Wayfarer

The term may be overused but there are definite cases where it's a valid complaint. A couple of litmus tests that I've heard over the years are if female characters are drawn with breasts larger than their heads or if the artist uses porn magazines as references for when he's drawing women.

Let's not forget that when introduced Wonder Woman served as the JSA's secretary and a lot of her adventures had her being captured and chained up by the villains so that Steve Trevor could come to her rescue.

Then there were the likes of Phantom Lady, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Torchy, and similar characters who used sex appeal to sell comics to adolescent males. Don't forget that the 40s and 50s were the peak of comic book Good Girl Art.

If you're not seeing a lot of sexism in Golden Age comics it may be because you're reading books that were reprinted because they were considered the cream of the crop and a lack of sexism may well have been one of the criteria for them being reprinted.

My personal experience with female comic book fans is that they tend to follow books about male characters because while they like the genre, there is often a dearth of female characters that they like. Just because they're female doesn't mean they only read books about female characters.

My turn...

Nice seeing Jane Badler.

I'm surprised we haven't seen a Gilligan's Island movie yet, probably starring Will Ferrel as Gilligan.

I could actually go for a Logan's Run movie that stuck more closely to the book. Especially if they cast it with actors who were the same age as the characters in the book.

A live action Jonny Quest wouldn't surprise me.

Clearly you've never seen Maximum Overdrive.

So when the robots take over the world they will be armed with beer cannons.

As far as I know it's an original story written by Zack Snyder. And Michael Bay wishes he was Snyder.

Yes, the trailer focuses on action sequences. So did the trailer for Watchmen and yet Watchmen was more than just a continuous string of explosions. Perhaps you were hoping that the trailer could condense the entire plot of the movie down into 2 minutes so that you don't have to go see it?

Funny that you should complain that the trailer is nothing but action and then slam Snyder for casting a bunch of pretty faces that can't act. How can you tell how good their acting is from what little we see in the trailer? Michael Bay has a track record of casting A-list actors who get by on their looks and charisma but Snyder tends to cast B-list actors who may not be as charismatic but who are good actors. I've seen Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, and Scott Glenn in other things. I'm certainly willing to give them and Snyder the benefit of the doubt until I see the movie.

Does Snyder use a lot of slow motion? Sure. A lot of directors do. At least with Snyder it tends to be done in an artistic fashion.

Now you say that Snyder's movies are better because he's got better material to work with. Have you considered that that's by choice? Director's pick what they want to work with. Clearly Snyder has higher standards than Bay does. That speaks in his favor.

Sounds to me like they're trying to create a show to cash in on the superhero craze without having to have much of a special effects budget.

In other words, they want to make some quick cash so they'll hype the event and hope that the non-comic book buying crowd that doesn't know any better will go into a frenzy and buy the book hoping to make a big score by buying something that will instantly be worth a ton of money when, in fact, it probably won't even be worth the cover price.

My favorite Star Trek episode was the one where the Serenity came out of hyperspace in Gamilon's atmosphere, launched Hammerhead fighters, and then Admiral Ackbar threaded the needle back into space while shouting, "Yippie-kay-yay motherf-!"

I would close it with them doing whatever it is their doing when suddenly Kaley Cuoco's voice breaks in, "Really, Eli?"

<cut to Eli and Kaley Cuoco in a bubble bath together>

Kaley: "This is your fantasy? To take a bubble bath with me while telling me about your role playing game?"

<knock on door>

Eli's Mom: "Eli! What are you doing in there?!"

<Eli looks towards door>

Eli: "Nothing, Mom! Can't I have any privacy!"

<Eli looks back towards Kaley only now she's Sgt. Greer>

Eli: "Oh great..."

Edit: Edited to replace Katee Sackhoff with Kaley Cuoco