Archive for the 'What Were They Thinking' Category

Typo’s Best: Her Origin Gets Odder With Each Retelling.

Mar 14, 2010 in Sexism, What Were They Thinking, Wonder Woman

Hey guys, Matt here. This classic Wonder Woman panel (originally posted March 2007) makes me giggle. I’m not sure if it’s the sewing or the special Amazon nurse training. Maybe it’s that what she’s doing bears no resemblance to sewing in the first place. It’s more like… I don’t know, caulking, but I suppose that isn’t terribly ladylike.


Please note that the below panel is taken from a retelling of WW’s origin. In this scene, she is returning to Man’s World with Steve Trevor. Keep in mind, they’ve just met…

“I’ve daydreamed about sewing Steve’s loose buttons on his shirt?”

Why, exactly, did Stienhem put her on the cover of Ms Magazine, again?

And do nurses normally call learning to stitch a wound “sewing”?

(This issue also features Diana deflecting lightning with her bracelets again, but I figured you guys were tired of seeing that one)

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All Flash Comics #2 ends with…ew

Mar 12, 2010 in Cliches, Creepy Relationships, Parenting, Sexism, Sexuality, The Flash, What Were They Thinking

I’m gonna end this today even if it maims me.
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All Flash #2 Part 4. Almost Done. Really.

Mar 11, 2010 in Cliches, Parenting, Sexism, The Flash, What Were They Thinking

I just love this issue so much…
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All Flash #2 Part 3!

Mar 10, 2010 in Cliches, Parenting, The Flame, What Were They Thinking

Chapter three totally rips us off by not having an awesome title. Instead, it just has a massive car wreck.
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All-Flash Quarterly, Part II: THE BLOOD RED RAY!

Mar 09, 2010 in Cliches, Sexism, The Flash, What Were They Thinking

How’s that for an awesome title?

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All Flash Quarterly #2 is Special.

Mar 08, 2010 in The Flame, What Were They Thinking

This comic is just special, and as such it is getting special treatment. I’m basically encapsulating the entire comic, because it’s just this great, fun, zany comic that then… well, that’d be telling. Still, totally worth an entire week as far as I’m concerned and well, my blog, so you’re stuck with my (poor) taste.

Also, I ask a favor of the historians in the room. This is a fairly easy story to find, and I am sure you could skip ahead. If you do, cool. Just please don’t spoil it in the comments. Pretty please with sugar on top.

With that said, on with the show!
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Typo’s Best: For A Good Time, Come To Gay City!

Mar 07, 2010 in Bad Science, Gay City!, Lois Lane, Sexism, Sexuality, Superman, What Were They Thinking

Since Typo brought up lingual shifts yesterday, I thought this was a good time to visit Gay City.

All right, all right. I always think it’s a good time to visit Gay City.

-Site Admin Matt


Superman #7 Features what May be the Greatest Story of All Time. Why?

Because it’s set in Gay City.

What do we know about Gay City?

Well, we know that there’s a strange malady that seems incurable.

We also know that it’s no place for a woman.

Superman’s excited. Wonder why?

Ah. Up for a wee bit of R&R I suppose.

I wonder if he’s a top or a bottom…

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Lingual Shift Example

Mar 05, 2010 in Green Lantern, What Were They Thinking

This one’s kind of a gimmie:

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Confession

Mar 04, 2010 in Freudian Images, Green Lantern

It took me a second look to realize exactly what was going on with this cover. (more…)

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The King and The Witch

Mar 03, 2010 in Cliches, Creepy Relationships

Remember how I was commenting about how some heroes seem to always let their attractive female arch-foes (what is plural of “nemesis” anyway?) escape after hurting people?

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