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drsevarius (drsevarius) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-04 14:44:00

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char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: joker, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: starfire/koriand'r, creator: joe bennett, creator: marc andreyko

Dick and Babs: Awkward!

This is from Nightwing Annual #2 by Marc Andreyko and Joe Bennett

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04nbod
2009-09-04 10:58 pm UTC (link)

It takes away from her skill, her empathy and her character.Be it real life or fiction western culture has a built in system of value and a character like Kory and how she is portrayed would be considered superficial and of low value. She's the Angelina Jolie of super-heroes. (good professional, does great humanitarian work but a bizarre woman and a 'homewrecker' at the same time) Its not a character I want to read about. There is only so many times you can get Kory into trouble because she's too good looking, its tiresome. I don't think a character who is sexy and enjoys sex needs sex as a part of every storyline and doesn't really have to look like kory. In the end do I really need a super-hero who is good in bed and not afraid to shout about it?

I would argue that most super-heroes are either what young men want to be or who they want to be with. Is there a character specifically created to be a female fantasy? Buffy maybe? Wonder woman, definitely not. Supergirl and Mary Marvel, you can argue it but have they drifted into a male fantasy area with countdown for Mary especially.Any characters created for women to lust after?

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freddylloyd
2009-09-05 03:06 am UTC (link)

I don't think a character who is sexy and enjoys sex needs sex as a part of every storyline

I can think of one scripter who's tried to play up other aspects of Kory. In his Teen Titans run, Geoff Johns highlighted her straightforwardness—criticizing Superman, learning to lie—and her nostalgia for home. Beast Boy made some leering mentions of her sexiness for old times' sake, but Kory wasn't in a romantic relationship, and none of the other principals of that book dared to start one.

But after a while Johns realized he was making Kory nothing more than a strict camp counselor for the kids, with no plot of her own, and he gladly sent her off to the Outsiders. Where, I guess, she could get enmeshed with Dick and be fully sexual again. It was, after all, an adult book.

I don't think a character who is sexy and enjoys sex...doesn't really have to look like kory.

Such a character in superhero comics would have to look sexy, though, since characters through their looks and costuming embody their defining ideas and qualities. Does "sexy" mean curvaceous, big-eyed, big-haired, and half-naked? Well, that would get the plurality of male votes. And, as you say, males seem to dominate in this precinct.

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