Camvoy - As part of the latest reboot (Marvel Now! or whatever the hell it's called), Hellcat has her own book, where she serves as an investigator for
Jennifer Walter's law firm. This could be a great idea, but of course she has lost all semblance of shapeliness and become a flat-chested teenager. Sorry, but I don't think it's just about what sells..there's an agenda where they hire feminist writers & artists (in this case, Kate Leth and Britney Williams) who eradicate all possible prurience.
Kate Leth, for example, has worked on queer comics like Lumberjanes, the carefully "inclusive" cartoon series Bravest Warriors, and has a podcast where like-minded females (such as A-Force's Kris Anka) air their progressive thoughts. The motto of her website is "Comics. Queers. Cats." She's done more conventional stuff in the past, true, but as her career strengthens you can see the feminist emphasis grow.
Britney Williams was brought over from her work on Legend of Korra, which was certainly a good story, but whose ultimate goal was to 'ship' a lasting
bisexual relationship in a saga that never displayed evidence of one throughout its entire run. Not that there's a big problem with an ending like that necessarily, but when you look at how Williams portrayed Korra (not a hint of prurience whatsoever) and then transfers the same prudish values to Hellcat, who was previously one of the sexiest Marvel characters, well there you go.
It's a new clique of Tumblr girls (who grew up working in comics stores and resented the sexy female representations) to replace the old comics boys' club. You think I'm exaggerating? Mr. X, at least, can see it for what it is..only a couple steps away from the friggin' Burka Avenger.
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As recently as 2009, Hellcat was portrayed like this (and even at that point, the male writer was bombarded with accusations of misogyny):
(speaking of which, somebody needs to get some Firestar and Monica Rambeau costumes up in some SHIP vids. don't lie... you know you thought
Angelica had the hot bod when you watched Spidey & Friends...)
Now, with an all-female SJW writing team, Hellcat looks like this:
There's one thing that redeems all this nonsense..and that's that Kate Leth is a big fan of Image's Sex Criminals, the adult fetish comic book where the two main characters (man and woman) have the power to stop time when they orgasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Criminals
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Somehow, that's also a feminist premise. The reason why is that these third-wavers are sex-positive and all about exploring the boundaries of anything consensual..but they're also super skittery about image representation (so-called objectification). i.e. feminist comic artists can draw whatever they want, and it's fine because it's done by a woman, but if a man wants to draw a sexy woman, he must be condemned on Twitter for being a pig). I just recently found out about this book and I'm going to scope out the tradepack collections when I return to the comics store, and not buy the second volume of Dial H.
Sorry if this was such a photo-essay..but when you said Hellcat you got me all riled up....mrrrow! (RIP Primal?)
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