed to represent the entire issue’s sense of uncertainty and anxiety. Surprised no one else is catching this neat little trick (I’ve only read the issue once), using the cover as a close-up for a minor detail inside a splash page.

I do think the cover pose is a little bit “off” in what they’re trying to communicate to us (she doesn’t need to come across as that stupid and vacant looking), but still, it is a neat narrative trick, giving resonance to a small moment that would otherwise go almost unnoticed, really helps imply a “life” to the characters, even when they are not front and center.

http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-My-Math-Showing-Pre-Algebra/dp/1594630496/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219069076&sr=8-1

Yes that is Winnie Cooper from Wonder Years.

Yeah, but I enjoy silly banter. It relaxes me. Oh, and Alan… Very good point.

I have to admit, that never occurred to me. The thing that’s really cracking me up at this point is that this cover has garnered more attention then any cover we ALL would approve of. Weather you focus your energy for it or against it, it’s still getting all the attention. May I suggest someone point out a cover that they think is wonderful, so we can all think of ways of getting more of that. You know DC’s just going to do more covers like this, because people talk (and post and re-post the image) when they do. Then they all get hostile with each other, instead of the company that published it. It’s a win/win for them.

(I personally think that it’s a very nice image that happens to be very easily read-into. Also the whole finger thing kinda makes me think Supergirl is bulimic. Go figure.)

Because she looks like she’s learning fellatio from her pimp.

“It goes…here?”

I’m sure she is and, as such, deserves better than having to obey the rules of an organization that has a MAXIMUM coverage limit, in order to participate. Swimsuits are fine, it is a beach sport after all, but bikinis of only a certain coverage? Excuse me?

Plenty of people (of both genders) wear shorts and tank tops to play on the beach, so why is the women’s team REQUIRED to wear as little fabric a possible?

Do a Google on “women’s beach volleyball” and see just how much of the photography is concentrated, not on the sport, but on ass-shots, then tell me who’s being harsh.

the amount of posts anywhere isn’t considered that something is more or less important.

I can speak for the unspoken majority that we all feel for bob and his families loss.

I dont think a single person that posted here feels any other way.

They said the same about El Woods.

“It plays to an obvious archetype that only some one completely unschooled in western iconagraphy would miss.”

It’s a little late to shoot us down before we get off the ground, isn’t it?

“Heidi’s headline is ironic , also clever, and assumes she has a reasonably well educated audience.”

That it is, and yes we are. Thank you.

“I guarantee you the artist knrw exactly what he was doing.”

Maybe he or she thought it’d be an interesting dynamic. Still, all good points. I’m just not feeling the outrage on this one.