Oh, Marvel. I Knew You When.....

A quick note. I wanted to check something in this article last night and realised...lots of text is missing. This is the third time this week blogger has done this.  The whole point is that Disney has killed off Marvel Comics BUT with these covers, its proven that comic creativity in the US at least has stumbled to a halt.  Why not just get these artists to make a good, new comic book?

Yes, folks. Marvel Disney Comics finally found the hammer to put in those last nails. Now the coffin of creativity has been sealed up and cremated.

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RIP MARVEL COMICS

Comic Book Superheroes Get the Pin-Up Girl Treatment

Sarah Cascone, Friday, September 5, 2014
http://news.artnet.com/art-world/comic-book-superheroes-get-the-pin-up-girl-treatment-2-93960 

What would it look like if comic book superheroes were portrayed in the same hyper-sexualized manner as their female counterparts? A new project by Brett White of Comic Book Resources looks to answer that question in response to the unpopular, super-sexy cover art for Spider-Woman #1.

Marvel Comics, which has recently been praised for its introduction of a number of prominent female, gay, and minority characters (see the popular Tickld listicle “The Difference Between DC and Marvel. This Is Priceless“) made a perhaps-inevitable misstep last month when an alternate cover for the first issue of the new Spider-Woman comic book series featured the title character, Jessica Drew, scaling a building in an impossibly skin-tight outfit and ridiculously oversexed pose that left little to the imagination (and is actually an anatomical impossibility, as reported by the Telegraph).

The cover, which has received considerable online backlash, is the work of Italian comic book artist Milo Manera, who specializes in erotic artwork. Many consider Manera’s selection an odd choice for a series that hopes to draw female readers.

“She looks like she’s wearing body-paint, and that’s a big no-no for an industry still trying to remember that women exist and may perhaps read comics and also don’t want to feel completely gross when they do so,” wrote io9.

White’s mock-up covers, on the other hand, re-purpose drawings from the Marvel Swimsuit Specials of the 1990s. Though the poses don’t quite match the pornographic overtones of Drew’s (legs akimbo, butt unrealistically thrust in the air as she crawls atop a building), they are showing quite a bit more skin than we’re used to from our male superheroes, and they would definitely feel out of place at the local comic book shop.

“What if Marvel released sexy variant covers for every comic they released? Why couldn’t Magneto #1 feature the master of magnetism in a brokeback pose with a come hither look?” asks White. “Sexiness isn’t inherently a bad thing…it just needs to be an equal thing.”

Despite the relaunch of the Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, and Ms. Marvel (as a Muslim, no less) characters, as well as the introduction of a new female Thor, the double standard for woman in comic books (Spider-Man boners aside) is still very real.

The hypocrisy of people in comics astounds me. "bad anatomy" on the Spider Woman cover? Offensive cover no less.  NO ONE wants that in comics -which is why orders for that issue have gone up no doubt. Women comic readers are up in arms?  Really? Are these the female cosplay comic fans with their skin-tight revealing outfits?  The female cosplayers who...well, we've been into this so many times already. Basically, comic newbies who blog and want a bit of attention.

Hey, lets "equal-up" the sexualisation!  What they mean is that someone chewing on a long, firm, most cuban cigar after rolling it several minutes between their fingers said: "Hey -are we gettin' the fag dollar? Shh-yit! Those dollars should be ours!"  Hey, yes, that was satirically incorrect for the purpose of showing how the money boys think. But somewhere at Disney....someone is seeing these covers and thinking "ohhhh. Oh yeah, baby. We gotta!"

Here, look at these -more covers at the original source!