Too buff for the critics? Or just a little typical?

Like every great author Jon thinks that he's being held down by the man. However, Jon goes a little bit beyond that. For a man who really hates feminists and women in general, he's absolutely dead set on the idea that the reason he can't get published is because his female lead isn't 'conventionally' attractive.

Really Jon? You don't think it could possibly be your terrible writing style, your incapability to spell properly or use correct grammar, complete lack of characterisation, lack of a diverse cast, insufferable political soapbox or your inability to describe anything important in any kind of detail?

No? You still think it's that the male dominated industry just don't like the muscle-building type?

I'll give Jon one thing, he's right in saying that the industry (or industries counting comics) do only want one kind of woman, but I highly doubt that this is the real problem Jon is actually facing. Maybe he'd have more fans if Morgalla was 'conventionally' pretty, but we all know the story and writing would still suck so bad that it would never in a million years get published. So this isn't a primary problem for Jon but I think he likes to mention it so much because he thinks it gives him 'feminist points'.

Every time he points out that Morgalla isn't a 'typical, blonde, big-chested' woman, it feels like he thinks he deserves a cookie or something.

Not to mention he has something odd against Barbie. Then again that's probably because she's the so called 'epitome' of white femininity and she probably reminds him of all the really good looking girls in his life who turned him down.

Don't mess with Barbie; she'll cut you bitch.

He even tries to break down Morgalla's figure but effectively fails. He mentions imagining her to have a gymnasts figure yet draws her with the figure of a body-builder  So which is it Jon? Is she a body-builder or a gymnast, those are two pretty distinct fucking figures that don't really coincide. Not to mention just fighting on a daily basis doesn't make you a body builder. I did karate for five years and my sensei had done it for thirty; he didn't look like Jasper's Hellaids mutation after all those years. To be a body builder you have to weight lift and train, yet Jon makes no specific notes in the book as to either Morgalla's or Jasper's training routine. Jon's contradicted himself; he says Morgalla's figure comes from fighting but you don't get a body-builder figure from fighting- and I know he's going for body-builder because he talks about it so often. So, we have a figure that's inconsistent with her work out routine, but maybe it's in the demons genetics to be that big! Too bad Jon doesn't fucking explain anything.

Jon, you're not doing this because you're liberal or body image positive for women. You're doing this because it's your fetish and you fetishise women. 

P.S. This is a female body-builders figure. 

This is a female gymnasts figure. 

PRETTY BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE JON

4 Billion Dollars? Imagine all the pussy Jon could buy

The crude title is because it's Halloween and I'm a cranky witch living in accommodation where I can't light candles. So Jon, feel my wrath.

Jon's going on about Lucas selling out to Disney after having an early career where he started out hating people with 'more business and no art'.

Let's get this straight, in certain terms it's completely correct to say that Disney is literally the devil itself when it comes to being a gigantic corporation that controls most of the media and enjoys that sweet, sweet sin of soulless greed. However, Disney has pumped out a lot of art in the last few decades. Maybe Jon just didn't notice because he's too busy resenting anything remotely feminine and aimed at girls. Then again, maybe I'm wrong, maybe Disney has never produced anything of artistic merit.

It's not like Disney ever created something with an epic soundtrack as well as stunning visual effects.

Disney is just so heartless and I can't think of even a single thing that bloody company did that was ever artistic or conveyed emotion in a realistic and moving manor.

Not to mention, I don't remember being taught anything from their movies. They're all so bland and obviously void of any kind of meaning.

You get my point. Though Star Wars is a far cry from some of these animated movies and Disney as a company isn't the perfect or most reputable name to sell your soul to, let's look at some of the facts. At least Jon got it right in saying that Lucas has the right to sell to the mouse. Lucas is getting on in years and he wanted to milk the last of his cash cow. Even though Jon doesn't go mad about Lucas selling out, I can see a little bit of nerd hatred going on and I can certainly see some stabbing comments in the process.

