| Posted: 18 January 2012 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | 6
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I'm reminded of George Harrison's appearance on the Smothers Brothers show when they say they're never allowed to say anything of substance on the air, and Harrison says that the point is to keep on trying to say it anyway. Wonder Girl is just one example of a character being homogenized* for greater reader consumption. I felt the alterations to the cast of Alpha Flight was far more egregious in taking characters with actual medical conditions and "reversing" them into handsome critters with standard Olympian builds. Although it didn't reflect on his visual, taking Northstar's cough and turning it into a story wherein all of Fairyland is dying was also grotesque... His visual got distorted later when Mark Pacella hyper-inflated him for his widely publicized bout with Major Maple-Leaf. On the topic of the Marvel Figurines, does anybody else do this thing where you have press all of the square bases together and find ways of arranging the figures so they all fit perfectly like that...? I only have six figurines at this point, but I have them lined up thusly: Beta Ray Bill, Jocasta, Annihilus, Ikaris, Black Panther, & the Jack of Hearts... I'm seriously considering my next purchases on the basis of whether or not I can make them "fit" closely beside one another... On a completely different subject, I saw a t-shirt the other day that read, "I don't have OCD. I have CDO. It's similar but all of the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be..." * And shot full of hormones in this case...
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