No, my linkblogging posts don’t come on any particular day, they just tend to appear when I’ve gathered enough links that I like but don’t really have enough to say about to warrant their own posts. In case you were wondering. Now, onward!
At The Nation (full disclosure: I’m currently a Nation intern), Melissa Harris-Lacewell talks about the conservative campaign to paint President Obama as the Joker, and does an excellent job teasing out some interesting political parallels with The Dark Knight film.
Via When Fangirls Attack, a post on close female friendships in comics. How many female “buddy” or “bromance” pairings can you think of?
A comparison of Marvel Divas and Gotham City Sirens, also via When Fangirls Attack.
Johanna Draper Carlson looks at Huntress: Year One.
From Splash Page, Charlyne Yi of Paper Heart and Knocked Up is doing a comic with Oni Press. Insert random blather about how Yi is actually a geek here, right? Well, because she’s not Megan Fox (read, sexy girl everyone slobbers over) this hasn’t gotten that much attention, but it makes me happy: Charlyne Yi is funny, and from what I’ve seen of Paper Heart, is actually creative as well.
Jezebel looks at my favorite superheroine from childhood: She-Ra.
Finally, Defamer wants to know how gay Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is going to be. Apparently word leaked out that there was going to be some sexual tension between the leads (Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr.), which was enough to send Michael Medved into a panic. Apparently there’s nothing to offend Medved in the screenplay, at least, and so he can go back to doing what he does best–which certainly isn’t knowing what women would like to see in a film. Or at least, this woman.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Working for THE NATION, eh? Good stuff. I was a loyal subscriber for years, until recently.
August 6th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Hey, thanks for mentioning my article about Gotham City Sirens and Marvel Divas.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Who cares about Holmes and Watson? They’re the original Batman and Robin. Any sexual tension between them in this movie is mitigated by the fact that the movie is, from all indications, going to have steam-powered robots in it.
So if you’re worried about this movie staying true to the tone of the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, homoeroticism is probably the least of your worries.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
“Melissa Harris-Lacewell does an excellent job teasing out some interesting political parallels with The Dark Knight film.”
Excellent job? Not really. While comparing Obama to the Joker is ludicrous, I thought the article was equally absurd.
August 7th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Great link to The Nation post! Melissa Harris-Lacewell is smart, assertive and, having watched her on CWKO and TRMS, very attractive…
August 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
It’s amusing how both the Left and the Right have tried to use The Dark Knight to paint their opponents as the enemy. I thought it was amusing how conservatives painted the latest movie as a statement in support of George Bush and the War on Terrorism, while it’s equally amusing how liberals paint conservatives as anarchists and “agent[s] of chaos” as the Joker described himself.
How about we see some real informed reporting instead of this back-and-forth ankle biting? The author of the piece isn’t elevating the discussion; if she feels that conservatives labeling President Obama as the Joker is dragging the discussion down, she dragged herself down to their level as well by responding in kind.