The problem being the fact that Jon would be exactly like this if his story idea was worth jack-shit. In fact, Jon sounds just like Lucas; not wanting to let 'Hollywood types' take control of his film because everything needs to be perfect, but eventually becoming more of a jack off than he is now because of all the power and control going to his head. The only thing is that Morgalla isn't and never will be as popular as Star Wars or Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings. Why? Well you should know by now.

However, the example stands that Jon would go on a tirade if allowed to make a shitty film version of his book. He'd complain and complain, milk it for all it was worth whilst still being ignorant enough not to acknowledge what a tool he was being. Jon isn't an author or even a writer, mainly because writers tend to care a lot about the material they put out there and are constantly writing to review and improve. Jon is writing because he wants to be famous, he wants recognition and money. Granted, all writers want that but they usually have a point behind the things they're trying to write. They want their story to be different, to mean something and teach the reader a lesson.

Jon's book is his own wet fantasy come to life with no morals, lessons or even plot really standing behind it. The novel meanders around it's own point, gets confused as to what it wants to tell you and then just kind of shrugs it's shoulders and drops you off at the end. Thoroughly leaving you confused as to whether you started drinking at some point through the book, since that's usually the only way you end up that lost about what you're reading.

That kind of writer, or dabbler, just wants the money. I can probably tell you what Jon would spend his on. He'd donate a good deal to Mittens, like the good Republican ass wipe he is and then spend the rest of it trying to get laid. No really, I'd like to see him deny it. I'd be surprised if he hadn't already tried. This is Jon's future if he were to ever hit it big.

Happily marrying the supposed 'whores' and 'trailer trash' he so lovingly dubbed in his book. Why? Because Jon's morals aren't really there. They're nothing but hot air he likes to pretend he cares about but if he ever got the chance to throw them off he would.

Either that, or he'd go on one of those pathetic marriage strikes those MRA's like to do, as if it's an actual loss for women not to be able to marry them.

Jon can marry Morgalla, I mean, he's half way there with Jasper.

Or he can marry himself - either way, we women will survive.

Morgalla in pink? There's a first time for everything

I've said it once, I'll say it twice. Morgalla needs to get a wardrobe. The kind of wardrobe that doesn't consist of random Republican slogans and the odd attempt at looking like Jon actually cares about shit.

Now, usually you'd applaud an author for taking active interest in a charity, especially one as big as 'Breast Cancer Research' but the reason I'm not giving Jon his props is because it feels so forced. Jon chose the most typically female charity he could - one with a pink symbol and everything - to try and show his support for women. Note how this is about as feminine as Jon will ever allow Morgalla to look and how the slogan he's chosen is still pretty typical of his muscle bound fantasy women.

Not to mention many feminist groups have issues with the campaign. The symbol was stolen and changed colour when the women who first used it refused to have her symbol used by the charity. The campaign then went and sexualised the disease by making it based around 'save the boobies' and 'save second base' rather than 'save the women attached to the boobs because for fuck sake they're actually the important thing here'.

So Jon, you still haven't won over the feminists yet.

I don't really know why Jon has chosen to support this charity/campaign but he seems to do work for it pretty regularly.

Here's another chance for you to ask me 'But Toxic, surely this time you're just gripping about a man with good-intentions? It's a charity for Christ sake.' I hear you friends, I hear you.

But it's all just too typical. Supporting the biggest female-orientated charity known to the western world, which even has a conveniently  feminine public image. It's too obvious that Jon ran for the first charity that benefited women that he saw, just to say he cared. How much money do you think he actually donates to them? He's never mentioned. He only ever draws.

What's even better about these pictures is that on DA they have links that go to Jon's Amazon and Create space.  Yeah, because it's not like actually fucking linking to the charity or mentioning why you support the charity would make more sense in place of advertising yourself.

PRIORITIES JON, PRIORITIES!

Masters of the Universe; too violent for the man who laughs at Hippy headshots?

Remember these guys?

Hippies

Yeah, they were white people appropriating just about every culture they could get their hands on - and yeah, they were annoyingly doped up and stupidly optimistic about 'peace man', but it would take a really soulless bastard to laugh at a group of them dying.

Cue Jon.

Hippies weren't the most politically correct group in the world, neither were they always the most helpful. Though I suppose at it's core we can hold onto the fact that humanity saw an era of people that just didn't care about the government or the rules - even if it was just a fad.

