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PTG Episode 51 is brought to you by She-Ra – Princess of Power. Without anything even close to a decent Wonder Woman animated series on television in the 1980s, this spin-off of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was THE “girl power” show of its time, the one show where most of the heroes were women, they took care of business (and the villains) without needing to be bailed out by men, and the one significant heroic character that was a guy, Bow, was … well, he was kind of a wimp. Trivia I just discovered while retrieving this link from Amazon.com–J. Michael Stracynzski actually wrote NINE episodes of the She-Ra series, as well as fifteen episodes of the He-Man series. Turns out I’ve been a fan of JMS a LOT longer than I realized!

In this episode we talk about She-Ra and other girl-targeted animated series of the 1980s in the course of tracing the rise of the “fangirl”, a development in western civilization that I thank my lucky stars for every single day, and the growing influence of fandom’s changing demographic on Hollywood and media at large. Inspiration for the discussion came in part from an ongoing series of articles published by Newsarama by writer Vaneta Rogers, and we look forward to seeing more articles in the series in the future. We also cover top comic pick from the “Big Two” from last week, and EricathePimp reviews two novels from Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos and Cetaganda, two books from her Vorkosigan series. Enjoy this, THEN be sure to join us tomorrow night, Saturday, Sept. 12th, at 8PM as we broadcast LIVE from A Comic Shop in Winter Park. Their owners, Jason and Aaron, are both celebrating birthdays this week, so they decided to have a HUGE party at their store and to invite a special guest, Marvel and Vertigo comics writer … JASON AARON!

If you’re local to Orlando or Winter Park and you’re in the area Saturday, stop on by and say hello! Jason Aaron will be signing and meeting fans at the store from 3-8PM, and hopefully he’ll be willing to sit in with us for a segment to talk about his work on Ghost Rider, Wolverine: Weapon X, and his independent series, Scalped. There will also be a live concert in the parking lot outside ACS starting at around 9:30PM, hence our early sign-off time. It’s going to be one very interesting night–hope you can join us!