Let's Talk Lady Shivaさんのイラストまとめ

#NationalKissingDay?

Look, I know he probably should be there somewhere (like at the very bottom) but I'm petty enough to not put Batman there solely because I think he's an absolute drag and a big part of the reason why DC's martial arts corner is so underdeveloped despite its awesome characters.

Just so you know that there is NOTHING I won't nitpick, I'm gonna say ONE thing I don't like about Lady Shiva's Arkham Origins design:

I wish it had some kind of inside lining for the coat/jacket.

Something about that ed's note gets me. Like... that's the cultural touchstone you wanna use to explain the concept of a staff to kids in 1974? Aaalrighty.

@Cyberjaeger Definitely, yeah. On a surface level it's about modernizing his design, making him look more like an 80s badass than your standard hard-boiled detective. But on a deeper level it can totally be read as Vic "loosening up" a little, leaving the straight-laced Ditko look behind.

... going completely against the grain of everything that makes a character three-dimensional and well-rounded, but that to me is also a chance to write something truly special. And it's a chance that I don't think anyone other than O'Neil has fully taken yet.

... writers who consider Shiva a generic ninja chick to trot out when they need an action scene (a practice that admittedly started waaay before Batgirl #25) and writers who think she's secretly carrying a ton of fears and regrets hidden deep below the surface.

... and that she'll never miss a chance to remind Vic and the reader that it doesn't really matter. That figuring her out won't change her actions and won't change her either. At best it'll change our perception of her, or ourselves, but it still won't change a thing.

Seriously, you give me a panel of Cass, Letitia and Mary all doing the fist in hand salute at the statue and I might just cry a little.

I don't wanna put anyone on the spot but if you're drawing a sleeveless Lady Shiva and she doesn't have some wiry, super-toned, Bruce Lee-ian, "sleeper chokehold a Terminator" kinda arms, are you really drawing Lady Shiva?