Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #6: Some Wonder Woman News

A still relevant entry in my Tough Ladies column over at Part Time Monster. Expect more word on Wonder Woman and female superheroes in general here at the Thoughts in the coming weeks.

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Tough Ladies #6: Some Wonder Woman News

by Jeremy DeFatta

Hello, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Today, I’d like to draw your attention to a recent news announcement from DC Comics: Wonder Woman is getting another title! This will be her third series, after her main title (Wonder Woman, currently by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang) and her team-up book with the other half of DC’s current premiere power couple (Superman/Wonder Woman, currently by Charles Soule and Tony Daniel).

The new book will be called Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, which harks back to her original Golden Age title, Sensation Comics, similar to Superman’s Action Comics and Batman’s Detective Comics. This new iteration of Sensation Comics will be in a digital-first format, meaning that it will have short digital chapters released weekly with a print version collecting around three chapters released monthly. I recommend visiting comiXology to familiarize yourself with digital comics, and especially DC’s…

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Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #4-Attack on Titan and Mikasa Ackermann

Here’s another entry in my Tough Ladies column over at Part Time Monster. Expect more discussion of anime here at the Thoughts in the coming weeks.

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Good day, everyone! It’s been awhile, but I’m back for a fourth chapter of Tough Ladies. Today, I want to focus on Mikasa Ackermann from the manga/animeAttack on Titan. I heard about Attack on Titan many months ago, but dismissed it as inaccessible (outside of piracy) until the first subtitled season appeared on Netflix awhile back. Needless to say, I binge-watched it, mesmerized by the setting and characters. Though I mostly wish to engage in some brief character analysis, I also want to extend this into a sort of comparative review in order to help foster interest in the show and the comic, the latter of which I admittedly have little experience.

I do not wish to generalize, but much of the anime available in the United States is either too edited or too awkwardly sexualized for me. Oftentimes, emotional displays in these stories are somewhat…

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Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #7: Respect for Jennifer Hale

Here’s the seventh entry in my Tough Ladies column over at Part Time Monster. Go give it a look. I really need to get back these…

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Hello, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well today. For this entry in my Tough Ladies column, I would like to briefly look at one of my favorite voice actors, and a voice actor important to all of nerd culture, Jennifer Hale.

Hale is well known for her contributions to a large number of properties, and her list of credits is immense. You’ve likely heard her voice in an animated film, cartoon series, or video game without even realizing it. Here is a video that gives a rundown of many of her voice roles as of 2008:

She is perhaps best known for voicing the female version of Commander Shepard—protagonist of the Mass Effect video game trilogy—a role affectionately referred to as FemShep by her fans. I am one of a growing group of male gamers who preferred her in this role to her male counterpart for a variety reasons, mostly due to the superiority of her…

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Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #5 – The Many Roles of Claudia Black

Here’s the fifth entry in my Tough Ladies column over at Part Time Monster. Give it a look.

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Good day, everyone! Welcome to the fifth entry in Tough Ladies. Today, I want to focus on one of my favorite actresses, Claudia Black.

Claudia Black is an all-around Australian badass. Many of you are probably already familiar with her work even if you don’t immediately recognize her name; she’s a fairly accomplished actress/voice actress who tends toward fantasy and science fiction projects. For today, I want to take a brief look at a few of her more remarkable roles and offer them up as recommendations.

–        One of the roles Claudia Black is most famous for is Aeryn Sun in Farscape. Aeryn is one of several tough female characters in this property, and holds her own throughout dozens of conflicts over the course of the story. Seriously, at one point she gives birth while participating in a gun fight. Thankfully, Farscape is returning in some capacity, likely as…

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Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #3-Respect for Karen Berger

Here’s the third entry in my ongoing series of posts honoring women in Nerd Culture over at Part Time Monster. Go give it a look.

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Hello, everyone! Today’s Tough Ladies post is going to be somewhat brief, with more to (hopefully) come next week. Today, I want to express respect for, and thanks to, Karen Berger.

Karen Berger-Image courtesy of The Mary Sue

If you don’t know the name, don’t fret—Karen Berger was the editor of DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint when it started up back in the ’80s. It was largely through her efforts that the British Invasion of American comic books occurred, effectively adding talent from across the pond to what was already present. During her time at Vertigo, she was editor on a huge number of titles—everything from Grant Morrison‘s The Invisibles to Brian K. Vaughan‘s Y: The Last Man. Were it not for her efforts, American audiences might have limited to no exposure to such writers as Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, and (believe it…

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Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #2-On BatGirl(s)

The second in my Tough Ladies column over at Part Time Monster. This one is about Batgirl.

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Welcome back, everyone. Today, I want to accompany my Batman work over at Sourcerer by laying down a few of my thoughts on the character of Batgirl and her history . I know that there have been several Batgirls over the years, but I want to focus on the original (and current), Barbara Gordon, and my personal favorite, Stephanie Brown.

Stephanie Brown as Batgirl, courtesy of Batman Wikia

Believe it or not, the Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl (technically not the first, but pretty much the original in current continuity), came about first in the 1966 Batman television series before being introduced into the comic books themselves. Barbara has seen it all since her creation; she is one of those characters who has watched the DC Universe grow and evolve from the Silver Age (which began in 1956 with the introduction of the Flash most people are familiar…

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Jeremy-Blog: Tough Ladies #1

The first entry in my Tough Ladies series over at Part Time Monster. Also worth a look. 😉

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Today’s guest-post comes from my friend and colleague, Jeremy DeFatta, who will be joining us for a weekly feature here. He also contributes to Sourcerer. You can find out more about Jeremy on our contributors’ page.

This is the first installment of what I hope will be a companion series of posts to my work on Sourcerer tentatively titled “Tough Ladies.” Each week, I’ll focus on strong female comics characters as well as female comics writers and artists. Starting out, they will also be relevant in terms of comics releases for the weeks they appear. And for this first installment, I am going to focus on Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios, and Pretty Deadly—a three-pack of a female-led comic book written and drawn by women.

Pretty Deadly image courtesy of PrettyDeadlyComic Tumblr

Though she may not be quite as well known as her husband

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