Jon is a man who admits to laughing at the scene in Watchmen when a group of hippies are shot literally point blanc. Especially a young girl who doesn't look more than 16 years of age.

So Jon can handle and even laugh at the horrific violence against a sub-culture his ridiculously right tendencies caused him to hate, but a decapitated demon head is a step too far?

To use a phrase coined by my friend Ali over the years... PRIORITIES JON, GET SOME!

For Jon to babble on about how he enjoyed Mortal Kombat and drew inspiration from it, only to then counteract with how he cut the violence from his own work is a slight misinterpretation of facts. Jon didn't cut the gore from his book altogether; his writing skills are just that horrible that the gore and violence becomes as bland as everything else.

Jon's fight scenes are a mess of switching viewpoints and sub-par descriptions that leave the reader wondering whether anything interesting is actually going on.

Let's just say he's no J.R.R Tolkien when it comes to battle scenes.

The idea that Jon would purposefully cut any violence or gore from his book is literally an insult to his own genre. Harry Potter was for kids and though it wasn't gory, it took death seriously and it took the kids reading it seriously. Lord of the Rings was plenty violent and just about any popular young adult book will handle violence at some stage. Why? Because violence and conflict is a natural stage in the progression of plot and depth. We see characters grow in battle; their personalities and morals are tested in the most extreme situations.

Jon's characters simply seem to fall flat; revealing either horrendous character faults, like Jasper's ever prominent list of priorities (THA BULLIES GUYZ, I'M SO ANGRY) or Morgalla's complete and utter lack of a relationship with her so called mentor. Not only this, but Jon's chosen creatures are naturally violent and gory. Jon's story would benefit from being more gory because it would stay true to legend. We have this un-realistic bad guy that just does nothing the whole way through. We're told he's a really bad guy but never see anything that makes him stand apart from anyone else. If he say, killed an army of humans mercilessly and had there corpses prepared in a mighty demon feast, maybe then I'd believe he was half as bas ass as Jon made him out to be.

Jon is a kid who has watched one too many simplistic cartoons about good vs evil. I love the emphasis Jon always puts on having a simplistic plot without ever realising that even simplistic plots will have complicated characters and events to make them interesting. The Lord of the Rings was essentially good vs evil, but we at least saw the different alliances, had more than one epic battle and got a story that despite having a plot that could be boiled down to the age old tradition of good guys fighting bad guys, actually kept our attention.

Jon's drive for simplicity is his un-doing. We see one epic battle that isn't even that epic. The characters are dull and un-involved to the point where I don't care if they live or die. The ending is a let down with a villain that doesn't even appear. Okay, Sauron doesn't make a massive appearance in The Lord of the Rings either, but at least the people fighting in those books knew what they were fighting against and the severity of the situation. Jon just has random, not-very-strong creatures come piling out of the ground and then suddenly the towns peoples get all patriotic. It's like stars and stripes should be playing in the background. Too bad Jon can't write motivational speeches either. I think if someone tried to rally me at a battle with one of Jon's speeches, I'd be skipping off to safety in seconds.

Jon tried to do a Morpheus and failed.

A place more like Mordor... lazy writing goes from bad to worse

Jon, what can we say about your work?

It's misogynistic. That's true.

It's bland. Check.

It's lazy? Oh, definitely.

One of the original lines from Jon's un-revised work was 'the stuff of nightmares; it looked exactly the way you'd imagine it to be.'

How lazy is that? He's describing his version of hell and we just get told 'well basically whatever you want it to be really.' That's so boring and un-imaginative.

So now he's just trying to rip off Mordor.

Oh yeah, that's a real writer right there. Blatantly stealing ideas because he has no imagination of his own. Even if his idea was similar he could of explained his version of hell a lot better than he did. Only now do we discover that demons get more powerful with age. Before hand we didn't even know if there was a ranking system, even though some demons were killed by bullets whilst others brushed them off.

Then there's some strange sort of portal system in Jon's hell that's never really explained.

