All this news of a father hacking Donkey Kong so that his young daughter could play as the princess rescuing Mario is a great case in point as to why I am drawn to graphic novels. There are still a lot of damsel in distress types and the over-sexing of heroines is a little annoying sometimes, but I think the genre offers stronger female characters than most in literature.
When I was a baby Melissa, I was definitely a Barbie girl. At one point I even wanted to be a professional cheerleader - you'd have to know me personally to understand how completely opposite my personality is to that of a cheerleader (stop laughing, you may fall out of your chair). It was probably around age 10 or 11 that my cousin's love for comics (graphic novels as well, but for simplicity I am just typing comics although the 2 are differnt) wore off on me.
From that point on, I geared towards characters like Storm or Psylocke: smart, strong and perfectly capable of holding their own. Now I love seeing characters like Michonne fill that independent female role.
Hence, part of my motivation for this little journey. I certainly don't want to be the damsel - I'd much rather be the bad-ass girl rescuing the boy.
I will give you that Michonne is a total bad-ass. In her world it probably she has to be. I think that most of the women in the Walking Dead are pretty BA. I will say that if I was plopped down in the Walking Dead universe, and I could pick teams. I would probably pick Carol over Michonne. TV Carol, not comic book Carol. With Carol, if I was bitten I feel that she would at least wait until I turned before putting something sharp in my head. Michonne, not so much. TV Carol has come along way from her abusive husband and zombie daughter without totally losing her mind.
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