dear lucasarts, how much do I have to pay for you to hire Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christiensen, Natalie Portman, and Yoda to do a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 of The Force Awakens completely in character and dressed as force ghosts
So. Doctor Doom has built a castle which, in order to get inside, you need to break down all its walls. So the Hulk breaks down the first wall rather easily. Drax breaks down the second wall with a little more difficulty, but still with very little effort. The Thing shatters the third wall with impressive strength after weakening it first.
And for the fourth wall, Deadpool simply looks up.
” Am I supposed to be the punchline of this joke? “
In defending the absence of women shortlisted for the Grand Prix award, Angouleme Festival director Franck Bondoux offered this weak justification:
“When we go back and look at the places of men and women during that time, in the field of comics creation, it is clear that there are very few recognized authors… it is objectively faster to count the female creators (almost on the fingers of one hand) than the males.The Festival cannot rewrite the history of comics.”
There’s no need to re-write history to include women creators. You need only read them.
Coming this spring from Fantagraphics is The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, an anthology of some of the most ground-breaking work in comics history. Edited by Trina Robbins and featuring the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Glockener, Julie Doucet, Roberta Gregory and Carol Tyler (and at least 30 other names you should become familiar with.)
This list doesn’t include all the memoirs, all the fiction short story collections. They’re mostly books I’ve read— some of them, like “Like Bread on a Seder Plate” and “Queer Jews” I grew up with, others, like “Torah Queeries” and “Keep Your Wives Away From Them” I read on my own time. They range from Orthodox to Reconstructionist to Reform, and encompass a variety of ways of tangling with Jewish tradition.
If you are curious about LGBTQ people in the Jewish tradition, I urge you read at least one if not more of these.
Kimchi and Justice 