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So Rolling Stone had this interview with COMIC WRITER SUPERSTAR!!1!1* Grant Morrison and it was pretty strange because hey, Grant Morrison. But it did have a lot of good stuff, including one of my personal favorite pastimes: bitching about Alan Moore.
There's been lots of things, the sexism in DC because it's mostly men who work in these places. Nobody should be trying to say we're taking up a specifically anti-woman stance. ... I was reading some Alan Moore Marvelman for some reason today. I found one in the back there and I couldn't believe. I pick it up and there are fucking two rapes in it and I suddenly think how many times has somebody been raped in an Alan Moore story? And I couldn't find a single one where someone wasn't raped except for Tom Strong, which I believe was a pastiche. We know Alan Moore isn't a misogynist but fuck, he's obsessed with rape.
And I was all HELLS YEAH MORRISON THANKS FOR GETTING IT! I mean I enjoyed The Watchmen like all the other hipster douchebags but just because I thought it was mostly good doesn't mean Moore gets a pass on all the fucking rapey shit. For reals, if I have to suffer through one more comic fandouche defending the way the Comedian/Silk Spectre I plot went down imma kick their teeth in. Yeah, there is a lot of stuff that 'had to happen' to make Watchmen work the way it did but, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Trying to redeem to your pregnant woman-murdering rapist by justifying his rape attempt as misguided ~love~ and then having his victim be like 'oh well if that's the case i guess i can sleep with you this one time' and then, AND THEN to have that encounter indirectly save the world by convincing an evolved version of humanity that love is like, weird and unpredictable and shit is just. I don't even.
So anyway I was mentally fist-pumping because seriously, Moore could use some people going 'jfc guy, can you maybe step back and reconsider all of this raping,' and then Morrison ruined everything with this:
I managed to do thirty years in comics without any rape!
WHAT. WHAT WHAT WHAT. DUDE DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER CRAZY JANE? You gave her GODDAMN SUPERPOWERS BECAUSE SHE WAS RAPED. And yeah, I know, Crazy Jane was significantly better developed and her sexual abuse backstory was far better integrated than most of Moore's characters, but just because she is a superior portrayal doesn't mean her story was entirely without problems, problems that I just might have to rant about in another post, because that's not even an isolated case. *coughBATMANcough*
I wouldn't have had so much of a problem with this if Morrison had just ended before the fucking "30 YEARS WITHOUT RAPE!" pat-on-the-back that he totally doesn't deserve. fffffffffuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk why are so many comic book writers completely clueless about how badly they write sensitive issues--OH WAIT maybe that's why they're writing comic books? uuughgh I don't like coming off as such a snooty douchebag, but seriously, it's kind of amazing how outrageously bad mainstream comics are when it comes to dealing with women and diversity and modern issues in general. And then comic writers and editors are legitimately PROUD of what they are producing and wondering why they can't attract new readers when the stories and art are 'so much better!' than back in the day, which is true, but telling better stories than, idk 70s era comics is aiming your sights pretty low. The amount of standard lowering I find myself doing for comics is frankly embarrassing at times. I'm not a consistent reader of monthly or superhero comics despite liking a lot of the characters, and part of the reason is because it's hard to justify a lot of the crap that goes on in the name of ~drama~. (The other reasons would be the ancient distribution system which makes it unnecessarily difficult for me to keep up with books despite having two excellent LCS to choose from, the prohibitive costs that start piling up when following more than say, 3 books a month, and...god why is anyone still following comics? and when did i get so bitter about them? ._.)
despite everything, I am probably going to pick up Morrison's run on Action Comics because a) I loved All-Star Superman, b) the artwork so far looks great and c) my LCS is doing a fantastic promotion where you can return any of the new DC books for a refund if you end up hating it. (Which reminds me that I should take another look at the other books and see if there's anything else I'm willing to at least take a chance on...)
anyway, have an angry Kagura gif for surviving this slightly incoherent rant.
*HAHAHAHA I KNOW
There's been lots of things, the sexism in DC because it's mostly men who work in these places. Nobody should be trying to say we're taking up a specifically anti-woman stance. ... I was reading some Alan Moore Marvelman for some reason today. I found one in the back there and I couldn't believe. I pick it up and there are fucking two rapes in it and I suddenly think how many times has somebody been raped in an Alan Moore story? And I couldn't find a single one where someone wasn't raped except for Tom Strong, which I believe was a pastiche. We know Alan Moore isn't a misogynist but fuck, he's obsessed with rape.
And I was all HELLS YEAH MORRISON THANKS FOR GETTING IT! I mean I enjoyed The Watchmen like all the other hipster douchebags but just because I thought it was mostly good doesn't mean Moore gets a pass on all the fucking rapey shit. For reals, if I have to suffer through one more comic fandouche defending the way the Comedian/Silk Spectre I plot went down imma kick their teeth in. Yeah, there is a lot of stuff that 'had to happen' to make Watchmen work the way it did but, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Trying to redeem to your pregnant woman-murdering rapist by justifying his rape attempt as misguided ~love~ and then having his victim be like 'oh well if that's the case i guess i can sleep with you this one time' and then, AND THEN to have that encounter indirectly save the world by convincing an evolved version of humanity that love is like, weird and unpredictable and shit is just. I don't even.
So anyway I was mentally fist-pumping because seriously, Moore could use some people going 'jfc guy, can you maybe step back and reconsider all of this raping,' and then Morrison ruined everything with this:
I managed to do thirty years in comics without any rape!
WHAT. WHAT WHAT WHAT. DUDE DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER CRAZY JANE? You gave her GODDAMN SUPERPOWERS BECAUSE SHE WAS RAPED. And yeah, I know, Crazy Jane was significantly better developed and her sexual abuse backstory was far better integrated than most of Moore's characters, but just because she is a superior portrayal doesn't mean her story was entirely without problems, problems that I just might have to rant about in another post, because that's not even an isolated case. *coughBATMANcough*
I wouldn't have had so much of a problem with this if Morrison had just ended before the fucking "30 YEARS WITHOUT RAPE!" pat-on-the-back that he totally doesn't deserve. fffffffffuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk why are so many comic book writers completely clueless about how badly they write sensitive issues--OH WAIT maybe that's why they're writing comic books? uuughgh I don't like coming off as such a snooty douchebag, but seriously, it's kind of amazing how outrageously bad mainstream comics are when it comes to dealing with women and diversity and modern issues in general. And then comic writers and editors are legitimately PROUD of what they are producing and wondering why they can't attract new readers when the stories and art are 'so much better!' than back in the day, which is true, but telling better stories than, idk 70s era comics is aiming your sights pretty low. The amount of standard lowering I find myself doing for comics is frankly embarrassing at times. I'm not a consistent reader of monthly or superhero comics despite liking a lot of the characters, and part of the reason is because it's hard to justify a lot of the crap that goes on in the name of ~drama~. (The other reasons would be the ancient distribution system which makes it unnecessarily difficult for me to keep up with books despite having two excellent LCS to choose from, the prohibitive costs that start piling up when following more than say, 3 books a month, and...god why is anyone still following comics? and when did i get so bitter about them? ._.)
despite everything, I am probably going to pick up Morrison's run on Action Comics because a) I loved All-Star Superman, b) the artwork so far looks great and c) my LCS is doing a fantastic promotion where you can return any of the new DC books for a refund if you end up hating it. (Which reminds me that I should take another look at the other books and see if there's anything else I'm willing to at least take a chance on...)
anyway, have an angry Kagura gif for surviving this slightly incoherent rant.
*HAHAHAHA I KNOW
