Women in Refrigerators is the term coined by Gail Simone to refer to the disturbing phenomenon of women in comic books being murdered or otherwise brutalized for no reason other than to provide an emotional stimulus to their superhero boyfriends or husbands (or sons, in one case that I can think of).
This Something Positive strip is the perfect antidote for WiR.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Gail deserves kudos forever for bringing Ice (one of the sweetest, most endearing heroines ever created) back from the Hades of her own WiR fate.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Though it was done in kind of a lame way.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Heh. No lamer than any other de-killing. She was killed off by a JLA foe nobody remembers in a story no one liked for reasons Mark Waid admits was some of the most wrong-headed of his career.
I'm just glad Tora's back. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I thought this was probably going to be a Something Positive thread. I think I've been enjoying the filler strips more than I have anything Randy's done in years.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I want more Super Stupor!
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: Heh. No lamer than any other de-killing. She was killed off by a JLA foe nobody remembers in a story no one liked for reasons Mark Waid admits was some of the most wrong-headed of his career.
I'm just glad Tora's back.
See, it totally reaffirms for me that I know absolutely nothing about comics when you guys post about a character I used to read regularly and I have to stop and ask, "......when the heck did Ice die? Was it before or after I started reading?"
(I was reading Justice League circa 1990 to about 1995.)
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
See, I knew nothing about Ice, because I stopped reading comics after Crisis (the one in '85). When I started again about 5 years ago (or whenever Identity Crisis came around), I had to catch up on the whole Parallax thing, and President Luthor, and a whole slew of things that made me regret starting up again. A little.
Ice was in the JLA during the goofy Giffen period, right? I hate-hate-hate goofy Giffen stuff. If it's got Ambush Bug in it, I won't read it. If it's goofy JLA, I don't care about it.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Do you think it's possible for superheroes to really exist? Like, might there be actual superheroes living anywhere, say, in our galaxy? If it's pure fiction, why does it seem so right? Why do folktales and stories in so many different cultures contain the same elements? I think it's a really interesting phenomenon, though I confess I've never kept up with comics.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
I've never seen this comic before, it's pretty good.
Ice was killed off in the late 90s under circumstances so lame I refuse to recall them.
But she's back!
Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
What's going on in the last panel? Who's the new guy in it?
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
What really blows my mind is that I've never heard of anyone doing the costumed vigilante thing in real life. I mean, if I were in good physical shape, which I'm not, and never will be, I could see trying it out.
But I've never even seen a story about such a person, even on really slow news days. That just strikes me as weird.
As far as superheroes with super powers... I doubt it. I think the reason people like those stories is the same as the reason why people used to believe in pantheons. After all, superheroes are just modern gods, no? Certainly they are in DC.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
It definitely taps into the same...something that folklore and myth do, that's for sure. Certainly, the reverence that I held for Spiderman as a small child bordered on being religious in nature.
I wondered when I was reading American Gods for the first time if we might not see a caped crusader or two gracing its pages, and was a little disappointed when none did.
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