Plus Ca Change, Plus Ca Je Suis Une Idiote...

After four... make that five hours work, I can go into my meeting with my advisor tomorrow and look like... I at least put five hours work into this project.

Which is better than I thought it would be. I still have none of the writing parts done but that's what the last minute is for. Now I'm going to get some sleep so I can get up and arrange more stuff.

Represent

The thing I love about Battlestar Galactica, apart from the space planes and guns and young women with rage issues, is that when it's good, when the writing is on, it will fucking break you. Farscape could do that too, with muppets. Both shows hold a mirror up to the human experience and say this is what life is, this is what life is when you're too busy living your life to notice and we have to put in muppets and space planes and hot chicks and dudes and leather to get you to pay attention. The point it, the point that Jeanette Winterson and her ilk don't get, is that it is about life. Maybe it's life in a crucible but the emotions are just as real as Oepidus and Juliet and Pip and Leopold Bloom's and just because the scenery's a little extreme doesn't mean what's happening on stage isn't meaningful. That it can't touch you, make you feel, make you see the world a different way, a better way. It doesn't mean that it isn't dramatically valid just because half the characters are robots, or werewolves, or even elves. Because when Battlestar Galactica brings the A-game, it will fucking break you.

*BANG* (as my head explodes)

Oh, you have got to be fucking kidding me!!!

Note to Stuart Immonen - shit like this? This is why people make generalizations about sexist, objectifying artwork in comics because that is how comics are marketing themselves. And fuck the wider public and any female unwise enough to wander into a comics shop today. You can't blame the audience for saying "all comics are sexist crap" when comic book publishers market themselves and allow/encourage promotion of their product and their industry as sexist crap.

For the record, I love Stuart Immonen's work but calling people out for making generalizations about sexism in comics, particularly in the art, while ignoring the fact that that's precisely the image your industry is cultivating today is, at best, narrow-focused in the extreme and, at worst, willfully obtuse.