Even in the Silver Age, this wouldn't pass muster
This week's nominee for the most ridiculously cartoonish panel would have to be this one that comes from Countdown to Final Crisis #3.Let's see, we have Mary Marvel corrupted again, just after I thought she'd stopped and come to her senses. Check. She's submitted to Darkseid and is serving him again. Check. And the writers and artists are working as hard as they can to make it harder for the audience to suspend their disbelief at how Kyle, and even Donna, can stand the impact of his being used as a human club without getting his back broken. Check.
There are plenty of good reasons why DC has not been able to outdo Marvel in sales on the long term for many years now. This is one them. Even back in the Silver Age, this would've been tasteless and disgusting. Some might find it unintentionally funny, but I don't find it even that much. If this is how DC editorial was thinking of bringing back the Silver Age, they blew it. Even during the 1990s, when they were trying a nostalgic approach, they didn't stoop to anything this lowly.
Labels: dc comics, misogyny and racism, violence, women of dc
