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God Bless Her
Reading Kelly Sue DeDonnick's* comics essay, this time she deals with comics and women, comics and mythologies, and comics and feminism. A couple of excerpts:

"...Later, in my teens, George Perez relaunched WONDER WOMAN and I ate those up and begged for more. Do you remember Perez’ WONDER WOMAN? Feminist icon, my ass. Naked, save for a sheet of some sort and her mane of impossibly buoyant blue-black hair, the amazon who would be WONDER WOMAN knelt, hands bound, at the feet of Ares (I think?) in a pose that went pretty far in suggesting Diana was about to perform an act that could earn her jail time in certain southern states. I’d like to tell you I was horrified, but I loved it. And any nascent guilt I may have been nurturing with regard to my sexual appetites was expunged by the fact that our heroine was, without a doubt, going to come back and unleash hell on her captor." And,

"As an adult, I have the very same affection for Kazuo Koike and Kazou Kamimura’s LADY SNOWBLOOD (which, I must confess, I experienced first as a film and then as manga but I recommend both). Our lady metes out vengeance without mercy and, sometimes, without clothes. God bless her."

Killer, killer essay. I know my Ladies of Grace Adieu are not the most avid of comic book readers (though I wish they were), but this essay is worth the read.

*Kelly Sue, if you're not familiar, is the co-writer of 30 Days of Night: Eben & Stella, and maintains a great blog, Girl Farts. Also, a total bad-ass all around, and one hell of a bombshell.