Somewhere between the poorly described version of Hell and the 'wolf-like' demons, my soul gave out and I was left a husk of my former self.

Lazy writing; Jon's goes from bad to worse.

Harley Quinn, too cute for ya puddin'?

Harley. My baby. My sweet little girl that I will defend to my last breath.

I'm a Batman fan-girl and there's not much you can get past me on a good day.

Harleen Quinzel is often seen as nothing more than a dopey blonde airhead who should probably be dead by now - but she's much more than that. Harley Quinn bought humanity to someone where it was a struggle for even the Batman to find good. Essentially, Harley was that reminder that every now and then even the most sane, intelligent person wants to be outrageous.

The reason I have respect for this character is because she's more than what she seems. It's true, at her base Harley could be seen as a fallen woman who is the ultimate annoying fan-girl that gave everything for love. Something that is really looked down on in modern society. However, there's another side to Harley. The tragic story of how an intelligent woman was charmed into an abusive relationship that she can't leave. Harlene was a respected psychologist who was good enough to be accepted into Arkham with some of the most violent criminals in the world. What happened? She fell for the Joker's sob stories.

If anything, Harley Quinn is an ode to a woman's sensitivity and how her caring nature can be abused. Joker warped Harley's mind so much that she thought Batman was being cruel for beating him up and returning him to Arkham. The story is all too common; a successful woman is roped in by a compulsive liar or otherwise bad catch by enticing her with a story of a tragic childhood. Harley wasn't an idiot for falling in love with the Joker, she was a human who thought she could help him.

If anything, Harley is a reminder to us all that anyone can fall in love with the wrong person and it can make us do stupid things. She's not a character to be laughed at and called useless; she's a warning for girls everywhere about what happens when the wrong man gets his claws into you. So no wonder Jon doesn't like her. Harley is a victim of the manipulating characteristics of a man.

Most of all, I think Harley's fun and she brings some innocence back to the underworld of Gotham. I don't think Harley would ever really try and kill anyone with her own hands. She's more of a 'do the cutesy work' or be the entertainment kind of person. Though she is known to be violent at moments. Her wacky personality can slide between being un-realistically happy and then back into what we'd call a 'normal' attitude. In my own analysis, Harley is the everyday person. She is everything we can and could be. All of us have moments were we act stupid or 'blonde'. We all have moments where we laugh at something morbid or inappropriate and then we all have childish moments. Harley is all those things. She is unapologetically happy and won't let anyone spoil it for her, which is rare for women

She grows more confident when she becomes friends with Ivy and it's a short while before she finally learns to break away from the Joker. It's her and Red against the world, a female duo to show the sisterhood in being evil. There's no competition or bickering over men; it's a solid friendship built on the acknowledgement that they understand what it's like to be in an underworld dominated by men, for men. Most of all, their friendship shows Ivy overcoming her hatred of humans to care enough about Harley's abusive relationship. Ivy is the one person Joker can't touch and she's taking Harley with her.

So, if you don't appreciate her perkiness and the general humanity she brings to Gotham's dark side, then go soak your head.

Oh ye of little faith: Is humanity the bane of the Earth?

Jon doesn't think so.

Jon thinks you should fly that American flag loud and proud.

Fuck the thousands of Native's your country killed for something as common as land.

Fuck the fact that the white man has and still does disgusting things to minorities.

No, humanity is a blessed and sacred thing.

We've already discussed Jon's apparent affinity for humanity and relating being human with everything good in this world. Jon goes as far as to hate on the film Avatar because it shows humans in a negative light instead of a positive one. What Jon fails to mention is that the plot to his book is basically the same, except it's the humans being invaded rather than doing the invading.

Jon doesn't seem to think that humans are greedy enough to rob other planets of their materials in the future.

Wakey, wakey Jon. We're stealing resources right now from Native's all over the world.

If we can do it to our fellow humans, why not another species?

Because he's American damn it, and he'll be damned the day he lets a movie accurately represent what his ancestors did to those poor Native's all those years ago.

Yay American patriotism!

Jon's ridiculous optimism when it comes to humans is actually rather pathetic. Why? because he puts so much faith into humans being genuinely good hearted people and then he forgets that people like himself exist.

