MOCK COMICS: "Bratz are the X-Men for Girls"

Oh, Avi Arad, you get it. Not.


"In explaining the [Bratz movive], [Avi Arad] insisted that Bratz are 'X-Men for girls' — it's just that their superpowers are singing, fashion, soccer and cheerleading."

arcana_j asked the Q of the Week: "Golly, I wonder which one is Wolverine?"

WOLVIEBRATZ!




Summer's conclusion? Helpless laughter with, "But it's really CUTE!"

Admit it, you lot: you'd totally buy superhero Bratz! I WOULD!
I love the Bratz dolls. Not the Baby Bratz (kiddie porny!), not the whatever spin-off Bratz, not their freakish animals. The straight up fashion doll Bratz, ones with costumes and packaging I like (which include Tokyo a-Go-Go, the "Punk" Bratz, and similar.
OH HELL YEAH.

Sideshow Wolverine doll body (it's a doll, people), 80's Flashback Fever! Bratz Boyz "Cade" head and shoes, "Dylan" hair for the sideburns. I didn't have to do anything to the "Cade" hair!
I kind of like this digital custom figures stuff!

Inspired by thebfg's visual riposte to Lisa.

Eat Up Wif It and a NEW ALL PLAY!

Whatever that means. I just liked it.

Trying to decide if I want to snark more about the Eisners. Anyone got a list of presenters I can peruse?

Boy had a bad day. That about covers it. Raising a kid who is twelve in the parts, twelve in receptive language, and a mystery often is quite a job. I think I get depressed sometimes because I am remembering "retarded" kids from growing up. There was a high number on my childhood street, and I knew even more because of my brother in spec ed. Their quality of life varied a great deal. Treatment then was all over the place, most of it was bad. Parents were overwhelmed, and MR was stigmatized and a fearful thing.

Those last two are still true. I have to hold onto the fact that I am myself, not those parents. Treatment is better. I have seen what can happen to a special needs kid when things go badly. I have seen it up close and personal.

I expect, at some point, I will get a book out of this. In some ways, I have. The trick will be in presenting the blackly hilarious absurdity along with the grinding horrible. There is shit I have seen and heard that would make me call the police and take children from homes if it happened on my street.

Working on another page of RG. Also getting my story ready for SYNESTHETIC. Finally taking a table from my closet and moving it properly into my studio so I can set up my convection oven and get on with doing polymer clay again, back where I left off with making maquettes, which I really enjoy. With that done, I can also use the closet, which is right now a mess of unstack it to find something on the bottom then restack it and it's like trying to repack a suitcase or refold a tissue paper pattern agggh. 

I am still trying to find that three-pages-a-week groove so RG spools out as fast as I'd want it to go if I were a reader. We'll get there, right?

Summer said something incredibly funny today, but I'll be dashed if I remember what.

Back to work so I can sleep so I can get to the Farmer's Market in the morning, which ends at the obscenely early hour of noon. Why not an overnight Farmer's Market, huh? Who'd go with me?

ALLLLL PLAY? What other things should be late at night or overnight? Is there something late night already that you love? What would you prefer to have in the day?

WTF COMICS: Adam Hughes> SD Con> About the Damn Mary Jane Statue

Face it, Tiger: It's a crap statue.

Adam Hughes tries to explain The Statue again, and fails. Again.

Maybe he learned from the awful Paul Dini/Misty podcast, since he's alone on the panel, and has an unidentified man taking questions for him. Adam explains a lot more about the idea of the statue, and it IS funny. It is supposed to be of the moment MJ discovers that Pete is Spidey (hence the lack of wedding band.)

Still doesn't explain the last-century Imagey-Shmimagey thong, or the ripped on the ass pants, or even how the statue sculptor managed to fillet every last bit of charm from Hughes' drawing (which is cute).

Hughes' himself doesn't pull a "fat and ugly" boner like Misty Lee did, but he does make a few choice Snausages:

"Mary Jane's job is to be rescued by Spider Man."
He calls Ragnell and Kalinara "young ladies."

As for the idea of something for MJ to do ("statues need to be doing something"), and drawing on Gil Elvgren pinups for look and feel, why not MJ doing what she DOES, which is being a model. Beautiful pose, glam outfit.
Consider that idea, and you begin, if you didn't before, to understand the exasperation and annoyance at an ugly sculpt of MJ in ripped pants, mushed together boobs, and thong sorting clothes.
If it were my call about Hughes discussing it again, I'd say give it up as a bad job, because he continues to fail at acquitting himself well when he talks about The Statue.

The Heroes for Hentai cover would've made a FAR better focus for outrage. The staue is lousy, Hughes keeps nibbling his toes when he talks about it, and the H4H cover was far, FAR more offensive.