Comic Book Rundown

Batwoman Is Back... as a Lesbian???

"Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet. DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year.

...'This is not just about having a gay character,' DiDio said. 'We're trying for overall diversity in the DC universe. We have strong African-American, Hispanic and Asian characters. We're trying to get a better cross-section of our readership and the world.'"

Diversity, eh? Are they going to bring Superman back Chinese? Perhaps Aquaman should come back as a Hassidic Jew? Maybe "diversity" is just code for "minorities we like."

I'm still trying to figure out how in MTV's Real World, every season features 7 people, with one spot reserved for the token gay. Now I'm not sure if MTV claims that the casts are a representative sampling of the population, but assuming that they do, that'd make homosexuals roughly 14% of the population. Now, also assuming that homosexuality is a genetic condition, that would mean that 14% of the species population are exclusively non-reproducing. That would make God...nature... a poor inefficient designer.

but I digress...I was talking about comics..

X-men 3: Action-packed but also horribly melodramatic
So I saw Xmen:The Last Stand last week. Honestly it was not as good as the previous 2 movies, but the movie was still entertaining notwithstanding. Though, like the cartoon and comic book, there become too many X-men for any character to be developed properly. Angel, who got so many oohs and ahhs in the trailers perhaps had about 6 lines of dialogue. Same goes for Colossus. Meanwhile, the constant sexual tension between Jean Grey and Wolverine drags on though I can't really remember any serious dialogue between the two (other than about said sexual tension) during the course of the three movies. Lastly, I never really understood the mutant cause being portrayed as a 21st Century Abolition/Civil Rights movement. If I see a man can manipulate metal with his mind, my first reaction is "hey that's cool, try bending this spoon..." and not "I HATE YOU...DIE DIE DIE."

Coming 2007...Ghostrider
Now that Marvel is scraping characters from the bottom of the barrel to put onto the big screen, the next offering will be Ghostrider. Though I loved the Rock and Con-Air, Nicolas Cage is getting much too old for this. Anyway, I'm not saying the movie is going to be bad, but I get the same vibes when I watch the trailer here, then watch the parody trailer for the fictitious Pac-man movie here

"It's some sort of man...some sort of...Pac..Man.."