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6 votes
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Pepper & Carrot open source comic book publishing report # 3
11 votes -
The inevitable decade of Marvel
5 votes -
Rethinking Batman’s classic outfit in a user-centric way
7 votes -
Dogs don't understand basic concepts like moving
19 votes -
‘Lore Olympus’: Webtoon and The Jim Henson Company will partner for YA animated series
4 votes -
Cosplayers who are not white, thin, or physically able thrive at NY ComicCon
9 votes -
Boulet - Flash-Back
7 votes -
How to make up planets and accidentally influence people
9 votes -
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers to fly flag in animated series
5 votes -
Reporting, illustrated
8 votes -
Zach Weinersmith, the cartoonist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and co-author of SOONISH, does a Q&A
12 votes -
Twins for a Day
8 votes -
How to Survive Climate Change
17 votes -
Webcomics: An oral history
12 votes -
Tildistas, do you read or have you read any webcomics?
as an offshoot of this topic, i'm interested to see if any of you folks read/were previously big into webcomics. the last time we apparently had this question was about ten months ago and...
as an offshoot of this topic, i'm interested to see if any of you folks read/were previously big into webcomics. the last time we apparently had this question was about ten months ago and obviously the site's grown quite a bit since then, so i'm sure there will be plenty of new answers.
20 votes -
The monarch’s stupendous migration, dissected
5 votes -
Long live the monarch
10 votes -
Avengers IP, assemble: The wild, circuitous path to Marvel getting its own brands back
4 votes -
The assassination of Fred Hampton
5 votes -
Wendy's Twitter and gatekeeping a company mascot
@wendys: @THEONLYKOH @Michaelramos227 @EvanFilarca @GailSimone You wanna do this? We got time. Saga is on hiatus. It's not really bandwagon when you've been reading for decades.
10 votes -
How 'Supergirl' is changing the game for transgender youth
11 votes -
Powerlifting doesn't care what I look like
7 votes -
What's in a name? Patience Phillips' Catwoman
For anyone who doesn't recognize Patience Phillips, she was Halle Berry's Catwoman in the most terrible superhero film - Catwoman (2004)...that I really enjoyed it. Probably because it wasn't...
For anyone who doesn't recognize Patience Phillips, she was Halle Berry's Catwoman in the most terrible superhero film - Catwoman (2004)...that I really enjoyed it. Probably because it wasn't well-received, it's often overlooked when talking about things like "the first female hero on screen" or "the first black hero..." sort of things. And technically, Catwoman's not a superhero.
Spoilers ahead. I'm also going to keep my points to the story and characters themselves. I honestly had no issues with any of the actors.
The good
- The theme and social commentary on make-up, beauty products, self-harm/addiction and image issues woman do face. The added layer of cooperate greed. The idea of what you see in the mirror vs. what others see (and if they're right), alongside what you want to present to the world or to specific people - honestly this movie has probably one of the best takes on "the cost of beauty" that I've seen in a while, and since.
- The scene where Tom thinks he's saving a jumper, but Patience is actually trying to save a cat. This random scene turns out to be a great storytelling scene when brought up again after Tom arrests Patience for murder and she asks him what he first saw the first time they met.
- Laurel is probably the most interesting character in this movie. There's a really well-framed shot of her photos being removed from her company lobby in favour of a younger model. I think it's one of the best scenes in the movie. Laurel is capable, powerful, rich and very accomplished, but somehow her relevance still fades as her beauty does. (I can honestly say I generally can't stand the evil step-mother wrestling with her fading beauty and taking out her bitterness on some young snow white-y girl, but this one worked for me.)
- I loved that Batman wasn't in it (but didn't really like that a love interest still had to be introduced).
The bad
- That she's call Patience Phillips...but honestly this is the warning to divorce this from any Catwoman or female superheros (or anti-heros) you know.
- Patience doesn't earn her "powers" - Selina Kyle (Catwoman in basically all other versions) works obsessively to perfect all her abilities. She's an insanely good cat burglar, not a magic cat.
- Patience doesn't earn or drive her own growth. There is basically no growth as a character. A magic cat ghost could have simply possessed Patience's body and the story would be the same.
- Oversexualization of Catwoman...which I didn't even know could be a thing until this movie. Black leather for a sexy Catwoman - awesome. Whatever the belt thing was - grossly missed the point while trying to copy Pfeiffer's patched up catsuit.
- I'm also not the biggest fan of make-over tropes in general.
The ugly
- The basketball scene - just everything about it.
- The hate that surrounded the movie because Catwoman wasn't blonde (or Michelle Pfeiffer), and that Batman's not in it.
- The physical punch-them-out fight scene between Laurel and Catwoman in the end - just why? This isn't a movie at all about physical strength, and having a "face like marble" isn't a real power. (To be fair, I don't like this showdown in really any superhero movie, with the exception of The Death of Superman.)
The cheesy
- The crazy cat-lady Patience goes too, and her tossing a cat toy at her
- The sushi eating scene
- The in case of date emergency kit her friends gave her.
- Laurel seeing her cracked beauty in the moment of a showdown fight
- The cat scratches on Tom
- Her best friend hooking up with her doctor
- The comparing signatures on the coffee cups
- Her Marvel-like comic book name
Final thoughts
So yeah...I would recommend this movie, and really hope that when they do make another Catwoman film that it might share some themes. Have you seen this movie? Did you hate it? Who's your favourite Catwoman? What would you like to see in a Catwoman movie?
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I wrote a screenplay but I wasn't sure if it was going anywhere. So I'm turning it into a web "graphic novel".
14 votes -
What football will look like in the future
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Comic Books - tell me about your favorites, my Tilderinos!
Or whatever else you'd want to talk about concerning comic books! A new comic book shop has opened in my town, and my fiancée and I are pretty excited about it. We've never really been into them,...
Or whatever else you'd want to talk about concerning comic books!
A new comic book shop has opened in my town, and my fiancée and I are pretty excited about it. We've never really been into them, but we're pretty excited to get into them. On that note, does anyone have any good recommendations for a newcomer?
As a neat aside, we have a thirty-plus year old comic book-ization of Return of the Jedi, and that's pretty cool.
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Several folks have posted recently about not being happy with the rat race. This gives me strength to be myself and hopefully does for you as well.
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The American Revolution’s greatest leader was openly gay
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If there were a kind of a fireman's pole from the Moon down to the Earth, how long would it take to slide all the way from the Moon to the Earth?
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Sports are political! Athletes and politics are inextricably linked - just like everything else
6 votes