eBay dealings and Fleischer Cartoons
Oct. 5th, 2005 06:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doc_destructoNot much really going on right now. I've been selling a boatload
of Japanese comics on the eBay. Hopefully it'll end up netting
about $200. Which is great because we owe the mother-in-law $500
because the Monte Carlo (which we admittedly bought from the in-laws)
blew the gawddamned alternator and the cost of having that shit
replaced in Lexington is apparently $250 more than in Indianapolis (and
the low-ball price was from Pep Boys, a chain ferchrissakes!).
Luckily I've managed to accumulate a lot of crap over the years that
can be sold in large lots. For example, I'm selling all of my
Blade of the Immortal books, all the Kareshi Kano no Jijou, all the
HotGimmick and all of the Fruits Basket stuff. Which is good
because I don't really read most of them anymore and they have good
resale value as a large set.
Also, those of you who don't know much about cartoons or comics may find it hard to believe, but Lois Lane was a real hardass. In the old 1940's Fleischer Superman cartoons, sure, she ends up needing to be rescued a lot, but it's only because she's tenacious to the point of suicide. For example, in the short "The Arctic Giant" a giant dinosaur gets unthawed and runs amok. What does Lois Lane do? First, she tells Clark Kent he's a pussy, then she goes to get pictures of the damned thing. Being a dinosaur, it smashes buildings and attempts to stomp our intrepid reporter. Now, being a Superman cartoon, he naturally helps her out of said bind. But you know what? She GOES BACK! That's right, she runs back to the thing keep taking pictures and generally just piss it off. Which leads to Superman saving her from being eaten and giving her the 1940's equivalent of "What the fuck, lady?!" Her response? "Yeah, yeah, whatever." She's not even flustered at being nearly eaten. Rosy the Riveter a sissy compared to Lois.
On the other hand, I don't know where the hell the whole Superman-Lois Lane-Clark Kent love triangle comes in, because man does she snub Clark. Every scene at the Daily Planet is a hair's breadth removed from her just slapping Clark and yelling "Siddown, bitch!" She sabotages him at every turn, be it hiding press passes, stealing his car, locking him in closets or generally just telling him to go the fuck somewhere else. Sure, Superman ends up saving her ass and I suppose you could look at it from a chauvanist point of view that Superman/Clark LETS her behave that way and is laughing behind her back. But looking at how the episodes end, I think it's more Superman/Clark is having a laugh at himself at not knowing what to do around a woman who'd break his legs for a story.
And if you don't think so watch the short where Lois' train is being attacked by robbers and she picks up the tommygun from a fallen police officer and starts returning fire like Rambo. I don't think Rosy the Riveter even gunned down gangsters...
Also, those of you who don't know much about cartoons or comics may find it hard to believe, but Lois Lane was a real hardass. In the old 1940's Fleischer Superman cartoons, sure, she ends up needing to be rescued a lot, but it's only because she's tenacious to the point of suicide. For example, in the short "The Arctic Giant" a giant dinosaur gets unthawed and runs amok. What does Lois Lane do? First, she tells Clark Kent he's a pussy, then she goes to get pictures of the damned thing. Being a dinosaur, it smashes buildings and attempts to stomp our intrepid reporter. Now, being a Superman cartoon, he naturally helps her out of said bind. But you know what? She GOES BACK! That's right, she runs back to the thing keep taking pictures and generally just piss it off. Which leads to Superman saving her from being eaten and giving her the 1940's equivalent of "What the fuck, lady?!" Her response? "Yeah, yeah, whatever." She's not even flustered at being nearly eaten. Rosy the Riveter a sissy compared to Lois.
On the other hand, I don't know where the hell the whole Superman-Lois Lane-Clark Kent love triangle comes in, because man does she snub Clark. Every scene at the Daily Planet is a hair's breadth removed from her just slapping Clark and yelling "Siddown, bitch!" She sabotages him at every turn, be it hiding press passes, stealing his car, locking him in closets or generally just telling him to go the fuck somewhere else. Sure, Superman ends up saving her ass and I suppose you could look at it from a chauvanist point of view that Superman/Clark LETS her behave that way and is laughing behind her back. But looking at how the episodes end, I think it's more Superman/Clark is having a laugh at himself at not knowing what to do around a woman who'd break his legs for a story.
And if you don't think so watch the short where Lois' train is being attacked by robbers and she picks up the tommygun from a fallen police officer and starts returning fire like Rambo. I don't think Rosy the Riveter even gunned down gangsters...
