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

[cleome45]

I think you may be right, actually. They see Mike Grell's Warlord, or whatever, and say See? Lookit all that bare skin, Ladies! They don't/won't get that it's not just about bare skin, but about the character's personality (or lack of same) as well.

Not to mention that characters like Warlord are still comparably rare, and limited to specific genres (or a certain milieu, if one's feeling pretentious). Mike Grell didn't dress Jon Sable for work the way he dressed Warlord. But for most female characters in comics exposed skin is the rule, not the exception. The personality and background doesn't suggest the look. The look comes first, and usually has zero to do, logically, with the personality and background of the woman character in question.