Comments on: The Least Feminist Comics Heroine Of All Time

By: edc

edc — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:05:00 +0000

there should be more comics like this.

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:15:37 +0000

Mark Temporis: I’ve not read the actual issue, so this is coming from what I remember from her Wikipedia entry, but yes.

Something else I want to add: if Stillface’s face is as hard as stone then you’d break you hand trying to punch him. And since he goes around saying “Ha, my face is hard as stone!” I can see why she’d try and throw something at him instead of throwing a punch.

By: Mark Temporis

Mark Temporis — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:41:20 +0000

Lister Sage: So basically, it was similar to the Green Hornet/Kato dynamic, where the assistant is really the guy and the guy is basically useless?

By: FurikoMaru

FurikoMaru — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:23:20 +0000

And people bitch about Sailor Moon being useless…

By: Ed (Jack Norris)

Ed (Jack Norris) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:28:50 +0000

Maybe he’s deliberately pretending to be fooled by her “secret identity” as part of some weird role-playing thing. Maybe the panels we see are just what could be printed according to the standards of the time, and the real complete story, while making more sense, might just be too much information…

By: Rob Brown

Rob Brown — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:18:05 +0000

The shame of it is, it could have been good if she’d had a personality. Really, asking questions is probably a more effective method of finding out whodunit than beating the crap out of people.

I agree with this. Still, when the answer to one of your questions amounts to “go away, you annoying person,” then you are probably doing something wrong.

I’d like to know what she did after that. Did she say “No, I’m not going anywhere until I get answers?” Did she leave and then sneak back into his office later on to snoop around? Did she leave and tail him later to see if he’d lead her to anybody? Or did she just leave and think “D’oh. He doesn’t want to talk to me. I guess this is a dead end.”

If it’s #4, then that’s pretty sad.

By: Video Beagle

Video Beagle — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:24:11 +0000

I liked the Phantom Blonde…she was spunky!

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:08:32 +0000

Lise: Thank you. I was going to say something if no one else did. Also, something that MGK didn’t mention was the Mr. Manlypipe was actually kind of a sucky detective and it was BP who solved most of his cases. Yes, she had a huge crush on him that meant she let him take the credit, but Golden Age comics, what are you gonna do. And that costume is great. If I had a shot at writing for Marvel I’d bring back the Blode Phantom.

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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:13:50 +0000

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By: 01d55

01d55 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:53:50 +0000

How could she forget? Isn’t that the guy’s only special feature?

Blonde Phantom.

By: Bender

Bender — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:32:34 +0000

HA HA U FORGOT MY FACE IS LIEK STONE!

How could she forget? Isn’t that the guy’s only special feature?

By: Kingfisher

Kingfisher — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:52:24 +0000

Before there was Power-girl’s cleavage window, there was… Phantom Blonde’s belly window! Truly a more innocent time it was.

By: Agog

Agog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:31:59 +0000

Aw dude, I always thought she was great. Any chickadee who fights crime in an evening dress and heels is fine by me.

By: buzz

buzz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:55:21 +0000

I must ‘fess up to creating the Phantom Blonde, the Blonde Phantom’s daughter. I was co-writing a 3-part SHE-HULK story with Steve Gerber and could never keep the Blonde Phantom’s name straight, constantly reversing the words. So when her daughter decided to get involved in the superheroics, we decided to stick Phantom Blonde monicker on her.

By: NCallahan

NCallahan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:21:06 +0000

That poor bastard’s entire power… hell, his entire personality was built up around having a jar of cold cream deflected off his face. Stoneface could have been Sabertooth before there was Sabertooth. Instead, he’s just fucking Stoneface.