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Phil’s Reviews #348: Gender-Friendly Comics
A few weeks ago, we were talking about comics for kids; this week, let’s talk about another underserved class of readers: girls and women. There’ve always been exceptions to the comics-are-for-guys meme — the Chris Claremont X-Men of the ’70s and ’80s, New Teen Titans in the ’80s, Sandman and a lot of Vertigo titles in the ’90s, and big chunks of the manga boom in the ’00s — but in the last two years we’ve seen both a new commitment by the big comics companies to attract a more diverse audience, and an explosion of female creators, both writers … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Autumnlands, Batgirl, Batman '66, Civil War, Clean Room, Deadpool, I Hate Fairyland, Inhumans, Jem, Justice League, Klaus, Lucifer, Lumberjanes, Ms. Marvel, Phonogram, Robin, Secret Six, Silk, Spider-man, Squadron Supreme, Squirrel Girl, Starbrand and Nightmask, Super Zero, Superman, The Wicked and the Divine, Thor, Ultimate End, Weirdworld, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #344
Ms. Marvel #1 — Writer: G. Willow Wilson; Art: Takeshi Miyazawa and Adrian Alphona; Colors: Ian Herring The Mighty Thor #1 — Writer: Jason Aaron; Art: Russell Dauterman; Colors: Matthew Wilson Spider-Woman #1 — Writer: Dennis Hopeless; Pencils/Colors: Javier Rodriguez; Inks: Alvaro Lopez Another week, and another seven first issues from Marvel — three of them with strong female leads. Ms. Marvel is one of the most anticipated; it’s consistently one of Marvel’s best-sellers in its trade collections and digital-download forms, which indicates it’s reaching a younger, more modern audience. It’s easy to see why, too — Wilson, who also … Continue reading
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Tagged Ant-Man, Astro City, Avengers, Batman, Bizarro, Black Knight, Captain America, Clean Room, Darth Vader, Hellboy, Huck, I Hate Fairyland, Inhumans, Lumberjanes, Martian Manhunter, Mighty Thor, Ms. Marvel, Phonogram, Pretty Deadly, Rachel Rising, Red Thorn, Secret Six, Spider-Woman, Star-Lord, Usagi Yojimbo, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #339
Marvel continues their new-issue rollout with seven first issues this week, plus three Secret Wars conclusions, some DC books, six indy debuts and the usual suspects. Let’s look: The New Avengers #1 — Writer: Al Ewing; Art: Gerardo Sandoval; Colors: Dono Sanchez Almara The Uncanny Avengers #1 — Writer: Gerry Duggan; Art: Ryan Stegman; Colors: Richard Isanove A couple of Avengers beginnings: New Avengers has a team run and financed by Robert DeCosta/Sunspot; he’s the new head of A.I.M. (long story), but now it stands for “Avengers Idea Mechanics,” and they have their own island off the coast of California … Continue reading
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Tagged Avengers, Batman, Bombshells, Captain America, Chewbacca, Cursed Pirate Girl, Goon, Guardians of the Galaxy, I Hate Fairyland, Lois and Clark, Low, Lumberjanes, Phonogram, Rebels, Secret Wars, Sex Criminals, Spider-man, Switch, Twilight Children, Wicked and the Divine
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