SO HEY, YOU GUYS! Catwoman #1 came out this week, written by Judd Winick. It's one of a few female-led books DC are publishing as part of their relaunch, along with Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Voodoo. This also happens to be the same week that Batman #1 comes out. So baring in mind that not everyone who reads Catwoman is going to be reading Batman, this issue needs to establish its protagonist both as her own person and in relation to the Dark Knight. Winick needed to make it clear what kind of anti-hero Catwoman is, and what her thoughts on Batman - the man who inspired her to be who she is - might be.
And boy, did it ever sort of manage to achieve that task! The issue concludes with an on-panel sex scene between Batman and Catwoman, in which she straddles him while they both wear their costumes.
Honestly.
Now this is quite a big thing, no pun intended, to show in a mainstream comic. That you're meant to be pitching at new readers, many of them young. And it's an especially notable event when the comic happens to be one of a small handful of female-lead comics being published by the mainstream comic-book industry despite more and more female fans signing up to wordpress every day to express both their breast-ownership and enjoyment of Gambit stories.
Honestly.
Now this is quite a big thing, no pun intended, to show in a mainstream comic. That you're meant to be pitching at new readers, many of them young. And it's an especially notable event when the comic happens to be one of a small handful of female-lead comics being published by the mainstream comic-book industry despite more and more female fans signing up to wordpress every day to express both their breast-ownership and enjoyment of Gambit stories.
It also comes a few months after a massive row broke out at San Diego Comic-Con because fans felt that DC weren't employing enough female creators. And it also comes only a few months after Comics Alliance, Comics Beat, and several other blogs (many of them featuring the suffix "-girl") had endless discussions about the perceived 'boys-club' mentality of the industry, which targets a young male demographic and leaves female comic-book fans twisting in the wind.
So after all that happened online, DC have still decided that they're going to go ahead and publish this sequence. Needless to say, people are starting to gather their pitchforks and storm to the blogs. Marvel could have literally strangled Ms Marvel with a thong, and nobody would have noticed in the stampede to complain about Catwoman. I'm not underselling the impact this scene is going to have - the internet is going to be really upset, you guys. Especially Scans Daily. Expect riotous anger to erupt over the next few days once Laura Hudson finishes gathering her thoughts.
So after all that happened online, DC have still decided that they're going to go ahead and publish this sequence. Needless to say, people are starting to gather their pitchforks and storm to the blogs. Marvel could have literally strangled Ms Marvel with a thong, and nobody would have noticed in the stampede to complain about Catwoman. I'm not underselling the impact this scene is going to have - the internet is going to be really upset, you guys. Especially Scans Daily. Expect riotous anger to erupt over the next few days once Laura Hudson finishes gathering her thoughts.
2 comments:
Prude.
This is an outrage. DC has gone too far.
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