What If The Male Avengers Posed Like The Female One?

[brooms]

Art by Kevin Bolk, source is Bleeding Cool.





I think this is the first time we see Scott and Alex interacting since Alex came back.

Pencils by KHOI PHAM.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

Hulk spreading the cheeks like that...GOD so disturbing...

[sherkahn]

Dang, I was just about to post about this.

Blue steel, indeed.

[perletwo]

I have absolutely no problem with that fanart, either in concept or execution. :P If I have a quibble it's that for fairness' sake, Widow should have a full-frontal pose for a change like the guys usually get, while they shake their moneymakers....

Is that Rogue that Cyke is looking at in the 'still on the fence' panel?

[shadowpsykie]

Disturbingly sexy! :D

[brooms]

Is that Rogue that Cyke is looking at in the 'still on the fence' panel?

It is -

http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=3826&page=4

[perletwo]

Ah, thanks for the link! I haven't been following this stuff except for what's posted here.

But poor Rogue! This must be like losing her second family, all over again, no matter what she chooses.

[brooms]

Tbh, I don't actually know why she's having trouble deciding. Scott's been a dick to her - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lveT2WX0YfI/TqjLImYIr8I/AAAAAAAAEjE/ZEcHzvzU02M/s1600/Cyclops-Rogue.jpg - and she's more of a connection with Wolverine (historically) anyway.

[shadowpsykie]

I love that the two sexiest poses are by Cap and Iron man :D

[auggie18]

Heh, I did something like this for DC not too long ago.

http://magickmaker.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d42tkdc

[auggie18]

Also, why are Alex's hands constantly glowing?

[shadowpsykie]

from the cover art, didn't rogue choose both sides?

[shadowpsykie]

i also like that Scott isn't looking at it as a break, but as one group focusing on different fronts. They aren't enemies, but believe they should be focusing on different things.

[brooms]

We know she picked Gold Team because Schism is over for every book but this one. She's listed as a teacher for the JGS in WatXM.

[shadowpsykie]

oh, hmm i thought she was on the cover for gold and blue... i thought wrong...what is your icon?

[donnblake]

Given the bow and all, ass shots make a certain amount of sense for Hawkeye.

[whitesycamore]

I've often wondered what this sort of role reversal would look like if it was drawn by someone who was actually good at drawing sexy men.

...But I've never seen that.

[valtyr]

Like this.

[eyz]

NUFF SAID!


Bwahahahaha! This will teach ya, nerds!

[moetushie]

Very nice!

[icon_uk]

When I make my fortune (and then some), Mr Perez will, I'm sure, be happy to oblige me with just such a commission! :)

[whitesycamore]

Interesting! Culturally speaking, it still doesn't really work because our ideas of "sexy" for men and women just aren't equivalent, but at least your example shows an *inkling* of what it might look like if male heroes were drawn for sex appeal first and foremost - I mean, at least it looks like somewhat like something someone might conceivably find sexy, rather than a grotesque joke like most of the role reversal pics do.

The ones that I feel miss the mark widest are the ones which try to draw male bodies in female postures, but inadvertently end up drawing the same old female bodies in female postures, just with a few male characteristics grafted on.

Actually, the pic in this post is a good example - those are not like any male asses I've ever seen. They are just... just too big and round-y. But I guess it proves something about our discomfort with sexualised men, if the guy trying to make that very point is unable to actually draw a sexualised *male* ass?

[whitesycamore]

And I will be happy to view it!

You are a good obliging sort of fellow when it comes to things like this. ;)

[valtyr]

Well, Tony's pose there is a copy of a Spider-Woman pose from a specific pin-up, so presumably it is what an artist found to be a sexy pose for a woman - and I certainly find it a sexy pose for a man.

The main difference is the musculature, and Tony's hips aren't as curvy.

[whitesycamore]

When I said "it looks somewhat like something someone might conceivably find sexy", I meant specifically that it looks like something that could be sexy even to someone *male-attracted.* I mean, most of the poses in typical role-reversal pics are taken from actual pictures of heroines, it's just that some 'female' poses really don't work well on men without some serious tweaking

I don't find the pic you posted sexy myself even though I do like some traditionally 'feminine' poses on men, but I can understand why you do.

[valtyr]

I... don't follow what you mean by male-attracted? Attracted to males? It's a well-done picture of an attractive man in a sexualised pose, so presumably a decent percentage of people attracted to men would find it sexy?