The comedy-romance manga NISEKOI presents the familiar trope of the "tough girl" who constantly beats up on an average guy who annoys her, all with the aim of fomenting a fractious romance. This page is cute not just because Chitoge punches out her future boyfriend Raku, but also because she does so because he implied she was indelicate-- which she proceeds to demonstrate with the punchout.
I made the mistake of buying a "brick" of all the issues of the DC series CHECKMATE. I've no one to blame but myself for not realizing how bad it would be, since I'd read a few loose issues previously. About the only thing that was slightly impressive were a few fight-scenes featuring a superheroine named Black Thorn, who never got her own series, though possibly her appearances in CHECKMATE were an attempt to give her some fan-popularity. Scenes from issues 8 and 15 of CHECKMATE.
I've changed the rationale of this blog about three times now, and this change-- the result of my getting played out with respect to the EFF game-- hearkens back to the original rationale of my first post here, which was merely about spotlighting examples of femmes formidables in action, all of which were meant to refute the fallacy that female characters lack "agency" in pop culture.
But a few things have changed since 2010. Back then, I was largely dependent on what random images happened to show up on Google Images and suchlike. But now there are other resources, not least Read Comics Online, which make it possible to excerpt images reprinted within the online reprints, as opposed to using whatever imagtes other bloggers may have scanned.
Instead of maintaining the "diachronic" angle that still appears in the header, now I'm just going to proceed alphabetically as I explore numerous, sometimes obscure examples of femme formidable action, usually if not exclusively in the comics medium, False modesty aside, I know a helluva lot about comics, so there's a lot of material to spotlight. There's no analytical project here as there was with the diachronic critiques; just a broad overview of what kinds of female agency have appeared over the years. Each entry will focus on some female character, alphabetized by the first letter in the name, staring with the given name in the case of regular cognomens.
This is also the sort of project where I can just toss in one or two short posts whenever I happen to find the time.
CHUCK CONNORS acted in THE RIFLEMAN with--
JOHNNY CRAWFORD, who was also in THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE with--
CLAUDIA JENNINGS as CANDY.
LIONEL ATWILL acted in LOST CITY IN THE JUNGLE with--
KEYE LUKE, who voiced a character in a SMURFS episode with--
