Fic links from Comica Obscura (comics, various)

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Comics is one of the most complicated and fraught fandoms for women, on the one hand offering opportunities for stories about extraordinary, five-times-larger-than-life women who by definition will transcend normal physical limitations and mundane lives to do remarkable things, but on the other tending to cater to the most unattractive male adolescent power fantasies. The potential keeps drawing us back in, even though the reality can be horribly frustrating. liviapenn and I ran an obscure-character challenge for comics called Comica Obscura for a couple of years, and the thing I'm most proud of about the challenge is that the ratio of male to female feature characters was almost fifty-fifty. Behind the cut, a list of the stories that featured female characters:



A Terrible Fluidity
Featured Character: Mina Murray [League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]


the author of all this (our sorrow)
Featured Character: Mina Murray [League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]

Not to besiege walled cities
Featured Character: Tara Chace [Queen and Country]

Que viene el coco
Featured Character: Mina Murray [League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]

this is mine you can't take it
Featured Character: Zora [Powers]


don't look back (ride the wind)
Featured Character: Rogue [Ultimate X-Men]

Kaleidoscope Eyes
Featured Character: Karolina [Runaways]

We Make the Road by Walking
Featured Character: Rachel Summers [X-Men]

UnsortedFeatured Character: Gwen Stacy [Ultimate Spider-Man]


Metamorphosis
Featured Character: Sasha Bordeaux [Batverse]

North Star
Featured Character: Sasha Bordeaux [Batverse]

Doubt and Awakening
Featured Character: Lady Shiva

En Haut
Featured Character: Lady Shiva

My Daytime Eyes
Featured Character: Carrie Kelly [Legends of the Dark Knight]

Yesterday, for a long while
Featured Character: Barbara Gordon [toonverse]


To See Ourselves in Telescopes
Featured Character: Zatanna [Seven Soldiers]

Obfuscation
Featured Character: Linda Park [The Flash]

Vertigo
Featured Character: Sue Dibny [DCU]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Parthenon
Featured Character: Io [Wonder Woman]


Mentor Management
Featured Character: Mia Dearden [Green Arrow]

Stories to Tell
Featured Character: Cissie King-Jones [Young Justice]

Tell
Featured Character: Cissie King-Jones [Young Justice]

Definitely Not A Boring Afternoon
Featured Characters: Melanie (Crackshot) [Green Arrow]


A Time
Featured Character: Vera Black [Justice League Elite]

The Dance of the Harlequin
Featured Characters: Molly Mayne-Scott, Dr. Charles McNider [JSA]

Say Goodnight, Grace
Featured Character: Grace Choi [Outsiders]

Bright Iron, Bitter Ashes
Featured Character: Cinderella [Fables]

Death to Lesbian Journalists
Featured Character: Yelena Rossini [Transmetropolitan]

Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It
Featured Character: Thessaly [Sandman]

An Invention, In Parts
Featured Character: Mazikeen [Lucifer]

Matrices of half-tone dots
Featured Character: Molly O'Reilly [Books of Magic]

Thursday's Child
Featured Character: Elaine Belloc [Lucifer]

Better Than Boring
Featured Character: Jenny Sparks [The Authority]

Saltwater
Featured Character: Aleph [Global Frequency]

The Only Constant
Featured Character: Jenny Sparks [The Authority]




Give one a shot! There are the deadliest martial artists in the world, genius hackers, top spies, magicians, crackerjack journalists...With many independents as well as the more traditional superhero lines represented, you just might find something new and cool.