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[zdashamber]

You should all go vote in the Best Comic-Book Writer poll at ign.com. It's Neil Gaiman versus Alan Moore, and Gaiman needs help.

I don't read comics much, so I can't suggest ways to vote in the concurrent poll, but I'd like to see Alan Moore go down. Go! Vote! http://comics.ign.com/articles/646/646667p12.html

I'd feel a lot better about Alan Moore if he had some other way of relating to female characters than Where does the rape come in. Evey? Is introduced by threatened rape. Mina? Is threatened with rape in the first and second issues, and then in the third we meet one of Our Heros raping a schoolful of girls. Whatsername the child of rape in Watchmen, the only female character? I didn't even bother to read From Hell. I can only imagine what he did with Victorian prostitutes.

I mean, leaving aside the creepy-ass WTF-ness, doesn't it show a certain lack of writing ability? Vote Neil!

(I read "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and for a year or two after I was asking people, Is there some other book? Was there some really excellent book that everyone was praising, and I'd accidentally bought the knockoff?)

Comments

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

OMFG. I only have been pointing this out about the annoying rapetasticness for years... and it is just freakin' weird who noticed it and who didn't. I still can't figure it out about League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Now there would be a really good gender reversal comic task - just write something like that where it's totally normal for every male character to be defined by their rapability.

I did like "Promethea" though... the first couple of books.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Eh, sounds gross either way. It would be a real test of writing ability to write a reversal, though, because people would immediately be saying "Hey! What's this!"

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Yeah -it's one of the things that A Brother's Price - that novel I keep raving about - did really well. They made a world where men getting raped by women is really scary and has serious personal/social consequences for the men, very believably. I think that men who read this book might even *get the idea* on some gut level.