Thanks for linking me to that blog! I went over, intending only to scan the front page, but got thoroughly distracted by all the cool articles.

I do see some of those cycles in female characters too. Take Vicki Vale. Bakc in the original Batman series, she was an independent reporter more interested in getting scoops than a date with Bruce Wayne. In Frank Miller's hands, she became a vacuous gossip columnist who strolls around her glass-walled apartment in the middle of the city in lacy pink lingerie and high heels. *facepalms*