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  • Jun. 1st, 2006 at 4:54 PM
Hooker boots and a bathing suit.
For those of you who love ASSBAR so much it burns like unto athlete's foot, All-Star Batman Chucks. Not shown: the soles, featuring Vicki Vale's talking ass in rubbery bas relief.

Also, the thrilling Making Of! Batwoman's new costume (I recommend you read it only after ingesting a Valium if you're a fan of Oracle, because you'll probably get upset):

"I pointed out to them that the mask makes her look like the Huntress a little overall - but there weren't many options. The original mask that I had in there when it was to be a Batgirl design was the complete head cover that we've seen, so they did need something different from that."

Headband with pointies! Headband with pointies! C'mon, it'd be ADORABLE.
  • Music:Queen, "Don't Try Suicide"

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[info]tweedlekeys wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 09:42 pm (UTC)
Headband with pointies is too standard cheap devil-lady costume that people buy in a bag at Target.

Of course, the end design makes me think "She-ra villain."

The chucks could be worse... I have to see them in person.
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[info]heykidzcomix wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 10:48 pm (UTC)
That was kind of the point--it has a lovely doofy readymade quality to it.
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[info]dead_relena wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 09:55 pm (UTC)
I love Chucks and I love Batman, but damn those shoes are ugly ;_; Two great tastes that do not taste great together.


I was getting a Batman Beyond vibe from the new BatLesbianWoman's costume. Maybe it was just the black and red combo?
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[info]heykidzcomix wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 10:54 pm (UTC)
And the identical logo, yeah...it certainly seems to be a deliberate nod, but apparently it's because Alex Ross prefers an evil pedestrian Barbara Gordon to the heroic wheely variety. So now you know!
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[info]jarodrussell wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 09:58 pm (UTC)
See, I disagree with their central thesis that a Batwoman needs to walk. Advancements in technology can make everyday life for the handicapped just as rich and fulfilling as everyone else.
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[info]heykidzcomix wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 10:46 pm (UTC)
Man, you stick a rocket launcher on that thing, and crime in Gotham is history.
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[info]clayin wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2006 11:54 pm (UTC)
...I want to see Barbara with one of those. That would KICK ASS.

Come on, which is scarier - a woman dressed as a bat flying towards you or a woman dressed as a bat in a WHEELCHAIR OF DEATH flying towards you?
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[info]raielchan wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2006 12:19 am (UTC)
All I know is I'm annoyed that the end analysis is they didn't make Barbara Batwoman. However, here's still to hoping she walks again.

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[info]tarpit05 wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2006 03:38 am (UTC)
Hey, wasn't Batman crippled too? Good to see DC sticking to their guns for more representations of disabled people.

Oh. Yeah. He got better.

Batwoman looks like Spider-Man in that 52 image, with the red/blue color scheme. Which would confuse the sexual responses of many fanboys, let's hope.

And apropos of nothing, MSNBC had a horrible feature on Lesbian! Batwoman yesterday, where both the host and the Silent Bob's Secret Stash employee she was interviewing clearly didn't know anything about the character or much about comics generally. Which doesn't matter, since Alison Stewart is adorable regardless and I want to bear her children.
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[info]heykidzcomix wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2006 03:40 pm (UTC)
Someone really should have sat you down and explained where babies come from. I'm just saying :D.

Off the top of my head, Marvel has more disabled people than DC does, although it's kinda dumb there too--you've got Professor X, Daredevil and...um...there was some deaf chick recently too, Ronin or something. And a bunch of the mutants could probably be classified as having some sort of congenital abnormality, like Beak. Plus, they've got Gert in Runaways, who a nicely chunky counterpoint to Supertorso and her ilk.

Woo for Marvel, I guess.
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[info]tarpit05 wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2006 06:18 am (UTC)
The idea of the disabled hero was practically a Marvel formula back in the Silver Age. But DC has its share too. There's Dr. Caulder from the Doom Patrol (and the Patrol itself, like the X-Men, could be seen as differently-abled or otherwise physically disadvantaged. There's I Ching from the Diana Rigg Wonder Woman run. Rose/the Thorn was schizophrenic. It is curious, though, that DC's commitment to portraying the disabled gets conveniently ignored when Batman breaks his back.

Gert is easily the only Runaway that matters. But chunky is not a disability...
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[info]gwalla wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2006 04:40 am (UTC)
Rose/Thorn wasn't schizo. She had MPD. Very different. Schizo is like believing that Ronald McDonald is beaming bad thoughts into your head via orbital pink lasers (technically, that's paranoid schizophrenia; there are other types, but none remotely resemble MPD).
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[info]tarpit05 wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2006 05:00 am (UTC)
Thanks for the correction. I couldn't be bothered with, you know, doing research. Took me long enough to look up what the leader of the Doom Patrol's name was (and I'm still not sure if it's Dr. or Prof. Caulder).
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[info]gwalla wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2006 09:25 pm (UTC)
It's a common misconception. I only know the difference because I had to do a report on schizophrenia way back in high school, and it stuck with me.

Also, Niles Caulder's title is Doctor.
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[info]mr_rakshasa wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2006 08:20 am (UTC)
I tend towards the positive, you know. Still, there are a few sentences that make me shift my feet about uneasily, and some that make my stomach feel all cold. "We spoke to Alex Ross, who designed the costume" is one of them. I don't think the costume will necessarily be bad - heck, there's probably someone out there who can draw a good Iron Spidey costume - but did he not design Kingdom Come Jade?
Nobody could draw that well.
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[info]heykidzcomix wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2006 03:33 pm (UTC)
Oh come on, people LOVE the Kingdom Come Jade.

Meanwhile, creepy cowboy inventor Ted remains unmade. There's no justice in this world.
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[info]gwalla wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2006 04:41 am (UTC)
Now that's a boobwindow.
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[info]mr_rakshasa wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2006 03:12 pm (UTC)
They're wasting Elseworlds figure time on that? When they have Elseworlds Red Son Stalin unmade? And they could probably make at least one other Red Son Superman? And and and and and Evil Western Bowler-Wearin' Allan Scott!
Heck, I'd settle for an Elseworlds OMACstravaganza - and who wouldn't buy a Pirate OMAC, or a Samurai OMAC, or one who's Green Lantern, or a Communist, or Victorian (big moustache, pipe, centre parting)?
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[info]j_2 wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2006 01:14 am (UTC)
In the costume article, that pose of Batwoman's when she's fighting the poor lion is ridiculous. Can you even pose like that when stationary, let alone fighting in high heels? Methinksnot. The pose makes no sense from a martial arts perspective.

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[info]heykidzcomix wrote:
Jun. 6th, 2006 08:28 pm (UTC)
Oh, you're such a girl. Comics don't have to be realistic! In fact, they should strive for being as implausible as possible. That's where the art comes from.
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