Boring and Bad@$$

Hiya!


You may wonder with my latest DA journal title. I haven't posted one in a while and i do want to share my thoughts on a trend that i find disturbing. To me at least.

I did a collaboration with an artist friend a while back. He's really heavy into anime and what he said disturbed me. He says that he doesn't draw soldiers or guys because he finds them "boring". When i asked him to further elaborate, he just said he prefers women. Maybe it’s because of his anime thing. Or maybe because he’s a guy. I don't know really.

So this lead me to think. What and why are some characters labelled as boring? Not just by most artists but by the regular joe as well. Characters like Superman, maybe Captain America before the Disney/Marvel movie onslaught and Civil War, you know the do gooder characters. When we were kids, we never thought of Supes as corny, lame or boring. Maybe because we didn't know better or maybe we were too young to notice. It must be the trend or sign of the times. We don’t have a clue that guys who wear hoods or masks and sport black clothing are supposed to be “bad@$$”. Heck, that word wasn’t invented yet back then. Are characters like He-Man and his ilk “boring”? Are the anime slim and slender looking guys and gals the new sexy?  Are buffed up and muscled crusaders of truth and justice out of fashion and passe’?

I’ve noticed that whenever an artist is given a “bad@$$” character to draw as an assignment, it’s like there’s minimal or no effort at all and he/she finds it “cool” but when you give them a “boring” character it then becomes a “challenge”. What gives?

I ask you guys, what or who to you is a boring character and why? It can be from comicbooks, movies, characters from novels or books. And who to you are bad@$$ characters?

The DA journal title is me mocking what the mainstream media and culture thinks is the standard. Any character could be corny, boring or bad@$$, in my opinion. It all boils down to characterization and content. So when did someone wearing black became a bad@$$? I thought that it has to do more with the attitude of the character and not with the color or kind of clothes that they are wearing. When did someone fighting for what’s right became “boring”?

What is wrong with trying to do the right thing?

This is meant  to be an outlet for you guys who want to post your thoughts regarding this topic, both the good and the bad.


And yes, the “boring” and the “bad@$$”.