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Here's to the Ladies Who Launch: Ten great TV superheroines


Project Runway designer Chris March likes his super-ladies, too!

Like many gay boys growing up, I was fascinated by tv shows like The Six Million Dollar Man and Batman, but was even more intrigued with their distaff counterparts. Okay, maybe "intrigued" isn't the right word, more like "fanatical". Put a woman with big hair and day-glo spandex in front of me, and i was enthralled. Even today, when I go to movies like the X-Men series, I'm much more interested in seeing Storm fry someone than seeing Wolverine slice & dice (unless he's partially clothed while doing it). I've decided to put my lifetime of experience to good use, and I hereby present (in no particular order) my Top Ten Live Action TV Superheroines!.

10. Isis

"Oh zephyr winds which blow on high, lift me now so i can fly". Isis is not as well known as her 70's sisters, Wonder Woman and The Bionic Woman, but she probably has a bigger cult following. Joanna Cameron played the Egyptian Goddess on Saturday mornings for two seasons starting in 1975, often paired with Shazam!, thus giving sexually confused boys their weekly helpings of cheesecake and beefcake. Her superpowers were always a bit ill defined, and they usually involved her having to recite Nipsey Russell style rhymes. In this scene, she stops an M. Emmett Walsh wannabe with...glowing balls of light?

9. Batgirl

"Where do you come from, where do you go, what is your scene, baby, we just gotta know" When Yvonne Craig joined the cast of Batman in the third season, it was supposed to provide a boost to the novelty show's sagging ratings. It didn't happen, which is inexplicable considering how much more cool Batgirl was than the dumb and dorky dynamic duo. She had the cooler costume, the cooler ride, the cooler moves (a Vegas fan kick!), and instead of changing costumes in a dark and musty cave, she pressed a button to reveal her own personal bondage room! And dig this theme song, cool cats!

You can see the rest of these costumed divas after the break!

DC Comics has its first gay title superhero character. And he's got issues.

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