People who hate other genders for no particular reason.

People who deny the fact that they benefited from the downfall and exclusion of other races.

But most of all, people who just don't know when to admit they're wrong.

Morgalla's not trying to impress anyone... but she is.

Jon thinks that because he puts Morgalla in the same generic outfit every time we see her that means she's simplistic in design, chooses comfort over style and practicality over fashion.

Well, it's true that she certainly doesn't have style... or any kind of fashion sense.

Seriously, who would even look 'down there'? Is he referring to her chest because that is some screwed up anatomy and I can't tell if those are boobs or some sort of ledge that flattens off.

Oh look, Jon's favourite past time of 'pick on books that are actually better than mine even though they're still pretty awful.' Seriously though, it's about time Morgalla got a wardrobe.

You'd never guess she was a mindless puppet used by a conservative perma-virgin to promote outdated Republican viewpoints. Never in a million years.

No really, it's like she's that unfunny, anti-culture guy in your group who never washes and thinks he's so progressive because he wrote 'fuck the man' on his shirt.

Political soap box? What political soap box?

May the God's have mercy on our souls.

(I don't think boobs work like that Jon. Then again, how would you know? The reason you wrote this book is because you've never seen a pair of tits in your life)

She Ra: Oh No! Expressed feminine attributes!

Jon really does hate anything feminine.

I've got to admit, this is another thing I never watched - but I don't need to have watched it to know Jon's main issues with it.

I could have given him some points if he'd said that She-Ra didn't have many lines, she wasn't good in battle or she just stood there and didn't do much. Those are genuine complaints that would have out-lined some kind of caring about leaving a female character as nothing more than a 2D cut out.

But we all know Jon better than to expect him to care about developing female characters.

His main complaint is 'She-Ra was a Barbie doll that rode around on a unicorn and had a side-kick with a heart on his chest.'

Sounds like a legitimate complaint... if Jon actually meant to criticise her non-diverse looks and actually cared about the body image and self esteem issues girls face.

What Jon actually means is that he really has something against a little bit of both. He resents good looking women and he resents the female aspect of She-Ra. He doesn't like the idea of a woman still being powerful if she openly admits to liking unicorns and enjoying the cuter things in life.

I myself have to say a few things about her appearance. She's a typical blonde, slim-figured, big boobed woman. That's typical of the show because look at He-Man. What guy actually looks like that? Sure I'd like to see something different. A black woman. A big woman. A woman with a different body shape. However, just because a woman is conventionally pretty doesn't mean she can't be strong.

Most of all, just because a woman is particularly feminine doesn't mean she can't kick arse. I've mentioned before how both men and women have been lead to think that all things girly are weak and futile. Bitch, I bleed out of my vagina once a month. Kick me in the uterus and I'll laugh at you, cause my body does worse than that to me on a pretty regular basis. If I want to ride into battle on a fucking unicorn then fuck you I hope my unicorn's horn skewers your pathetic ass. Let's all remember this female icon :-

This girl saved the world countless times and even sacrificed her life to do so. What was her power? Love and moon beams. So just because something is inherently feminine doesn't mean it should immediantly be replaced with something masculine just for the sake of making it tough. Maybe there are valid complaints with She-Ra, especially about making her body more realistic. However, the show was aired in 1983 having a few re-incarnations. There were bound to be stereotypes and poorly developed female characters.

However, Jon's complaint doesn't seem to be that she could have a more realistic figure but that she should have a more masculine figure - like Morgalla. This really isn't a step forward for feminism or women in general. Morgalla's figure is as equally extreme as She-Ra's and though Morgalla isn't Barbie, it's interesting to say that she actually takes on more of a He-Man figure. 

So, the idolised female figure She-Ra represents is bad and in Jon's words 'plastic'. Yet, the unrealistic, idolised male figure that He-Man represents is A-Okay and even totally viable for women?

Another example of Jon's hypocrisy. He doesn't understand that idolising one body type as the only body type a woman can have if she wants to be strong is equally as sexist as constantly portraying us as big-breasted and skimpy.

