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

[rainspirit]

I don't care about statistics in a comic book; I care about interesting relations between characters, no matter how seemingly improbable. It's not like they're an all gay marching band/chorus - it's three people, one of them being an extraterrestrial!

It just seems like a waste of potential to me.

[zaqari_waliz]

What if 100% of all superheroes were straight white males? I don't think you don't care about statistics.

[rainspirit]

Well hello, comment thread from four months ago.

I really, really don't care about statistics and I'm not sure where you're going with that argument. Anyway, I've pretty much moved on from Roy, Jason and Starfire; they're boring characters in a comic book series I'll never read!

[zaqari_waliz]

Yeah come to think of it, I'd actually have to google it to see if this was even still being written... Sorry for assuming, I feel like it's kind of a rare person who legitimately doesn't care about the statistics a team's membership fall under and is purely in it for how interesting the interactions of those characters are regardless of how adequately they represent one group or another.

[rainspirit]

Don't get me wrong; I like diversity a lot, but the idea of measuring and charting what demographic ends up where is a super turn-off for me. I like unconventional relationships, and I like it when superheroes are a bit more honest about their inherent kinkyness! I don't need a world where LGBT is meted out in carefully equal proportions.

[icon_uk]

You mean like "Pretty much the entire comic book industry output for the past 75+years"?

[zaqari_waliz]

Yup.