Another one gone

RIP Graham Joyce

Thanx to Making Light.

Not just another reboot

What could make a third Ghostbusters worthwhile

Thanx to Tor.com.

Perspective

Kid, if you have "forty years of experience" but you think that comic book covers depict women realistically, it's time to drop the pencil and maybe … go out and meet a few? Of course, comic books are hardly the worst media offenders with regard to horrifying displays of the female body. That honor goes to glossy "women's magazines" and the fashion industry to which they cater.

Thanx to Popehat

Contrast

Of course a wife beater cannot hold down an important job like NFL running back. On the other hand, federal judges…

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

Thinking more about Joan Rivers

She really was a trail blazer, and like Jackie Robinson, she shouldn't have had to do it and she paid a price. She was allowed to be a Female Comic, but she had to follow the rules: She couldn't be Too Pretty, but she couldn't simply be unattractive; she had to try and fail--the makeup, the hair color, the diets, eventually the disastrous plastic surgery--and she had to mock herself for failing. She also had to police the other women and not let them get away with having too much food or sex. It was a shit deal, and she could have handled it worse, and she really did move the sticks. Today's female comics and their audiences should be grateful.

And I love the title

Tricia Sullivan, at her colleague Charles Stross's blog, on martial arts