There Should Be No Surrender On Minority Issues In Comics

Cheryl Lynn has waved the white flag on the Vixen issue. Forgive me, but I want to Godfather-III her back into that fight.

Look, I'm sure Racialicious will keep up the good fight. As will Willow and 4thletter.

But we want Cheryl Lynn on that wall. We need her on that wall.

She's one of the most articulate on the subject and always brings her disarming sense of humor along with her. If you don't like what she writes, you can't handle the truth.

WGBSG: Cheryl Lynn aka Digital Femme

God bless Cheryl.

She discusses the pluses and minuses of having a comments section. She spends a lot of time listing the reasons why she turned off comments some time ago. As someone who has followed her blog off and on for over a year, I'm aware of some of the perfectly legit reasons already.

She finishes off the post with:

I know what you're thinking. Bitch, if you don't want the full responsibility of a blog, then why have one? I've been wondering about that a lot lately. Is this site even necessary for me now that Torchbearers exists?

Personally, I don't think that at all (especially not the "bitch" part). For someone without comments, you get a surprising number of views from what I can tell. You, also, spawn conversation (with comments) elsewhere. You offer a lot to the community (and that isn't meant as a dig at anyone else). Having no comments at all doesn't give any implication of intellectual dishonesty, either (which can probably be taken as a dig at others).

I don't know if Torchbearers would be as good a place for your observational posts as your current blog. My vote is to keep up with the blogs, comments or no comments.

Good Blog Spotlight: Digital Femme

I met Cheryl Lynn back at NYCC last year. We had conversed via blogs and MySpace a bit. It was a pleasure to get to sit down at the convention and talk to her for a bit.

Why? Because I greatly admire her work on her blog. I do miss the days where comments were allowed, but I can understand turning them off due to the spam she was receiving. She blogs from a unique perspective and never, in my opinion, says anything simply to shock or stir shit up. Often on the most controversial topics, she expresses her opinion reasonably, sometimes even understated. She almost always delivers it with a good deal of humor, the kind that wouldn't likely even agitate anyone with an opposing viewpoint.

For example, her coverage of the idea that the artistic representation of African American females in comics are too unrealistic or model themselves off of Halle Berry too often? Much tamer than the people that wind up joining her side of the argument than they link blog.