I was just thinking about the scope of the older female in comics, ok, superhero comics
In my entirely non-researched, with absolutely-no-thought-deeper-than-providing-a-punchline survey, I have concluded that there are three types of Older Women characters in comics.
Those that are Immortal and still look like they're in their late 20s.... Aunt May... and Amanda Waller.
All I can say is, thank God for the Wall.
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07-06-2007, 04:42 AM #1Super Moderator
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Older Women in Comics Should Be Good
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07-06-2007, 05:00 AM #2Senior Member
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you forgot blind al :D
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07-06-2007, 11:15 AM #3misanthrope
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And Madame Web.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlen
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07-06-2007, 11:18 AM #4Closet comic geek
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How are you defining older? Over 40 or senior citizen age?
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07-06-2007, 02:56 PM #5Super Moderator
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Over 40ish?
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07-06-2007, 03:48 PM #6Whitmore: Rebirth!
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You left out the women who are introduced as old and become inexplicably younger and better-looking as time goes on.
Iris Allen, Dr. Ashley Kafka, Jonah Jameson's wife...surely I'm forgetting some.
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07-07-2007, 03:38 AM #7Thinning the Herd
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Originally Posted by Sean Whitmore
Aunt Petunia... sort of.
After years and years of being referenced by Ben Grimm as being an old, maiden aunt, Byrne decides to finally show her on panel-- as a young hottie. A clunker of an idea in the otherwise superb and creepy FF tale "Wendy's Friends".
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07-07-2007, 06:52 AM #8Thinking Machine
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Aunt May is Bad Ass.
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07-07-2007, 08:40 AM #9Postmodern Man
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Between arsenic-cookie Aunt May and The Golden Oldie, there's no way she couldn't be the baddest old lady in comics.
Go !@#$ yourself.
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07-07-2007, 08:53 AM #10Thinking Machine
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She has some stiff competition from Frau Totenkinder. Originally Posted by Jack Zodiac
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07-07-2007, 09:41 AM #11Postmodern Man
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Good call. And on that note, Mignola's Baba Yaga from the Hellboy books is a tough broad. And Hecate, too, but she's one of those "old, immortals who stay young," so she doesn't count.
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07-08-2007, 08:37 PM #12Forgive Friedrich's Debt
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How about women who are young when they're introduced, but get older as the series goes on? There are various such characters in Love & Rockets, For Better or for Worse, and, I assume, Gasoline Alley.
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No mention of Ma Hunkel yet? For shame; the woman's in her eighties and still managed to throw a good right hook or two.
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07-10-2007, 10:23 AM #14misanthrope
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I forgot Callisto from the Morlocks. She's certainly not elderly, but she's definitely got to be in her 40s or older.
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07-10-2007, 01:53 PM #15Whitmore: Rebirth!
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She's another one who was introduced as looking rather hideous, and as time went on, slowly morphed into an attractive woman with an eye patch. Originally Posted by brundlefly
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