WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??

[brooms]

Tom Brevoort has a Formspring and he's actually pretty good at answering questions.

In his most recent batch of replies, he tackled things like the recent CATWOMAN/STARFIRE controversy and why Gambit isn't invited to more poker games.














(If you don't remember her, go here.)

Comments

[abriel]

"Marvel does a better job of avoiding it..."? What Marvel books has that person read? What about Dark Avengers where Moonstone was being passed around by all the guys on the team? What about how Tigra was treated much, much earlier in West Coast Avengers? And what about Emma Frost and her various clothes (and lack of) throughout the years?

[salinea]

Cammi!!! How are you going on the cosmos alone without your pet homicidal badass guy! I worry for you.

[q99]

"I don't think our industry puts it's best foot forward when it comes to the depiction of women" - You can say that again :)

[cyberghostface]

But it's alright for Spider-Man to have done...well, pretty much everything after OMD, Tom? (I was going to make a list, but then I realized that would take too long)

[filthysize]

I'm gonna be honest, here, the whole thing about a popular Teen Titans cartoon with a non-sexualized depiction of Starfire being an argument as to why it's so awful to sexualize her (like the one Shortpacked and that Gawker article made) strikes me as rather baffling. Other arguments may have merit, but I just can't understand that one. Why should DC be in any way obligated to align their books accordingly to pacify the audience of a family-friendly spin-off media? It's not like they took an innocent character from a kids show and sexed her up; it's the other way around.

It's irrelevant to Red Hood and the Outlaws how popular Teen Titans! is, and saying that there's a potential fanbase being left out (kids) isn't even a good argument for why it should go after those audience figures--isn't that the exact same excuse hacks use when they tone down their originally R-rated movies to PG-13? No, I'm not saying Red Hood is automatically a better book when it has sexy, violent content (I'm not interested in Lobdell's take on these characters either way), but if that's the type of book it wants to be and they want to attract an older audience for a book about mercenaries, I don't see why abandoning the Teen Titans! fans is being made into such a fuss.

[thanekos]

So that's why Rulk gets to sit in; he DOESN'T eat all the dip!

[don1138]

I commented elsewhere that Marvel Disney's gradual evolution of Wolverine from psycho-berzerker to family-friendly icon has been handled gracefully over the last several years (maybe since he joined the Avengers). I have even come to approve of the way they "sexed up" Squirrel Girl (my fave femme hero) without the crassness of going full-Starfire on her.

Notwithstanding the above-cited (and non-cited) "petit-fridging" of females in Marvel and in comics in general, IMHO Marvel Disney seems to manage their properties SO much better than DC the WB marketing department does.

As an aside, does anyone else enjoy the irony that Image-style comics sprang from Marvel-style comics, and have now consumed and regurgitated DC comics?

[eyz]

The part about Marvel taking the issue better or not..is disputable. Sounds more like a comment out of a Marvel fanboy. Both good and bad examples can be easily pointed out at both companies.
Naaaah, I'd say "Vertigo" maybe does a much better job than both these. (Yes! Yes, I know it's part of DC/WB, but I was speaking publishing-brand-wise)

[karthzon]

Focusing on the scans (specifically scan 1 panel 1): The Kree have obviously played the Gears of War games.