The June Preview cover for "Red Hood and the Outlaws" and a riposte

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Yesterday, DC released their solicitations and covers for June and one of them, well, it's caused a bit of a stir...






And this isn't even the "Bombshell" variant cover theme that DC are doing that month (So far all the examples we've seen of that are based on the 1940's "Good girl"-style Bombshell statues that DC Direct sell... and I, for one, want to see a few male beefcake variations thrown in... though of course, it's a wretched shame that the Nightwing title has been cancelled by the time this theme rolls around)

As dcwomenkickass put it

• Ed Benes on cover art? CHECK!
• Starfire with her teeniest top? CHECK!
• Starfire front and center leaning on a car in a “sexy” pose? CHECK!
• Starfire appearing to “hot” in the tropic sun while her male partners are fully clothed? CHECK!

Have to say that the guys being fully dressed did strike me as a trifle incongruous.

Seraphtonin asked and answered the standard defence that "um starfire’s powers are fueled by the sun that’s why she has to wear skimpy clothes"

with

"hey u know who else’s powers are fueled by the sun? superman. come on clark time for that toothfloss speedo chop chop"

Someone else suggested that

"His nipples are covered by tiny capes"

and in a remarkably short period of time, even by internet standards came this delight from sheva-ku! :)




I don't care how they have to do it, I want to see this used in a comic!!
 

Comments

[mortimerwclankitybritches]

havent you heard? no female or LGBT folk reads comics (they too busy playing with dolls or shit) so who on earth would want to look at ANYTHING but this hawt babe (whatever her name is...raven i think) and her big tits?

bitter sarcasm aside I actually think you have a good idea there. if they want to turn this comic into ersatz porn then they may as well go whole hog share the fetishisation and objectification equally among the characters regardless of gender. at least then they could offer up a piddling excuse whenever someone criticises them for being sexist.

[firstmoonie]

Yep. If we've been getting the same amount of fanservice for Jason and Roy, at least we would say "yeah but this comic is a bit of sexual to begin with". But they do this to only Starfire and it annoys me.

It's a shame that mentality still exist in 2014.