Silverlight Q & A Before the Attack

Host: Welcome to Royal Chat our guest this week is Crown Princess Josephine of the Fiercan Empire let's find out what's happening in her life.
Q: So how does it feel to be the Crown Princess of the Fiercan Empire?
Josephine: (Laughs) You make that sound so official. Who knows if I will even get the crown. You know about the trials the many, many trials. Look what happened to my uncle. (Looks Away). Anything can happen.
Q: Right. Of Course. So your leading the armies North this coming summer. What are you plans going to be when you reach Forestera?
J: You're a sharp shooter there. Look Forestera has been involved in activities that it knows Fierca does not approve of. However, though I admit we are heading there I will not say what we will be up to. (Intense stare). Next Question please.
Q: (Shivers and gulps)Your kingdom is by far the best on the face of this planet, on the face of history. As a current and future leader what do you plan to do to keep our status?
J: I plan to work hard on education. What got us to be such a great nation was hard work in the academic arena. We are so far ahead of the other nations we basically live in an entirely different planet because of it. Our technologies and our lifestyles have vastly improved since my father decided to invest 10 times more money into our educational systems when he took power. I hope to further that. Fierca has no limits.
Q: Impressive. Well princess any suitors at the moment?
J: ( Turns Red)Are you even allowed to ask such questions?
Q: Yup
J: Geez. Well not at the moment. Next question.
Q: (Laughs). Very well and this will be the last. Josephine there are many rumors that your uncle is building an army so large and vast in the south that when they shoot arrows they cover the sun. Is this army a threat to the empire? What do you say to this rumors?
J: (sighs). I say they're just rumors. My uncle is of my blood I understand he is angry for what happened but he'd never do such a thing. He is a Fiercan and this has been our way for thousands of years. He would never do such a thing. Besides my cousins have gone scouting and there is no such army in the South. It's impossible.
Q: I'm happy to hear that and I'm sure the rest of the Fiercan nation is happy to hear that as well. Well those are all the question we have for today come by next week for Royal Chat.

                                               

Comic book girl

I just wanted to comment on the environment of the comic book store by explaining a recent scenario I experienced.I walked into a comic book store that I had never been in L.A. with two of my best guy friends. I was looking forward to buying the new book regarding superman and his "NEW" hipster image. As an avid superhero enthusiast I'm pretty knowledgeable of the happenings in a comic book store and pretty much know a little about every superheroe. However, when I walked in the employee at this said comic book store walked past me and straight toward my guy friends. I guess since I was a girl he must of figured I was just tagging along while my friends were the actual consumers. Might I add my friends pretty much know zero about the comic book world so it just had me wonder how deeply embedded the idea that the comic books are only for boys is in the industry. It goes without saying that I had a nice long chat with said employee who afterward gave me his full attention. However, I find myself annoyed because I don't feel that I have to prove myself in anyway to be a consumer. Any ideas?

Silverlight Adjustments and Explanations

I wish to adjust and add to an earlier post in regards to Silverlight. In relations to her necklace I had said she used it to disguise her real appearance and enable her to move around her nation. I wish to change this and make it so that lighting her necklace enables her to turn into her superhero form.

                                                          


In Fierca the royal line is passed down from Father to Daugther to Mother to Son. She is next in line to the throne but many feel it is not right as many have been fighting her family's eligibility as the royal family since her uncle was denied the throne. In this world you do not simply get the throne because your the oldest or the right gender. You go through many tests to see if you are capable. It could be that a king or queen's children are all incapable so then the nephews and nieces are tried and so on. Josephine's uncle though the oldest and of the right gender failed the tests so her father took the throne as he passed. Something of this nature had not happen in hundreds of years. Those of the right gender and oldest almost always passed the tests. Her uncle infuriated and embarassed attempted the murder of his brother soon after but failed and was banished.

                                                                            

Josephine has always enjoyed war or not so much war but the prepartion and the determination one needed to overcome it. If she was not chosen to be queen and instead her sisters were then she would've liked to been appointed as general of her father's army. She is best known for her good temperment and excellent judgement. She is the eldest.

                                                              

In regards to powers only being reserved to royal families. There are twenty royal families who have been marrying one another for many centuries. However, never had a person ever been able to have more than one elemental powers. Through Fiercan Science they were able to change their genetics to be able to accept more than one power. Many of the nations are scared of this ability as the Fiercans are the only ones who can do this, and the race to discover this power is putting many on edge.

My Challenge

           For my respected challenge I reviewed Joseph Powell’s review of “Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Conrer Vivian Gussin Paley”. I chose this article because it referenced what we had discussed in our last class in regards to why boys are more likely than girls to be comic book purchasers and it talked about , “ boys and girls in their respected roles as superheroes and homemakers” ( Powell 218).In comic books, or at least the majority of them, girls are more submissive than boys. It is the boys that take action and the girls who just watch it happen. He talked about their dynamics and why they choose their respected roles. Society ,thus, has us think we have to be something even though we’re not.

