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Batman Villains – What Do You Know About Poison Ivy?

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:20:52 +0000

It’s sad that Pamela Isley, or Poison Ivy, became the way she did because of experiments. While she was taking Biology, her professor seduced her and injected her with poisons and toxins.

This caused Poison Ivy to transform into a plant-like menace to society. One of the Batman villains, Poison Ivy started out as a wealthy girl with parents who could care less.

After this has happened, Poison Ivy’s boyfriend suddenly passes away, and she drops out of school. She is gradually changing from Pamela Isley to Poison Ivy.

Moving from Seattle to Gotham City, Poison Ivy threatens the city with toxic spores unless they meet her demands. Batman, who has just entered the city the same year, is the only one who can stop Poison Ivy.

She is one of the Batman villains that uses her potions to make other super heroes fall in love with her. Batman stops her from hurting the city, and Poison Ivy gets locked inside a mental institution for the criminally insane.

Over the years, Poison Ivy’s plant-like powers develop until she is super human. One of her weapons is the fact that her lips are poison, so she is the only one of the Batman villains who can literally give the ‘kiss of death.’

Poison Ivy was introduced in the Batman comics for a better female super villain when people began to identify with Catwoman, and even sympathize with her. Poison Ivy gave readers and audiences another sexy female nemesis to hate.

Clothed in leaves, with flaming flower bedecked red hair, Poison Ivy was one of the greatest villains that Batman ever had.

You can read and see more about the history of poison ivy at http://www.batmanvillains.net/villains/poison-ivy.html a website where you can discover more about all your favorite batman villains.

What Manga Girls Read

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:20:29 +0000

of Japanese comics (known better as manga) fans grows daily among both men and women. Unlike American comics mostly targeting men, manga has a lot of sub-genres with some addressing exclusively women of various ages.

A manga is usually created by one (often with assistants) drawing a comics and writing texts. However there’s also group activity like the Clamp band, still a normal team is 3-4 people at most. Professional manga is next to amateur manga – doujinshi (dojinshi). The following is mostly about professional manga.

A popular genre is shojo (shoujo) manga literally meaning a young girl. So it targets women audience aged 10 to 18. Shojo manga was first created primarily by men but then many female writers have sprung since about 1969.

Shojo manga is multi-genre and -topic including historical drama and science fiction. It often describes romance and emotions pertaining specifically to girls.

Many publishing houses specialize in this type of manga – Shueish with Ribon monthly magazine, Kodansha with Nakayoshi magazine and others. Most series were first printed in such magazines and then serialized.

* Hot Gimmick by Miki Aihara

* Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya

* Peach Girl: Change of Heart by Miwa Ueda

* Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom by Hisaya Nakajo

* Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu, Anita Sengupta

* Kare First Love by Kaho Miyasaka

* Doubt by Kaneyoshi Izumi

* Happy Hustle High by Rie Takada

* The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa

* Beauty is the Beast by Tomo Matsumoto

A sub-genre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga called magical girls (maho shojo) tells about girls with superhuman abilities forced to fight evil and protect the Earth. Stories with magic and a transformation like Full Moon wo Sagashite often feature girls with a secret identity. Magical girls known in Japan as majokko (witch girl) generally don’t refer to modern magical girl anime first of which was Sally, the Witch in 1966. This genre counts hundreds of stories. Here’re just some except the ones mentioned before:

* Alice 19th by Yuu Watase

* Cardcaptor Sakura by Clamp

* Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi

* I-O-N by Arina Tanemura

* My-HiME by Hajime Yatate, Noboru Kimura

* Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi

Josei manga (ladies – ladies’ comics) is created mostly by women targeting late teenage and adult female audiences. Josei (seinen for male) means simply female and serves to move away from the primitive image of ladies’ comics.

The stories cover everyday life of Japanese women, sometimes at high school. Their style is a realistic version of shojo manga and tends to be a continuity of female comics.

Unlike idealistic shojo manga, josei comics portray realistic romance with more explicit and mature storytelling like Honey and Clover. Below are some series of popular manga:

* Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno

* Walking Butterfly by Chihiro Tamaki

* Bride of the Water God by Mi-Kyung Yun

* Suppli by Mari Okazaki

* The Other Side of the Mirror by Jo Chen

* With The Light by Keiko Tobe

* Inubaka: Crazy For Dogs by Yukiya Sakuragi

* Presents by Kanako Inuki

* IC in a Sunflower by Mitsukazu Mihara

Yaoi is fictional media on gay relationships but by and for females. Yaoi is abbreviated from Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi (neither climax, nor sense, nor denouement). Originally a pejorative fan term, now it has an extended and almost scientific meaning.

Known in Japan as boys’ love (BL or boizu rabu), yaoi includes parodies, original works, commercial and dojinshi works. However BL features adult males, while young boys stories refer to the shotacon genre. Both original and translated yaoi is now available internationally.

Lesbian stories in manga, anime and related Japanese media are slanged as yuri (girls love or garuzu rabu). Emotions (sometimes called shojo-ai by western fans) and sex are its 2 focuses. Springing from female-targeted (shoujo, josei) works, yuri today is present in male-targeted (shonen, seinen) ones too.

Female manga in English gradually gets more printed. The Web has seen many amateur translator groups targeting only women and sites to read manga online.

This Year’s Dc Skate Shoes

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:20:10 +0000

shoes are built for skateboarding as well as snowboarding. The incredible technology that was put into this shoe was included high friction so you can shred the mountain with safety.

This year DC skate shoes have a brand new winter selection to choose from. There are 11 new killer DC skate shoes. Every one you pass will stare at you with envy at these cool old school shoes. With the awesome graphics and the striking bold colors you will feel like you are the ruler of the world while wearing DC skate shoes. Some of the shoes that I like are the GALLENT S SE with its vibrant blue color and the material of choice Super Suede Plus it is a favorite of the variety.

The next type is called the Premier S. This is the second choice on the top four shoes. It is a real skater shoe. With its TPR toe guard and a much needed shock absorbing heel airbag it will make sure you feel safe and free at the same time. MANTECA 3 M S is the next pick out of the four. These are all for color and creativity. With extreme resistance to tear and scratch the soles have an unbelievable grip. These shoes aren’t just for looks they have features like elastic tongue holds and their reinforced upper half makes them an awesome DC skate shoe.

Last but not least on the top four is the SMITH 2.0 SSE this show off shoe is the newest series from the pro skater Ryan smith. These shoes have a sort of faded look and come in one solid color. The options are Black or Dark chocolate. Like all the DC skate shoes these skate shoes have excellent cup sole construction with a foam padded caller and tongue.

A little history behind the DC skate shoe’s company:

This cool shoe company grew from a plain old clothes factory to a remarkable action packed athletics company. And business is booming. The founders of this historic place’s names are Ken Block and Damon Way. DC has always pushed in the shoe fashion for men, women, and even children. With support by many pro skaters such as Rob Dyrdek, Danny Way, and Colin McKay in the release of ” The DC Video” showed the breathtaking talent and featured Danny Way breaking not just one but 2 world records. In 2004 the owners sold the company to Quicksilver for a total of 84 million dollars. That much money would be about 10 percent of Quicksilver’s sales today. Later the company decided to name their very own DC veteran Nick Adcock as their president. What will become of this loved corporation we will never know until then but for now all you skateboard riders this is the shoe that will help you become a better rider, and help you learn easier and faster because DC skate shoes can at least give you the comfort you need to keep on riding.