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notes, "caused quite a bit of disdain and laughter in the audience
familiar with the source material in indian sex comics," since the series isn't erotic.
But women tend to come up short in comics usually short skirted or skimpy topped.
As Birkemoe says, "If people don't think of sex when they think of comics,
sadly they do think of sexism the ridiculous super-heroine costumes, fighting
crime in high-heels and spilling out. More often than not, these criticisms are
sadly justified easily in indian sex comics. And sex in
superhero books often seems to involve dehumanization of women. There is a
website listing the victims of "Women in Refrigerator Syndrome" all
the females in male superhero books who've been brutalized or killed as a plot
device.
So there's this great indian sex comics limited series for everyone. It
dressed up with a plot about super heroes saving world but includes mixed media
and stories-within- indian sex comics stories,
takes on Cold War politics, metaphysics, even nature of time itself and its
ticking along, until sex comes into the picture. There is something just too
crude and reductive, as nastily fascist as the world the series is criticizing,
about a woman falling in love with her rapist in indian sex comics. Maybe that is because Watchmen
focus on men. Even the love making scene between Nite Owl and Silk Specter in
the film version, as Peter Birkemoe, owner of Toronto comic store.
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