Lisa Fortuner hits the nail on the proverbial head with her dissection of the Dr. Doom tirade at Ms. Marvel. She's right that the issue is much more about getting the character wrong than about the misogynist angle. Doom is written to spew offensive language to cement that he's an asshole. But the manner of his speech is off for the character (which, of course, can open it all back up to just being offensive/misogynist for the sake of being so).
I'd type more of my own outlook on the whole thing, but I'm travelling and I'm tired.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Dr. Doom...Only Not So Much
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Let's be honest. Bendis puts about as much effort into writing coherent dialogue as Isiah Thomas puts into helping he Knicks improve. (In other words, none.) ;)
ReplyDeleteThe whole "cow" thing was probably Bendis sitting at his computer, thinking about it for a grand total of five seconds, and then typing it out. Done and done.
Bendis should just be banned from coming up with Doom's dialogue altogether. He can still use him, just get someone who has a grasp on his manner of speech to fill in the blanks. It is just awful and so un-Doom like.
ReplyDeleteNothing can be as bad as his Luke Cage dialogue. Very Painful stuff.
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