Publisher’s Weekly Booklife section recently reviewed Boobs of Steel for the October release of their magazine! “Finney (author of Tabula Rosa) begins his Boobs of Steel series with an exploration of the Amazon archetype and its literary, creative, and cultural influence. “Classic superheroes have been systematically insulted, debased, and then replaced by so-called ‘inclusive and diverse’ females,” he writes, asserting that those changes have negatively impacted comics. Finney looks at examples, past and present, of comic and film’s female icons, including notables like She-Hulk, Xena, and, the “seed from which all our modern action heroines sprung from,” Wonder Woman—taking note of their symbolism as well asRead More →

Boobs of Steel: The tendency for the strongest physical female fighter in a group or cast to also have the largest breasts.-TV Tropes Lara Croft. Power Girl. Tifa Lockhart. They’re three of the most loved and loathed characters in all pop-culture. Since the late 1990s all three have also been favorite targets for outraged feminists and woke keyboard warriors who believe that a bountiful cup size is a crime against humanity. Within these pages, sci-fi author J. Ishiro Finney chronicles the history of the Boobs of Steel trope, its associated archetypes, and the impact these Amazons have had on our art, literature, and cultural landscape. OftenRead More →