I'll start with an update as to why my posting has been so erratic lately.
You know my mother had an accident, needed surgery, and she is still recovering, but her recovery's happening faster than anyone expected, and she's been moved to a hospital close to home.
The great irony is that while she's recovering, I caught a cold. Which was really inconvenient, but I'm recovering from that now, so hopefully everything is heading for sunshine and smiles.
So let's get to work with my usual snarking and griping…
SUPERGIRL'S SUPERSUIT
DC/Warner Bros. has revealed the look they'll be using for Melissa Benoist's upcoming turn as Supergirl on CBS.
I have to say that I'm shocked an appalled by this costume.
Where is the gross, sleazy, hyper-sexualized costume we've come to expect from the last 20 years of comics costume design?
This outfit looks almost as practical as you can get when it comes to a super heroine's outfit.
We can't allow that, some chick might see it and develop enough self-esteem to see a future for herself as something other than a sex object.
(That's what you call satire)
VALIANT GETS INTO MOVIES
Valiant Entertainment was started by a group of comics creators and investors after their bid to take over Marvel was outbid. The company enjoyed some success during the boom times of the 1990s, and was bought out by video-game maker Acclaim. Acclaim went bankrupt and for a while everyone thought that was it for Valiant.
Not quite.
New owners came in and began rebuilding the company and its comics properties from the ground up. That work seems to be paying since Beijing based DMG Entertainment is ponying up a "nine figure" investment in the company to develop movie and TV franchises based on their characters.
Now some may poo-poo the idea since Valiant's roster doesn't have the same household-name status in the zeitgeist as Batman, Superman, or Spider-Man.
I say that's not as big a problem as you might think.
Iron Man was considered a "C-List" Marvel character and starred Robert Downey Jr., an actor that everyone considered washed up and quite possibly box office poison. No one thinks that anymore because Marvel's raked in BILLIONS thanks to the doors Iron Man opened for them.
Valiant seems to be watching and modelling themselves after Marvel. Which means that they'll be selling them not as familiar brands, but on the promise of delivering a quality entertaining story that's packed full of action and opens doors for even more quality entertaining stories.
It's a big promise, and Valiant is going to have to burn serious calories to deliver. However, if they do pull it off the rewards could be enormous, and could break the Marvel/DC duopoly that dominates big screen movies.
So I wish them good luck. The business needs competition to stay vibrant, so the more the merrier.
As for the skimpy costumes those are necessary for any superheroine movie. Sorry, utilitarian uniforms need not apply. There is a law that girl superheroes are easy on the eyes.
ReplyDeleteGreat timing, just as the movie superhero boom is about to go bust. Of course, if I remember correctly Valiant's timing was pretty similar before as well - showing up just before the great comics depression in the mid 90s.
ReplyDeleteAs for Supergirl, are you implying women don't already have wall to wall career/achievement role models in the media? Are they in danger of calling it quits and going house frau because Supergirl's boobs are two sizes too large? How sexist of you.