The Future Of Heroes Is Female

It took long enough, but with Captain Marvel flying into theatres, women are finally getting their fair chance to save the world.

- Eric Ducker

What to do when an extremist group decides to gather at your local bar? Inside a cultural and constitutional quagmire When director Rachel Talalay went to San Diego Comic-Con in 1995 to promote her film Tank Girl, based on a British comic about a superpower-less woman who, well, drives a tank, the fest was a fraction of the spectacle it is today. Back then, the event was a more honest celebration of comic books, with far less coopting by studios looking to push their movies and TV shows. That’s mostly because movies and TV shows based on comic books were rare. According to Talalay, who now directs for television on shows including The Flash and Supergirl, another crucial difference between Comic-Con of the 1990s and Comic-Con today was how few women filed inside the convention center. “When I took Tank Girl there, I brought in this female audience who had nothing,” Talalay says. “The only women in Comic-Con were the booth babes.”