Saturday, December 17, 2005

A Quick request of the DC Universe

No, it's not for their books to stop beating Marvel's in sales. I would like to formally request that someone, anyone introduce Supergirl to the Earth concept of "food". I know that women are rarely if ever portrayed accurately physically in comics, but she's in Kate Moss territory right now, and Kryptonian or no, that can't be good.

You'd think Artemis would have taught her about the importance of eating as a warrior, you to provide the energy for warrioring? Isn't the old saying "An army travels on its stomach"? Well, she's as powerful as an army, so clearly she needs to eat more than the single lettuce leaf she ingests every three days right now.

(I was going to make a joke about "Doctor Light thanks you". Then I remembered Supergirl is Luthor's territory, and . . . I should just stop now.)

2 comments:

James Meeley said...

Well, with Greg Rucka about to become the series new writer (starting with issue #7), and his saying he wants to focus of the "teenage aspect" of Kara, maybe that will be getting addressed in some form or another.

I could see Rucka using Kara for a story about teenage anorexia, with Kara being some kind of "role model" to those who are doing it, as they want to be "just like her."

Hey, that's actually not a bad story concept. Oh, DC.....

Anonymous said...

This really the only thing that ever made me disagree or think about super man.

Kara is stronger the boy blue, but has much much less muscle. So none of their super strength comes from Muscle AT ALL? So what's the whole point of making supes all buff? I'd much rather have a Superman who looks like a normal man (ala Chris Reeve) then a muscled up monster.