Posted in: Recent Updates, Run Around | Tagged: bbc, doctor who
Thursday Runaround – Skirting All The Issues As Usual
SkirtWatch: Bleeding Cool readers should be familiar with the concept of The Daily Mail, the British closest equivalent to Fox News.
Columnist Alison Pearson, in a piece illustrated by the full length shot of Karen Gillen with a short skirt in Doctor Who, seen on the left, she writes;
Since when was Doctor Who's assistant supposed to be sexy? They're meant to be one of the boys, running around saving distant worlds. Is it too much to ask that family TV remains the one universe yet to be invaded by nuts magazine? What next – K9 as a pitbull and Cybermen become Cyberchicks with metal boobs? Doctor Whooarr? No thanks.
Absolutely Karen, this is after all a children and a family show, and all this modern progressive liberalism has just let to this recent sexist…
Oh wait…
And of course;
Although she was wise to never have seen Torchwood.
MillerWatch: It's official, Frank Miller is not directing Buck Rogers.
GlitchWatch: People are receiving notes that orders for the Deadpol Secret Invasion HC they placed a while back, are suddenly being cancelled… was this, and Nation X HC, the beginning of what would become The Glitch?
YouTubeWatch: Is this the first Superman movie from a hundred years ago? Well, no, but it is rather fun.
CensorWatch: And Steve Bissette dives into the firing of Marv Wolfman from DC Comics and the continuing battles over content.
VariantWatch: Some new Iron Man variant covers to Marvel titles;