FEMMES FORMIDABLES

Buffy the Vampire Slayer got out of the gate first and maintained popular in comic books some time after the demise of her television se...

I haven't featured many characters as yet from the genre of prose fantasy, but I would remiss not to mention one of the better ones ...

From the late 1960s on, the comic book Lois Lane had become noticably tougher, often if not consistently capable of taking out gunmen wi...

Year 1992 should probably get the honorary title of "the Year of the Woman Superhero."  It's not that Buffy was the best s...

The main point of interest in the film V.I. WARSHAWSKI-- a critical and commercial flop in its day-- is that it might be considered a mi...

At the risk of pissing off any readers who haven't seen the 1990 Warren Beatty-Madonna DICK TRACY, I'm spoiling the ending: the ...

1989 is rather a dub year for femmes formidables, but the comic biker-flick EASY WHEELS deserves to be a bit better-known.  In this de...