Just when I thought the comic industry was becoming more female friendly in their marketing, Marvel comes along and gives us these pajamas. They are supposed to be a sexy kind of sleepwear for the female comic fan, but really all they are is pretty hideous. As if society wasn’t hard enough on the female body type and what is an acceptable size to wear, now even a size small can feel like she isn’t thin enough, or have breasts big enough to be a Marvel Heroine. The images on the tops are meant to create an hourglass...

Since the creation of superheroes in the late 1930’s, Hollywood has been more than aware of their marketing potential.  From the old Superman, Batman and Captain America serials played at movie theaters in the 1940’s, to the George Reeves Superman and Adam West Batman TV shows, all the way to the comic book movie boom of the new millennium, superheroes have made quite an impact on the world of film and television. Now, the big screen comic mistakes have been pretty obvious and hard to hide.  But over the years,...

Let’s face it, Superman is over 70 years old!  He was created in a time when people were still saying, “Now, hold on!  That Hitler guy’s not ALL bad!”  It can be a bit of a chore to take a character that predates the polio vaccine and make him relevant to today’s world. That said, today we’re going to take a look at some of the worst offenders in the crazed attempts that some creators have made for relevance and modern “hipness.” Wonder Woman Poor Wonder Woman has had it kind...

As times change, so do standards of decency.  What may have been a perfectly acceptable joke or caricature in bygone years of comic books may not be the most tolerant of story ideas today. We’ve all seen the big lipped, big eyed, Minstrel Show-esque stereotypes of black people that ran rampant in the golden age of comics.  Much debate has been made over Ebony White, the young, street-wise associate/sidekick of Will Eisner’s The Spirit.  There are the obvious complaints about his “black-face” appearance...

Hey, everybody!  We’re bringing you a new feature called Comic-Fail.  We like to talk a lot about the stuff we love in comics where they totally got it right, but unfortunately, sometimes they miss the mark.  We’re here to shine a light on those Comic-Fails. Today we’re going focus on how comics might not have given the ladies the respect they were due.  Now, a lot of complaint has been made about women in comics being objectified or over sexualized, but there have been other times when the gender inequality...