Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
Bevan Thomas
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Something I think about a lot is how both STAR WARS and RAIDERS were conceived by Lucas and Spielberg as intentionally cheesy — even-to-the-point-of-parody — throwbacks to old adventure serials but made them so well that audiences five decades ago and now unironically appreciate them as drama
Was it Michael Eisner who once said, "We make money, not art?"
Elasti-Girl’s size & power strongly contrasts Marvel’s female superheroes of the 1960s. As famed cartoonist/historian Trina Robbins observes, Marvel’s 60s superheroines generally shrink & disappear while possessing non-physical “strike-a-pose-and-point” powers. 10/11
But the most dynamic images of Elasti-Girl from the early Doom Patrol comics involve her growing to tremendous sizes. She often towers over skyscrapers while carrying her male teammates, playing with missiles & tanks like toys. 6/11
As Madrid observes, Elasti-Girl was not, sadly, the quintessential superheroine of the 60s; she was an outlier, not the norm. But that’s exactly why she deserves greater recognition. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, Rita Farr was a woman with little regard for ceilings. 11/11
Where most female superheroes of the 60s are either inspired by (and subordinate to) male heroes or “transformed into a heroine as a result of the work & machinations of the older men in their lives” (Madrid), Elasti-Girl/Rita Farr’s story & powers are (largely) her own. 2/11
050 - Hammer
"Eisenhower Hammer" is one HELL of a name.
It feels like a missed opportunity to have Dan Brereton paint every Six Packer BUT Hammer.
#TradingCardADay #FUXM1 #XMen #SixPack #JohnVanFleet
When you think about all the oppression the Irish have faced. Hundreds of years of genocide attempts from the English, and all the prejudice Irish immigrants faced in North America... Seeing this makes me feel sick
TBT: In “The Supergirls,” Mike Madrid writes of #DoomPatrol’s Elasti-Girl, “She is an emancipated superheroine, with strength and power to put her on part with her male counterparts.” In the 1960s, Elasti-Girl was almost unique in this regard, pushing boundaries & making space. 1/11
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I feel like we all sort of have this idea of "A Mummy movie" where he shambles after his victims and it's just a stag reel of deaths but there really aren't many like that? at least not many GOOD ones anyway? certainly none with modern FX which is a shame cause I WISH we got one with THIS mummy
Every time we call out a corp for using AI in their title art and they're like "No! We didn- ok, well just a little, but we didn't mean it-"
It's like... this is your cover art. We saw the issues in ten seconds. Why didn't you look at your own cover art for ten seconds?
Why don't you care at all?