              He states that it happens when were really young. Boys take the more assertive roles of robbers, and girls are the ones being robbed. I think that just goes to show the reason why boys are more so at a young age able to relate to being a superhero and get into reading comic books. Girls don’t see themselves in these comic books and don’t start reading them when their young. By the time their older they are to set in their ways and not as patient at trying to get to understand the comic book.   Therefore, I think this was a good article because it illuminates the reason why girls can not and are not such big fans of comic books. Society tells them it is not their place. Which is really sad, and unless the comic book world can change that, it could be the set thought that brings the comic book industry to its knees.

        In addition, I have a few suggestions in ways the comic book world can make their industry a more female friendly environment. First, I'd like to have many more female heroines. They are so out numbered by male heroes, and I feel a lot of the better writers out there are more hesistant to write for them. In order for girls to want to buy comics, they are going to have to want to emulate the characters in them and with the type of female heroines currently out there I can see why they hesistate. Secondly, the stores have to be set up in a way that is easier for girls to understand the organization. Girls like organization something many comic book stores never tend to have. Why not have like a small brochure explaining to them how everything is laid out so they don't accidently open a comic book that will forever turn them off. Thirdly, come on gentlemen help a girl out? I think the employees at the store have to be willing to walk up to a girl and ask them if they need help with something. So many times comic book employees just sit behind their register not really doing anything. They should be more proactive.
                                                   

Powell, Jerry. Winterthur Portfolio. 2/3 ed. Vol. 21. N.p.: University of Chicago, n.d. 218-19.

JSTOR. Web. 15 Dec. 2010. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1181085>.

Early Drawings

Although I know I'm no artist here are my first attempts at drawing Silverlight. On the left you see her while she is a regular princess and on the right is when she is on the road. The colors didn't come out when I scanned but the primary colors for the sketch on the left is grey and pink and on the right it is brown and green.

                                                     

Wonder Woman 604

                                                                  

       This issue really struck at my heart strings. I was saddened to a great extent as the battle that Wonder Woman faced was against the being who killed her mother. The issue commences with his introduction and Wonder Woman discovering this charred being used to be a regular man or at very least a being in a human's body. He was a soldier who was hired by governments to kill and torture. He murdered so many people and didn't even think twice about it. He liked killing. However, one day his plans go askew and the friends and family of those he killed capture him. He is torturned and lit on fire but right before he dies he makes a deal with an evil being that if he can kill all the Amazonians he will be returned to his former self. He takes the offer and does a good job at killing those beings.  Wonder Woman and he fight an epic battle. The charred being wraps her in the famous lasso, however, Wonder Woman discovers that fire hurts him. She is willing to die in the fire with him but her mother saves her as she has been in the fire all that while.  Her mother finishes the battle for her and Wonder Woman lives. Wonder Woman quickly gathers her senses and wants to capture the rest of the evil crew but they fly away. Although, what she has suffered is great Wonder Woman ends her day happily as she learns to  fly and for a split second she has hope.       
         This issue was a real emotional one. Wonder Woman suffers a lot of grief meeting her deceased mother and having to fight the charred being who murdered her is no small feat but she does it. I felt the intensity  of the entire issue and felt myself rooting for Wonder Woman. The next issue does not come out until late December and though the project will be over I know Ill get that issue as well.

Wonder Woman issue 603

                                                      
 This issue of The All-New Wonder Woman was pretty intense. She has finally escaped from those who are trying to capture her, however, when they meet up with the mercenaries who are to help them find their new safe haven they find that they are all dead. Wonder Woman sees that it has happened quite recently and so she searches for the culprits only to find that they are these evil looking harpies. She starts this epic battle but the other Amazonians can't see these harpies so she is left to fend for herself. These evil harpies steal her soul and send her to the underworld and Wonder Woman discovers that Hades has been missing for quite sometime and that the underworld is in utter chaos. Charon the man who usually escorts the souls into the underworld informs her of all the happenings in that world and tells her she needs to fight Cerberus to escape the underworld.  She meets up with the Harpies again and defeats them but when she meets up with Cerberus (the three headed dog) he simply just bows down to her. When she finally escapes the underworld and returns the  men who were following her have caught up as she was in a deep slumber when all this was happening. The men, however, make a deal with her that if she meets their boss that they will let the other Amazonians go. She agrees. The other Amazonians go and she meets the evil being that killed her mother. They are  to fight.

                                                              

     This issue illuminated a lot of issues. It basically showed how everything in regards to this Ancient Greek world is in utter chaos. If the underworld is in bad shape one can only imagine how the other gods are faring. Yet, I can't help but think about all the plot holes this issue has. For one, why couldn't these men have finished off Wonder Woman when she was asleep? Why did they wait for her to wake up? If the evil boss man was really this evil then why would he give Wonder Woman such an opportunity? I just thought that part was pretty comical. Overall, though the issue did help foreshadow the utter chaos that is about to ensue. I can't wait for the next issue.
                                                                     
In addition, if some of you aren't really aware of the awesome  might of Wonder Woman or can't really envision what she is capable of check this clip out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsS1MPnA-vs&feature=related