Re: First female-led strip in 2000AD?
Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 22:41
Halo Jones was really first class. A shame Alan Moore will never bring her back, though I can understand his reasons. Book three had some very adult themes running through it, and is worth re-reading.
I was thinking though that at least 2000ad had strong female supporting characters such as Anderson, Durham Red (mid-80s), Judge Hershey (1980), Crazy Crissy (from DR and Quinch), Venus Bluegenes and others.
Tangent:
Having a think about if there were any earlier female supporting characters in IPC's Battle comics 1975-1988 (and though I have not read any of the following, this must go for all war themed comics such as Victor, Commando, Warlord and others such as Bullet and Hotspur). I can think of Kate* who was Charley Bourne's sweetheart/later wife and WW1 nurse in Charley's War – interestingly when Scott Goodall took over for WW2 she became almost 'invisible'. There was 1 or 2 female Russian pilots in Johnny Red possibly as early as '79. I think there was a token woman in Action Force (mid-80s) and again in Storm Force (late-80s).
Of course WW1 and WW2 were fought by men, so you'd imagine there would not be too many women supporting characters and Battle was aimed at boys – though in 1982 there was a revamp with more general adventure themed tales such as 'The Hunters', which did not feature women either. There were some supporting male characters such as 'Goof' in Jinty and Tammy, though not many, so in that sense it seems that IPCs editors/writers were being fair.
Were there any female characters from Battle that I have missed? I must add here that I have not read every Battle comic – there were many, many issues. I have read quite a lot though.
And/Or were there any in the other war/action themed titles? It would be intriguing to know if there were more women in war themed comics.
*I vaguely recall that I think Kate gave Charley the white feather around 1981/2 and later became Captain Snell's nurse.
/// Humour comics adventure themed stories: These usually had a mix of boy and girl protagonists such as 'Ski-Board Squad' 1973 and Danielle Keen in 'Keen and Mustard' about football! in 1978. ///
I was thinking though that at least 2000ad had strong female supporting characters such as Anderson, Durham Red (mid-80s), Judge Hershey (1980), Crazy Crissy (from DR and Quinch), Venus Bluegenes and others.
Tangent:
Having a think about if there were any earlier female supporting characters in IPC's Battle comics 1975-1988 (and though I have not read any of the following, this must go for all war themed comics such as Victor, Commando, Warlord and others such as Bullet and Hotspur). I can think of Kate* who was Charley Bourne's sweetheart/later wife and WW1 nurse in Charley's War – interestingly when Scott Goodall took over for WW2 she became almost 'invisible'. There was 1 or 2 female Russian pilots in Johnny Red possibly as early as '79. I think there was a token woman in Action Force (mid-80s) and again in Storm Force (late-80s).
Of course WW1 and WW2 were fought by men, so you'd imagine there would not be too many women supporting characters and Battle was aimed at boys – though in 1982 there was a revamp with more general adventure themed tales such as 'The Hunters', which did not feature women either. There were some supporting male characters such as 'Goof' in Jinty and Tammy, though not many, so in that sense it seems that IPCs editors/writers were being fair.
Were there any female characters from Battle that I have missed? I must add here that I have not read every Battle comic – there were many, many issues. I have read quite a lot though.
And/Or were there any in the other war/action themed titles? It would be intriguing to know if there were more women in war themed comics.
*I vaguely recall that I think Kate gave Charley the white feather around 1981/2 and later became Captain Snell's nurse.
/// Humour comics adventure themed stories: These usually had a mix of boy and girl protagonists such as 'Ski-Board Squad' 1973 and Danielle Keen in 'Keen and Mustard' about football! in 1978. ///
there is absolutely no assimilation between the characters of Betsy Braddock in this issue and her X-Men profile. She may as well be Captain Britain's next door neighbour. Even Alan Moore's and Alan Davies' depiction of poor old Betsy's contrived appearance is so far removed from her current status. There really is nothing to correlate... apart from the name! I would pay no more than a tenner and that would be after I've had ten pints and not one less!