Ame-Comi Supergirl #1

[superfangirl1]

Comments

[silverhammerman]

I'm confused by the these Ame-Comi digital comics. I thought they were supposed to be targeted towards women and girls, but then they go and use the incredibly fetishistic designs from the anime statues. It's so confusing.
I mean, did I misread a press release or something when these were first announced? Are these actually supposed to appeal to female audiences?

[q99]

Well, they do have female protagonists, who are in somewhat short supply in DC and generally attract at least some female readers, but yea.

[shadowpsykie]

hmm this costume is still better than power girl's current costume.... wow...

i tend to ignore these costumes anyway... the stories have actually been really good.

[green_hellfish_of_doom]

also copious amounts of the fanservice camera.

[violetclm.livejournal.com]

Giant shiny tits everywhere!!!

Why does Power Girl have a belly-button window now too?

[robinzegblu]

It looks more like an "upper-crotch window" to me.

[celestialchild]

The both look like they have sun/baby oil all over their skins.

[eyz]

At least it's a somewhat more recognizable Power Girl!

*will wait for a tpb*

[arise]

They look shiny, almost laminated...

[mrstatham]

I don't know how we went from a set of great artists in Conner and Naifeh on Wonder Woman, Batgirl and Duela Dent to this. Both the Supergirl and Power Girl art has been really lacklustre.

[lucky_gamble]

They are literally painful to watch. From PG's crotch window to Supergirls....whatevernthatncostume, how the hell is this suppose to appeal to female readers?

[thosefew]

2nd page, 1st panel:

Power Girl: ...Eesh, even I think that costume is ridiculous.

[mrstatham]

I don't know how they had the relatively well-designed Batgirl ones - Harley, Ivy, Duela, Barbara and Carrie's in particular, but especially the steampunk-esque Duela - put into the same universe as these, really.

[robinzegblu]

Supergirl doesn't look all that different from the old Michael Turner design.

[mullon]

Wasn't this the plot of Earth X?

[ap0cryphal]

i'm sure this has been said already, but:

TITS! TITS EVERYWHERE! TITS BIGGER THAN THEIR HEADS! CROTCH SHOTS! ASS SHOTS! MICROMININANOSKIRTS! FAP AWAY, NERDS! FAP AWAAAAY!

Good writing can make bad art tolerable, but there's nothing that makes hypersexualised, fetishistic art tolerable. What fucking garbage is this.

[junipepper]

Thank you. That's pretty much word for word what I got from it, too. And it's supposed to appeal to women? From what planet?

[thanekos]

I can't help but think the gynoid Manhunters (..ooh.) up there really, really don't need the swishy energy-plumes.

[nezchan]

The art looks like someone modelled their "manga style" after Urushihara Satoshi, purveyor of gratuitious shiny boobs, but simplified to early 90's anime level.

Heck, Power Girl here even looks a teensy bit like the female mode of Carol from Chirality.

[celestialchild]

Are there even any women behind this title at ALL?

That aside, Earth's core being a Brainiac computer is a new one for me.

[nyadnar17]

I look at the costumes and think tits, tits, tits, navel? But I also think "manga" and from what I understand manga has a large female following soy maybe this will work?

[janegray]

Nope. I'm a big fan of manga, but I look at this "art" and think "atrocious". It's shitty imitation of manga art. If this comic is meant to appeal to manga fans, it looks to me like it's failing spectacularly.

Here, check out this manga art.

Magic Knight Rayearth:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8rzw9QPaj6o/TzfWWvvt3wI/AAAAAAAABSg/fYpotaK-YB4/s1600/Magic%252BKnight%252BRayEarth%252B%252Bbanner.jpg
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/magic-knight-rayearth?before=1344274978

Fullmetal Alchemist:
http://www.wallmay.net/thumbnails/detail/20120318/fullmetal%20alchemist%20edward%20elric%20winry%20rockbell%20scar%20fma%20ling%20yao%20lan%20fan%201657x1200%20wallpaper_www.wallmay.com_33.jpg
http://vesperis.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/olivier.jpg

Emma - A Victorian Romance:
http://meido.cardboardshrine.com/gallery/get.php/27%20-%20emma%20glasses%20mori_kaoru%20music%20victorian_romance_emma.jpg
http://m2.paperblog.com/i/52/520701/emma-di-kaoru-mori-L--EJbcD.jpeg

Ushio & Tora:
http://animereq.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Ushio-and-Tora-post.jpg?84cd58
http://i32.mangareader.net/ushio-and-tora/35/ushio-and-tora-1019937.jpg

Slam Dunk:
http://citymanga.com/files/images/slam_dunk/260/02.jpg
http://www.aulamanga.it/slamdunk/wallpaper/1024/wp9.jpg

Soul Eater:
http://i7.mangareader.net/soul-eater/1/soul-eater-1853385.jpg
http://www.anymanga.com/manga/soul-eater/005/001/048-049.png

One Piece:
http://cdn.blogosfere.it/nuvoleparlanti/images/onepiece2.jpg
http://www.wikinoticia.com/images/blogspot.tCxw/4.bp.blogspot.com._x-BH82GSGyo.TPaVkhsfB9I.AAAAAAAAN54.56NdHDT7-Tw.s640.one-piece-manga.jpg

You may have noticed that a lot of manga art does unspeakable things to anatomy and perspective. So, why do manga fans like it?

Because (assuming the mangaka is a decent artist, of course. Japan has its fair share of terrible artists, like any other country) it has style. It has character, personality, quirks. Look again at all the manga pictures I linked to: half a dozen different manga that I thought of off the top of my head, and their art looks nothing alike, you could never for example confuse Emma with Soul Eater. Manga art, ignoring normal standards of drawing, grants an extraordinary freedom of expression.

The Supergirl comic above. It's bland-covered bland with bland filling. It obviously looks like the artist was trying to imitate manga art, instead of creating his own, thus completely missing the point of manga.

[green_hellfish_of_doom]

It's a sad day when I think Shadow Lady from Katsura is better dressed than these people... AND SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FANSERVICE.