Something I have been thinking about quite a bit lately is how to make a great female superhero. I wanted to make such a character, as someone to contrast with Chris and his superhero personae. It was recently kicked into high gear when Nikki and some of the other girls I follow on twitter got into a discussion about why exactly superheros hide their identities from friends and families even though it makes their friends and families hate them. I could easily rattle off close to a dozen canonical reasons why superheros do this. While the practice makes intuitive sense to me, the canonical reasons for these practice didn’t seem very satisfying to the group, or myself either. This was my clue that if I wanted to make a really great female superhero, I would first have to unravel the traditions of superherodom that were distinctly male. Only then can I start putting together some new traditions to make what I think will be a unique and thus hopefully interesting super heroine.
I love assassin’s creed 2, but Ezio is no Altair. But Altair never punched and then strangled a pope, so there’s hope for Ezio yet.
So I’ve started playing Magic recently, but one of the cards I got made me giggle.
I’m pretty sure thats not her soul thats bleeding amirite? boom.
I think some of my ole creative instincts are coming back to me. I’ve missed them dearly.
Over the weekend I caught part of a documentary on comedy during the turn of the century. specifically the history of vaudville. It was fascinating. Mostly because its a form of comedy that I still enjoy even though its dead and buried now. Its probably something I would pick up at somepoint if I can find it for sale because it was a subject I am infinitely facsinated by. I mean I couldn’t help but get into comics. One day I hope to do an indepth study on the history of comedy. Its right up on the list of things that I would sit down and do, because its something I want to see done bad enough. wikipedia’s entry on the history of comedy is only one paragraph in the larger entry of comedy. sad.
I think my favorite moment in the documentary, was a clip from an old sketch comedy from the very early days of television. In it two men, dressed as women, discuss how one of the ladies husband was buying them a new 10″ TV and how it was going to be just like being there. I believe that may just be the perfect clip to sum up the way todays culture works. I’ve seen the joke done to death in the other direction, but some how seeing it so far in the past makes it work better in my opinion. its just more absurd.
Oops I forgot to post a blog last week which I guess puts me at a +1 in my contest with Nikki. But she’s at +2 so I am clearly 2x as good as she is. I mean that is just basic math right?
I do have things I want to write about, but I haven’t found the level of focus it takes to write semi-cohesively, so for now I will just post this sketch I did. It isn’t super great but I’ve been trying to practice more drawing what I see accurately to help make my comic style art better. Will be posting more of these as I do them so I can have a record of my progress. Not setting a schedule for it because CLEARLY that doesn’t work.
I second the character’s, whose mouth I put words into, satement
By admin on October 11th, 2009Posted In: Blog
Chris wants an ebook reader
picture taken of a sony reader touch at my local borders. It is a pretty fun toy, and I am gonna get it soonish once I get the money together for it. maybe I’ll wait til I get my Christmas bonus from work in a couple months. I’m pretty sure if I had it I would read more if only to justify the expense. At the very least I’ll goof off with the doodle feature forever. I had fun with that.