If she ain't full of muscles, she ain't a hero! (Oh the hypocrisy!)

In one of Jon's posts we saw this picture :-

and this beautiful little caption followed it. 'Kick her butt She-Hulk!'

Maybe you're all about to tell me I'm reading too much into this; you're screaming 'Toxic, surely this man can have an opinion' and normally dear follower, you'd be right - but this is Jon, therefore his opinion is always wrong.

Notice how Jon always goes for the muscle bound ladies. He really has something against the slim lined women, or the women who have more of an athletic figure rather than a body building one.

I don't personally know much about She-Hulk but I love Rogue. What I can tell you about She-Hulk is that Jon probably only likes her because she has that muscle figure he really seems to like.

Not to mention Rogue is actually rather feminine despite the fact that she's tough as old boots.

Jon doesn't like that.

Jon thinks that for a woman to be valuable she must abandon all femininity and literally become a man.

To bad Rogue don't give a damn, darlin'.

This is quickly becoming a Rogue appreciation post.

Bite me.

Poison Ivy: the sum of all Jon's nightmares.

The title to this particular blog post really is a swing at the author. He's labelled Poison Ivy a misandrist environmentalist on many occasions. What I love most about this is the continuing debate as to whether misandry exists. I personally don't think it does. A woman can hate a man for having typical male behaviours i.e. being a sexist or telling sexist jokes. However, a woman's hatred for a man will never affect his ability to get a job, to go out when he pleases or ever affect his ability to feel safe in his surroundings. However, misogyny means that women who aren't as pretty are less likely to get that promotion, misogyny means us women better watch what time we feel like going for a jog or whose standing next to us in an elevator.

The best part of this is that Poison Ivy isn't a misandrist; she just doesn't take shit from any of the men in Gotham. Pamela is a real stand on her own villain who came to represent the much under-appreciated female face of crime in the Dark Knight's home city. Without her, the female populace seems a little thin and the other female villains rely too much on men to really set them apart. Catwoman isn't exactly a real baddie, especially considering in an AU she has Bruce's son and/or daughter depending on which AU you go by. Harley Quinn I'll come to later but even she needed the Joker.

Pamela Isley didn't need a man and what I think threatens Jon the most is that she has the power to seduce. Personally, I love this power. Even though I don't think femininity should be criminalised, I love the fact that Ivy is allowed to be as unapologetically clever as she is whilst still being able to just push men around. I mean, why not? Women throw themselves at Batman all the time, and at Nightwing. Why can't it be a woman for once who has the ability to be beautiful and use it to her deadly advantage? Mostly, I think Jon is bitter towards this idea of a women who doesn't have any kind of commitment to men. Pamela isn't a misandrist because she thinks all men are inferior. She thinks humans in general are inferior and that she's better than them.

Here comes the second part of Jon's worst nightmare... she loves the environment. We all know Jon has a deep seated hatred of hippies and the like, so to make a deadly, unmistakably intelligent woman an eco-warrior probably makes Jon shit his pants. He doesn't give Ivy her props because she's a great villain whose fighting for her humanity after literally being turned into a plant; he's just interested in calling her a freak.

If anything, Ivy should have been where Jon learnt his lesson about mixing species. Pamela is turned into a plant mutant who couldn't care less about humanity, despite the fact that she was human. However, the animated series and comics have her form a rare friendship with Harley and we see the woman who couldn't care less about 'flesh-bags' deal with the most annoying human possible, but still manage to regain enough of her own humanity to care about Harley's well-being.

Jon states that 'All men are property. All women are competition; that is the heart of Poison Ivy.' Jon obviously doesn't understand Ivy's character very well. Although her appearance may suggest otherwise, Ivy isn't all about the men. In many incarnations she's not bothered about the men around her, they're just pawns for her to use and so to say that she views all women as 'competition' is incorrect. Mainly because Ivy couldn't give a shit. She's knows there's no competition and most of all she doesn't care about humans in general. This brings me to believe that Jon can't accept that there's a woman that doesn't care about commitment and men without turning her into a snake. He wants to believe that Ivy is all those mean girls that said no to him in the past, and so wants to turn her into a negative stereotype for women as well, effectively trying to convince other females that Ivy is that bitch who used to try to steal your boyfriend.

