Thursday, July 26, 2018

Fan artists explain why the wave of She-Ra fan art is subversive and uplifting

On July 16th, graphic novelist, screenwriter, producer, and animator Noelle Stevenson revealed four images online, and set off a tiny internet war. Those images were the first stills from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Stevenson’s upcoming Netflix reboot of the 1980s Filmation / Mattel collaboration She-Ra: Princess of Power, a companion show to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. They’re simple pictures — a few characters and a background — but they made some people extremely angry.

Stevenson’s She-Ra has sparked the inevitable internet outrage that accompanies any modern reboot, most of which...

Continue reading…

Disqus Comments