Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF!?

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Sanaton submitted:

Hi! Thank you for the awesome blog, I’m a long time reader, first time submitter.

I saw the post about Frank Miller’s Wonder Woman on your blog and thought that these might of interest to someone.

http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/?p=13

Here’s an article about how Vicki Vale is portrayed in DC Comics’ All-Star Batman and Robin. What I find most interesting are the script notes the writer Frank Miller wrote to Jim Lee (the artist):

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And here’s a picture of Vicki Vale from the same album (All-Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder #1), a picture of Vicki Vale after a car accident, and she is about to die:

Vicki Vale about to die

There’s nothing sexier than broken ribs.

Priorities.

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    Oh my god. OH MY GOD. This is so disgusting I don’t even know what to say!
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    Okay, so… Sometimes, fanservice makes sense… They’re showering, there’s intimacy, there’s a beach scene… But then… There...
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    Frank Miller is the absolute worst
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    aaaaaaaaaaah fuck no make it stop
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    I feel like vomiting.
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    frank miller >:I
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    fucked up shit right here
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    Things I’m disgusted by here: Frank Miller.
  20. basementtroll said: Surely I can’t be the only one with the strong feeling that Miller was touching himself while writing these directions.
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