In reality, Ivy don't give two fucks about you or your boyfriend. She's too busy being a bad ass scientist who wears killer lipstick and enjoys breeding man-eating plants.

So it begins...

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, we're about to delve into a magical place - a truly whimsical place called Jon Land. In Jon Land, the wild misogynistic thoughts run free, unchecked by those pesky misandrists. There are no trees in Jon Land, or grass or greenery (because please, who wants those stupid environmentalists poking their noses in?) and you get all the muscle bound women you want. Basically it's like a screwed up version of Valhalla where Jon gets all the body-building, extra tough Valkyrie's he could ever hope to find. Can someone say 'fetishisation'?

This Blog, believe it or not, will now be dedicated to another blog which can be found here:-http://morgallasblog.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=9

Jon starts us off with an interesting perspective on Morgalla, calling her 'a tongue-in-cheek black comedy reply to anime'.  Tongue-in-cheek I can believe, since the only way to swallow this horrendously ridiculous character is to believe that the author couldn't honestly of thought he was ever going to be taken seriously. Morgalla is Jon's fetish personified. She doesn't have a particular personality or even hold up much of a conversation in her own book. Without doubt, she's nothing but a 2D cut out of what Jon thinks all women should be like. In regards to being a black comedy, no where in the un-revised version of Jon's released work did I find Morgalla to be particularly dark or witty. In fact, she's nothing more than a throw away soap box of see through, out-dated republican values that don't even try to be subtle. Morgalla is literally a walking conservative doll, a woman with a man's voice behind her and little else to connect her with her own gender.

Now, I never watched 'DragonSlayer' as a child, or even as an early teen, and I'm not about to go on the recommendations of a certain pending author. However, what I can get from Jon's first description of his inspirations for Morgalla is that he thinks he's managed to create a relatable character who struggles with her identity whilst still remaining strong. Morgalla is made strong in one sense and one sense only. She has muscles and she can fight. Though Jon's terrible writing has a knack for making epic battle scenes absolutely suck so most of the time you don't even care that Morgalla can apparently kick butt.

Jon likes to pretend that Morgalla has strength beyond the rippingly pecks that he gave her, and unfortunately, she just doesn't. Morgalla has no strength in character or personality because she's barely a character. She doesn't express any emotions that are remotely human and when she does, Jon writes it in a way that makes it sound robotic and un-natural. Morgalla comes across as an empty shell, a character who was supposed to be as lonely as Harry Potter in his cupboard and have deep emotional issues with her hellish surroundings.

It's kind of like Jon forgot altogether that he made his character a demon. When you make a hybrid character, especially if the character is half-human, you have to understand how the dynamics of the two separate races work. It's always nice to think of our human side as being the triumphantly good aspect of someone's personality. Who didn't cheer in Lord of the Rings when Aragorn took up the throne of Gondor and the age of man prevailed? Who didn't feel slightly proud when Faramir realised the ring was too powerful for man and fought his corruption? Everyone wants to believe that man = good. That's not hard to recognise with Jon since he has an aversion to films that present humanity negatively. However, making a half human, half demon high breed calls for caution.

Considering Morgalla has been raised in hell and apparently doesn't have much experience with humans, it would only be right to assume that she should be bloody thirsty. No, I don't care that her mother was human. No, I don't care that she's always had more of an inclination towards good than all the other demons in hell. She was raised with other demons, other demons who were merciless and hungry for war. Morgalla should have at least taken on some of their views in her youth. Jon makes the mistake of making Morgalla a special snowflake who for some reason is immune to the rough ideology of her whole society just because she has a few strands of human in her somewhere. He forsakes character development in order to preach about Morgalla feeling more human, even though logic tells us she should be just as bloodthirsty as any other demon.

Morgalla's transition into human emotions should have been a slow and vigorous process that required multiple contact with different humans and probably even life changing experiences. Instead, the story cops out and Morgalla already feels 'different' and 'special' at the start of the book. She'd be a much more interesting character if only the author knew how to write her...