Women of Marvel, featuring TITS

[stubbleupdate]

I commented on NSD earlier about Marvel's Year of Women. Part of that includes the two part Women of Marvel series, collecting stories previously published on Marvel.com

The cover's got its stars in burlesque gear and inside... it's got tits.




Uhhh... a pinup? By Greg Land? Why not just pay the strippers to wear the costumes themselves?

And then Black Cat's tits fight the tits of Satan's Daughter.




I'll probably give this one a miss.

Though I will say that the Enchantress does do rather well out of these Marvel women stories. I've not seen her in continuity much, but this year, she's been dotted around in lots of different places.

Comments

[perletwo]

.....Is it wrong that I kinda want a sexualized-men equivalent to this now? or that I'd probably buy it?

[valtyr]

You might enjoy this.

[perletwo]

That's in the ballpark, yes. But I was thinking more along the lines of, say, "Luke, Tony, Steve and Clint must go undercover as Chippendale's Dancers!" and shake what Mama gave 'em for an entire issue, for some plausible reason.

[liara_shadowsong]

I would buy that. I would probably buy multiple copies of that, and distribute the duplicates to my friends (or just keep them all for myself...). ^___^

[bradhanon]

It's not quite equivalent, but I do edit this magazine...

[whitesycamore]

That magazine looks like it's falling into the same trap almost all erotica aimed at women does - the photos are all so sappy and soft it ends up completely desexualised. Where's the spark, the edge? It's like "non-threatening boys" marketed to adult women.

The people behind that magazine really need to spend more time researching women's self-made erotica/fan-art, etc, to get the aesthetic down.

[bradhanon]

Criticism noted. As a matter of fact, the woman who took those photos has been involved in women's erotica for fifteen years via slash fandom, but I do agree that we could use a bit more "edge", as you put it, in the second issue. We work from the stories that our (female) authors write, and I've been asking for more explicit scenes of nudity for us to shoot for issue two. I apologize if this sounds too defensive; just trying to honestly acknowledge and engage with your legitimate critique. :)

[whitesycamore]

It does bother me how all "tasteful" nudity needs to be photographed in black and white for some reason (and also how all nudity aimed at women must be tasteful in the first place).

And those particular photos just aren't very good, to be blunt. They're stiff and posed looking, and the facial expressions are obviously fake. I think you'd be better off getting a good artist to illustrate the stories.