Sturges on his Power Girl Two-Issue Arc

[turtlefu]

So, Matt Sturges is going to write two issues of Power Girl. Now, I am so happy Winick is off the book, even temporarily, but his comments on the nature of the arc seem to worry me.

Read for yourself.

So, what do you guys think?

 I feel like if, as a man, he knows he's basically going to be talking out of his ass on female empowerment, then he shouldn't do it in the first place. They should have gotten a female writer, somebody who actually knows what female empowerment IS, to write it.

It's not about him writing an empowered woman (even though I do think a man can't possibly know what makes a woman empowered). It's that his tone seems to think that this is him telling woman how to be empowered, and I really dislike that a man could be so conceited as to think that he can tell a woman how to be empowered. After all, you know there is going to be a moment where Peej makes a speech to the other women about "how to be their own superheroes" and obviously its Sturges talking.

For legality, the cover of his first issue:

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

Passion doesn't mean it's going to be great, sure, but until we actually have the book in our hands, there isn't much else to go by. Plus, to me, having passion for something is typically not a bad sign to go by as to whether that person will do a good job or not.

[stubbleupdate]

Isn't Sturges the Blue Beetle writer? I would have thought that his pedigree would be more encouraging than his passion.

[darkknightjrk]

So he did. Honestly, Blue Beetle's one of those series that I've read bits of but never completed.

[batman]

The first twenty-five issues were by Giffen and John Rogers, later John Rogers on his own, and the endgame for the first arc is the best thing I have ever read in a comic.

[batman]

You mean in the Blue Beetle run he wrote where he fridged someone?

Yeah. His pedigree does not impress me. I loved the first 25 issues, so the fact that he went and fridged a character in the last issue of his first run annoyed me. (Don't get me started how in every ending arc "THE SCARAB GOES EVIL" thus undoing all of Khaji Da's development)