Various and sundry thoughts from the mind of Mindy this week: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear that name, was decommissioned this week after 50 years of service. The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier made her maiden voyage on January 12, 1962 and her first mission was tracking and monitoring…
Throwing my $0.02 in on Martha Thomases’s column last week concerning big boobs, ‘roidal musculature, and body image… Readers of this column know very well my love of Kara Zor-el, i.e. Supergirl, as she was portrayed during the Silver Age. Debuting in Action Comics #252 (May 1959), Kara’s look was designed by Al Plastino with…
Well, I haven’t heard Adam Sandler’s Chanukah Song yet – the Festival of Lights starts at sunset on Saturday, December 8th – but I did hear a rant about the War on Christmas on the radio the other day. Yep, it’s that time of year again. Hallmark Channel has preempted Little House On The Prairie…
We first meet Sandy on the television. She’s down in the Caribbean wreaking havoc on Jamaica and the other islands. We are warned that she might come to the East Coast. Most people shrug. A panicked populace does not yet raid the supermarkets. By Sunday the East Coast governors are declaring states of emergency. There…
Ms. Newell lives, works and writes from New Jersey. Sadly, as of this typing she’s only living in New Jersey, and she’s doing so without power. Ergo, no computer. Ergo, no column. It looks like Mindy wins the race. Gold, Hauman, and Ostrander got their power back fairly early; Thomases got hers back Saturday morning….
Last week I wrote about Lois Lane (here) for the first time since 1986 and my mini-series âWhen It Rains, God Is Crying,â which was edited by ComicMixâs own Robert Greenberger. It got me to thinking about Lois. First, a little history on the mini-series, which was published in 1986. 1986 was the year that…
There’s a lot of hogwash being said by Republicans these days concerning women. Legitimate rape. (What the hell is that?) A woman has the ability to shut down her ovaries if she doesn’t want to get pregnant. (Gee, I wish I had known that.) Contraception should not be covered by health insurance. (But Viagra and…
There is a wonderful thing happening for me and other girls and women who read comics. A new hero has appeared. As frequent readers of this column should remember, Kara Zor-el, Supergirl, was the character and hero that rocked my pre-adolescent world. She was smart, brave, and not only did she have the same powers…
Kelly Sue DeConnick rocks! Women had made their mark as pilots well before World War II. Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran, Nancy Harkness Love, Bessie Coleman, and Harriet Quimby were some of the women holding records in aviation. When war broke out in Europe, Cochran, Harkness and other women went to England to volunteer to fly…
âI hate endings!â said the Doctor to Amy (in last nightâs episode of Doctor Who, âThe Angels Take Manhattanâ) as he ripped out the last page of the novel he was reading. The Doctor always rips out the final page of a book, he tells Amy, because he doesnât want the story to end. The…
Weird comics synchronicity. My cousin Penny met and married a guy named Ken Landgraff – and no, I had absolutely nothing to do with it. Some of you may Ken through his work for Marvel and DC back in the day when he drew Nightwing and Flamebird, Hawkman, and Wolverine. He also worked in the…
So whatâs in Mindyâs head today? I havenât been to a convention in a long, long time, but reading about some of the ComicMix crewâs sojourn to Baltimore (here and here) lit up my temporal lobe â thatâs the part of the brain responsible for memory, for you non-biology majors out there. James Doohan (Chief…
