Some Frank Cho sketch covers

[cyberghostface]

NSFW for General cheesecakiness 

Comments

[alicemacher]

Oh, Frank, you naughty boy.

I still hope he'll get back to Liberty Meadows someday, if only to finish the Frank/Brandy/Roger storyline. But I can't say I blame him for focusing on cover art and such; it pays much better.

[rainspirit]

Why is Gwen being ultra-puritan in these scans? >_>

[lyricalswagger]

Cho is trolling because he got criticized once.

[cyberghostface]

Also Robbi Rodriguez not-so-subtly threatened to beat up Frank Cho over it, saying that Gwen was like his daughter.

A rather unsubtle reference

[chortles81]

To the infamous Milo Manara cover for Spider-Woman (hence the imitations) and the time Frank Cho's reaction was to do one with Spider-Gwen in the pose, hence the bit about "until the Internet explodes" from the Joker. (Irony: Harley's pose is just different enough to look physically possible!)

Re: A rather unsubtle reference

[mrstatham]

The Harley cover is exactly the same? The only thing different is the angle of her head.

Nah

[chortles81]

I remember quite a bit more noticeable-seeming spinal curve in the original Manara cover versus what Cho's done here.

[cyberghostface]

There was a bit of wank from the Spider-Gwen cover so this was his way of poking fun.

[lyricalswagger]

I think you accidentally misspelled "valid criticism" as "a bit of wank."

It's an easy mistake, the letters are right next to each other on the keyboard.

[cyberghostface]

Nope, I'm pretty good with spelling. :)

[sagrada]

That isn't bring Puritan. Puritan would be locking them in their room and starving them into compliance, or destroying those costumes and making them wear something less conspicuous.

Gwen is just being right-wing and saying words.

[mrstatham]

Yeah, some of these are just parody - albeit hacky parody, because god forbid people should speak out about imagery they find distasteful, right? But ones like the She-Hulk one and the Power Girl ones are just tacky. I note that Cho deliberately goes after the people complaining about how female characters are depicted, but isn't bold enough to say, mock the people who got aggravated about that recent Batgirl cover, for instance.

[cyberghostface]

Maybe he just has different views on the latter than the former.

Could be that the latter is harder for him to mock

[chortles81]

At least in a way that wouldn't get him in trouble with DC, plus cheesecake is far more central to what people think of Cho's work than violence against women.

[lilacsigil]

I dunno, the icecream down the boobs thing has happened to me...

[icon_uk]

A little too close to the artist outright trolling methinks, which is a shame as I do like some of his work.

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, Cho's a very good artist (even if he does have a very specific.... area of interest) but his reaction to being criticized was utterly classless. That and the fact that he seemingly won't let the matter drop has soured me on his work considerably, to the point where I wish someone else were relaunching Hulk with Greg Pak.

[trooper924]

Really, what else is there to say? Cho is wasting his time and talents whining about something that everyone else has mostly forgotten about.

Except to mention that there are people out there applauding him for this, saying that he's being "bold" for standing up to "censorship". Even though no ones trying to censor Frank Cho, but I digress.

[lyricalswagger]

He keeps reminding me that he acts like a spoiled child when criticized, which makes me think I shouldn't buy his paid work -- what if I don't like it, and post about it somewhere, and he flips out again?

I don't see what he's trying to accomplish except make himself a hero to the G*merG*te style of angry anti-feminist fans, which seems a poor choice given that they undoubtedly will be quite unhappy with the "Political correctness gone mad!!1!" Hulk, who is not a white man.

Well, I can see Frank Cho doesn't have anything worth looking at.

[7dialsmystery]

So I won't waste any money on his work.

[steverodgers5]

Well, I admit it, If nothing else some of these did make me laugh. Too fluffy to get up in arms about...which I guess was his intent.

But as other folks have noted, he seems to have missed the window when this was a thing. The internet's kind of moved on to be upset about a whole lot of other things since. So maybe a bit pointless now I suppose.
(But thanks for the laugh in posting them!)