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brandynI'm getting too try hard with these titles.
Anyway, this post is just about whether or not I want to do a whole essay on one of my favorite comics of all time, Empowered. Almost done with a re-read (Currently reading Volume 10 of 12) and it is certainly something I'd be interested in talking about but it's also a very challenging book to talk about, due to it's origins. Because see, it started as a series of commissions of a certain type of scenario, the damsel in distress, specifically bondage, trope. Commissions that were done by a man. The first part of that sentence isn't so much the problem, it's the second. The thorny nature of the main conceit of the original sketches and stories is a throughline that is consistent throughout the story but it uses that as commentary on how society treats women and the general treatment of female Superheroes in general (Though less that second one) and it rocks at that. Alongside being a very genuine story of broken people who think they don't deserve love banding together and finding genuine love in each other.
Saying I like it is one thing but navigating the thorny nature of the book's premise while also singing it's praises would be a hell of a challenge. This is just me rambling, debating if it's worth it, I suppose lmao. I'll probably try but we'll see how dedicated I am to the craft.
Anyway, here's a scene from the Volume I'm reading right now.
Anyway, this post is just about whether or not I want to do a whole essay on one of my favorite comics of all time, Empowered. Almost done with a re-read (Currently reading Volume 10 of 12) and it is certainly something I'd be interested in talking about but it's also a very challenging book to talk about, due to it's origins. Because see, it started as a series of commissions of a certain type of scenario, the damsel in distress, specifically bondage, trope. Commissions that were done by a man. The first part of that sentence isn't so much the problem, it's the second. The thorny nature of the main conceit of the original sketches and stories is a throughline that is consistent throughout the story but it uses that as commentary on how society treats women and the general treatment of female Superheroes in general (Though less that second one) and it rocks at that. Alongside being a very genuine story of broken people who think they don't deserve love banding together and finding genuine love in each other.
Saying I like it is one thing but navigating the thorny nature of the book's premise while also singing it's praises would be a hell of a challenge. This is just me rambling, debating if it's worth it, I suppose lmao. I'll probably try but we'll see how dedicated I am to the craft.
Anyway, here's a scene from the Volume I'm reading right now.
