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seriousfic) wrote2011-06-17 01:04 pm
seriousfic) wrote2011-06-17 01:04 pm
No comic company has won a porn arms race with the internet since the Marvel Swimsuit Edition of 98
Okay, so can someone please explain to me how it makes sense to get rid of the Clark/Lois marriage so that you can show Lois being in love with Superman and not Clark and trying to trick him into getting married and find out his secret identity and Clark winking at the reader, blah blah jerking it to the Silver Age, when DC is also setting up Action Comics as the first year of Superman's career?
I mean, it makes perfect sense for Lois and Clark not to be together in the past and then show how they came to like each other in the modern-day-set comics, when they're married, but if their relationship is exactly alike in the prequel and in the present day, then what's the point of even showing the prequel stuff? Let me guess... he's not going to tell her who he is and they're not going to get together, just like in the comic set five years in the future, am I right?
I actually have a theory that the reboot is meant to appeal entirely to perverts. I'm just saying, a search on ASSTR for Cass Cain got no results, while there are hundreds of fics about the Barbara Gordon Batgirl, and there are a hundred and sixty fics about Babsgirl on the old Superstories.net site, and only a handful about Cass. Plus, you have Superman, a popular PWP character, free to swing and getting into a canon relationship with Wonder Woman, a popular PWP ship, so I'm starting to think DC is hoping to get readers by giving them nostalgia-tinted crank fodder. And do you have another explanation for Harley Quinn's costume?
It's sound logic. DC is aiming primarily at men and all men are perverts (not an insult; all the men reading this right now are nodding). It's just that those middle-aged men who still masturbate to Yvonne Craig are going to lose interest quickly when the comics don't feature female characters being gang-raped. (Seriously, what Cass Cain fics I did find were all about the gang-rape. I know she's Asian and wears a gimp mask, but a little variety, eh perverts?) And they'll failing to take into account the next generation of perverts, who either really have a thing for Raven or want yaoi stuff with the Batboys.
I haven't been this disappointed with Grant Morrison since he wanted to kill Rogue off and replace her with a character with the same powers, but more angsty, like Anna Paquin.
I mean, it makes perfect sense for Lois and Clark not to be together in the past and then show how they came to like each other in the modern-day-set comics, when they're married, but if their relationship is exactly alike in the prequel and in the present day, then what's the point of even showing the prequel stuff? Let me guess... he's not going to tell her who he is and they're not going to get together, just like in the comic set five years in the future, am I right?
I actually have a theory that the reboot is meant to appeal entirely to perverts. I'm just saying, a search on ASSTR for Cass Cain got no results, while there are hundreds of fics about the Barbara Gordon Batgirl, and there are a hundred and sixty fics about Babsgirl on the old Superstories.net site, and only a handful about Cass. Plus, you have Superman, a popular PWP character, free to swing and getting into a canon relationship with Wonder Woman, a popular PWP ship, so I'm starting to think DC is hoping to get readers by giving them nostalgia-tinted crank fodder. And do you have another explanation for Harley Quinn's costume?
It's sound logic. DC is aiming primarily at men and all men are perverts (not an insult; all the men reading this right now are nodding). It's just that those middle-aged men who still masturbate to Yvonne Craig are going to lose interest quickly when the comics don't feature female characters being gang-raped. (Seriously, what Cass Cain fics I did find were all about the gang-rape. I know she's Asian and wears a gimp mask, but a little variety, eh perverts?) And they'll failing to take into account the next generation of perverts, who either really have a thing for Raven or want yaoi stuff with the Batboys.
I haven't been this disappointed with Grant Morrison since he wanted to kill Rogue off and replace her with a character with the same powers, but more angsty, like Anna Paquin.