What do girls want to see in their comic books? 11-year old “Haileyscomic” is a girl who has recently started getting into comics and is helping us answer that question. This summer, HC is updating Pink Raygun on what she’s buying, what she likes and what she doesn’t like. This week HC picked up an issue of A Boy and His Shadow and an issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A Boy and His Shadow Part 3
A shadow is just something that is there, there is no use for it. Really, shadows are something we could all live without. Well, this comic book has taken that and twisted it backwards. In fact, if it weren’t for shadows, A Boy and his Shadow would be downright. . . boring.
This comic book is completely original. Instead of being about someone with weird supernatural-powers, its about a boy who’s shadow gets him into trouble. The art style of this series communicates well without any dark or confusing colors to back that up. The plot left me wanting more – it was mysterious and unexplained, but not so much that it was impossible to know what was going on.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home Part IV #4 June 2007
I could tell that ‘Buffy’ was based on a TV show because it was written in the style of many action/adventure movies. I mean that it would get to an exciting part and then switch to something new and then there would another exciting thing and it would switch again. This is something that I like in some movies, but in comic books it can be pretty confusing.
One thing that I’ve never liked in comic books is that even when a girl is doing something that people find unusual (like slaying a vampire) they are still all prissy and showy. I think this series captures that feature, too.
About Haileyscomic: I am a girl but I’m not obsessed with how I look or what’s in style or anything like that. I am also not trying to be just like a boy. I like action-adventure, but not fantasy and magic.
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So you don’t like “strong girls saving the world” and at the same time still beeing a girl who does girly stuff?? Is that the point?
i think that’s normal because girls are girls and boys are boys. And they keep behaving like girls/boys. That’s why they do the girly stuff.
@LadyMink: je pense que tu parle bien le francais! J’ai tout compris.
^^ I think the last few comments are drifting into a whole ‘nother bag of trouble with everyone’s personal idea what “girly” behaviour is or isn’t.
I’m just going to take your view of what you like in a girl’s behaviour as stated (as it’s your view and we weren’t invited to read your column with the set-up that you have to be a girl-cliché yourself) and enjoy your impressions of something I’ve been reading since I was 13 or 14 myself 25 years ago.
It’s just not how I read comics these days (then again I basically only read manga now) and especially interesting and different because of that.
I hope you’re enjoying your experience!
I have never watched the buffy t.v. series before but this morning I was flipping trough channels and I saw that it was on so I watched mabye 20 minutes of it, and what I saw of it I liked better than the comic book. like I said it works for movies and shows, but not for comic books.
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