pagerunner-j:

As many things as I like about the Critical Role comics, and there are many, there’s something that keeps bothering me:

Could we let the women talk? Please?

We were promised Keyleth this issue. She spent a good chunk of it either non-verbal or off-camera. Most of the dialogue was right back to “hey, watch me being witty!” and the majority of that went to men. Vex is mostly coming off as annoyed-sibling and while the banter’s good by one light, the scenes feel Vax-slanted enough to me that there’s this creeping undertone of nagging there, and I don’t love it. I also still don’t love that last issue, one of the few women who got to talk didn’t even get a name. (The new faces this time didn’t either, although I expect more will be revealed.)

One of the reasons I love Critical Role is that while yes, as usual, the women are outnumbered, they still matter. But the comics feel tilted in the guys’ favor enough that it’s making me twitch.*

end vent.

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*No pun intended.

Yeeeaaaah, the way the sibling dynamic and really, Vex’s existence has been handled so far has bothered me since day one. Shows that someone can talk the talk about being inclusive like Colville does frequently, but still kind of fail to walk the walk. Too bad.