I’m getting the impression that the more I talk on this topic, the more phallic my titles will become, until I end up with “penis-oriented title.”

I’ve been reading more on Girls Read Comics (And They’re Pissed) (I love that title), and I’ve been thinking more on the stuff I said last time. Today I’m going to go over a future plot point from Brimzero. I have a few more, but this is the only one I have in mind which wouldn’t massively spoil the plot.

In the first draft of Brimzero, Tracy starts out the comic wearing a skirt. The two times I drew her below the waist in chapter one of the current draft, I drew her wearing pants, but I’m calling it a continuity error brought on by my poor memory. Anyhow, Tracy is taking up what boils down to a martial art, so Morgin loans her a pair of baggy jeans to replace the skirt. This has always been in the script, because A) it’s common sense, a skirt is useless for anything except sitting or standing, and B) I detest skirts for the aforementioned reason. Although I agree with Karen Healey’s criticism of a flying superheroine wearing a skirt, I did not write that scene in response to her.

I also would like to register my discontent with Supergirl, I Choo-Choo-Choose You. Now, I’m familiar with the joke from the Simpsons, and I realize it fits the content of the article, but when I see “Choo Choo” and a bunch of pink, my mind immediately goes to one place and one place only, and not even a mention of Something Positive in this post is bordering on blasphemy. Though I’m willing to bet that although S*P seems like something she’d like, she never got past the first strip, for the obvious reasons.

Ah well, something to think about while I’m staring at a blank sheet of paper and weeping gently at the thought of yet another night without anything drawn.