JLI Omnibus
Mar. 31st, 2019 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI finished reading the JLI omnibus. Turns out the first month of comics I bought that turned into a regular collection was August 89, JLI going inside the mind of Blue Beetle, and the JLE where Metamorpho's wife comes back and seeing her new husband restores his memory. Turns out this omnibus ends very shortly after that. But the last few issues were what I remembered, international intrigue and big adventure mixed in with the bwahaha. So, maybe after that they save the world a lot.
There was a lot to like in this omnibus, but the good bits were not all the bits, and there's stuff I notice now that I skimmed over at the time. Like, feminist just means being angry when team sexually harasses them. Every man is the same kind of sleezy to every woman, unless they're married or Batman. Women happen in varieties flirty or angry or... sort of nothingy, like the writers can't words them if they're not doing either of those. Comedy is a male thing, apparently. Though to be fair so is whining continuously or having arguments about who is in charge. After Canary left women wore less, except for Barda. Barda gets armour, even though she can stand being blasted with a mega rod. Women who have no super healing or armour are running around in swimsuits with super high legs and necklines to the navel.
And yet, I liked it. I thought it was plenty feminist. Because women existed, and got to tell off guys for being that way, and fought just as hard as anyone else.
I am so happy we raised the bar. So. Happy.
... we can argue about how high later, but, some things are better.
I liked the characters, I liked the setup, I liked the comedy and how they had adventures too, but the version in my head tends to edit the adventure to comedy ratio quite a lot.
So as I have concluded many times, I should go write the version in my head, because this version is trapped in the late 80s forevermore.
But it was cool then.
There was a lot to like in this omnibus, but the good bits were not all the bits, and there's stuff I notice now that I skimmed over at the time. Like, feminist just means being angry when team sexually harasses them. Every man is the same kind of sleezy to every woman, unless they're married or Batman. Women happen in varieties flirty or angry or... sort of nothingy, like the writers can't words them if they're not doing either of those. Comedy is a male thing, apparently. Though to be fair so is whining continuously or having arguments about who is in charge. After Canary left women wore less, except for Barda. Barda gets armour, even though she can stand being blasted with a mega rod. Women who have no super healing or armour are running around in swimsuits with super high legs and necklines to the navel.
And yet, I liked it. I thought it was plenty feminist. Because women existed, and got to tell off guys for being that way, and fought just as hard as anyone else.
I am so happy we raised the bar. So. Happy.
... we can argue about how high later, but, some things are better.
I liked the characters, I liked the setup, I liked the comedy and how they had adventures too, but the version in my head tends to edit the adventure to comedy ratio quite a lot.
So as I have concluded many times, I should go write the version in my head, because this version is trapped in the late 80s forevermore.
But it was cool then.