I can't quite decide

Does the new catwoman costume really suck?

Or do you just need at least a hint of some curves to carry it off?

Zing

'"The Cape" is akin to breaking into a bank and stealing the pens.'

Tim Goodman berates new TV series the Cape not for stealing from Batman, but for not stealing the good bits.

Werewolf Nipples

I know enough about Twilight to realise that there is nothing at all odd about Barbie Jacob going sans shirt. I was, however a little bemused by the lack of nipples.

I mean not even a subtle suggestion of nipplage. Its not like I was asking for the full Batman here, his torso is naked.

Back in primary school I remember being sent to the principal's office for drawing nipples. I had drawn a mermaid. The principal asked why she had nipples and I said that I thought mermaids must be mammals, so they would need nipples to nurse their young. At the time I had no idea why my desire for biological accuracy had been seen as requiring disciplinary action.

In a reverse proposition perhaps werewolves don't need nipples because they procreate by biting humans and turning them into werewolves? Although this still leaves open the question of why Spirit, so-called stallion of the Cimarron doesn't have a penis.

(Anatomy is dirty people, and don't you forget it)


See also:
the Naked Barbie Project

What do Batman and Teddy Roosevelt have in Common?

So today my writer's groups failed to group (and, I suspect, also failed to write). Fortunately their lack of cohesion was apparent by Friday night. So I slept in, and then I got up and went to Borders (where we meet) anyway.

This was not entirely because I am a creature of habit--although I am, but it was too late to cancel the dog walker, so I thought I might as well go somewhere. It was also because I had a Borders gift card. And I have learned that I need to spend these things before I lose them, so--like--within about a week. (If you could see my apartment you would understand).

I had decided that I wanted to buy a copy of Persepolis by whats-er-name. I looked around hopelessly in the graphic novel section. I wasn't sure where to look because comics are shelved by character name, not author.  But anyway, I can't find it. So I went to the helpful staff person who told me it was shelved as memoir, upstairs.

So, there I am upstairs.  The equally helpful staff member upstairs tells me that all of the sections in Borders are shelved alphabetically by author, except one.  Because biograpy and memoir is shelved by the name of the subject of the book.  So if someone wants a biography of Teddy Roosevelt they can see them all together in one place. Those of you who were paying attention will know he wasn't quite right about that. 

I wanted to read Persepolis because I am trying to get over my bad attitude about these feminist memoir comics that are being embraced by the pretentious classes, who continue to think comic books in general are sexist pap of interest only to mouth-breathers with a spandex fetish and a single digit IQ.  Finding it being given special treatment (being shelved by genre not format) didn't help with that.