Good fucking grief
May. 22nd, 2007 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiMarvel isn't content with MJ doing her man's laundry in her thong.
Check this one out (ganked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asim, who pointed to this post):
Yep, that's three heroines (or anti-heroines, as it were) complete with breasts (all on a scale that would likely make Power Girl cry out in pain from just looking at them) hanging out and with uniforms exposed right down to the crotch.
And yes, there are slimy tentacles dripping onto them. Including lots of slime on Felicia Hardy's cleavage, looking very much like a pearl necklace money shot. Marvel has discovered Hentai. Lovely.
As a bonus feature, Misty Knight (the woman in the red halter top with balloons attached to her) has apparently undergone racial reassignment surgery, presumably either because artist Sana Takeda doesn't like black women in his fantasy porn, or because Marvel has decided that tan-looking vaguely asian/white combos sell better. Only her hair looks anything like the character.
Bonus #2: Note that this is rated T+. That sounds great, right? After all, older teens are ready for tentacle porn and other adult content. But "T+," according to Marvel's pages, means that its appropriate for most readers, starting at age 9.
*blink*
Guess we should set up the DVD system for Urotsukidoji. At 12, Elayna's probably a little old for it, but I suppose it's time to catch up.
Seriously, why even fucking bother with a rating system when you just shit on it?
There's actually good stuff at Marvel: Peter David's (soon-to-end) run on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Warren Ellis's take on Thunderbolts, etc. There's a wonderful history there, as well. But at this point, it's pretty much evolved into the company that makes me glad I dumped their stock last year, with too little good stuff to outweigh the suck.
ETA:digriz notes that the artist appears to be female, which makes her confusion about breasts and gravity even more baffling.
Check this one out (ganked from
asim, who pointed to this post):Yep, that's three heroines (or anti-heroines, as it were) complete with breasts (all on a scale that would likely make Power Girl cry out in pain from just looking at them) hanging out and with uniforms exposed right down to the crotch.
And yes, there are slimy tentacles dripping onto them. Including lots of slime on Felicia Hardy's cleavage, looking very much like a pearl necklace money shot. Marvel has discovered Hentai. Lovely.
As a bonus feature, Misty Knight (the woman in the red halter top with balloons attached to her) has apparently undergone racial reassignment surgery, presumably either because artist Sana Takeda doesn't like black women in his fantasy porn, or because Marvel has decided that tan-looking vaguely asian/white combos sell better. Only her hair looks anything like the character.
Bonus #2: Note that this is rated T+. That sounds great, right? After all, older teens are ready for tentacle porn and other adult content. But "T+," according to Marvel's pages, means that its appropriate for most readers, starting at age 9.
*blink*
Guess we should set up the DVD system for Urotsukidoji. At 12, Elayna's probably a little old for it, but I suppose it's time to catch up.
Seriously, why even fucking bother with a rating system when you just shit on it?
There's actually good stuff at Marvel: Peter David's (soon-to-end) run on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Warren Ellis's take on Thunderbolts, etc. There's a wonderful history there, as well. But at this point, it's pretty much evolved into the company that makes me glad I dumped their stock last year, with too little good stuff to outweigh the suck.
ETA:
digriz notes that the artist appears to be female, which makes her confusion about breasts and gravity even more baffling.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-05-22 05:15 pm (UTC)Lee.
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Date: 2007-05-22 05:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-05-23 12:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 05:30 pm (UTC)And the fact that they just assume, without a second thought, that this was acceptable demonstrates that our culture is still free-falling down through the misogynistic rabbit hole.
Grumble.
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Date: 2007-05-22 08:59 pm (UTC)Our culture? That would imply a significant portion of the population actually were readers of comics, rather than the slowly dwindling niche market it is.
Lets' call this what it is... a desperate, scrabbling attempt at marketshare in the only way they know how by a disappearing medium.
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Date: 2007-05-26 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 05:32 pm (UTC)And what in hell is going on with the bell on Black Cat's neck?? That's a wonderful tool for a thief!
(Black Cat sneakily opens window to Kingpin's penthouse in the middle of the night and slithers in)
DING-A-LING-A-DING-A-LING
BLACK CAT: "Son of a BITCH! I can't believe that happened AGAIN! Why do I keep wearing this thing??"
KINGPIN: "Beats me." (shoots her)
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Date: 2007-05-23 12:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 05:40 pm (UTC)Are those Black Widow's boobs I see on the far right? I can't tell. Just boobs and a bit of hair doesn't tell me anything...
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Date: 2007-05-22 05:41 pm (UTC)Interview from Newsarama (http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Drain/STakeda.html)
Her art website (http://www.sanatakeda.or.tv/)
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Date: 2007-05-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-23 12:28 pm (UTC)Or maybe she fancies women, especially those with "HUGE ...tracts o' land."
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Date: 2007-05-26 06:07 pm (UTC)O_O
Whoa... you're not too familiar with Japanese animation and comics...
If anything, the Japanese comic market is MUCH MUCH more obsessed with enormously endowed women. Even comparatively harmless titles always have some double-D character to bounce and jiggle all over the page/screen for comedic or titilating effect.
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Date: 2007-05-30 05:08 pm (UTC)What I was pondering is the "why" of it -- for a culture that is genetically predisposed to smallish chests, why are they so obsessed with large breasts? I'm not saying the "pandering to the west" is the only theory, or even anywhere near correct, it was just a thought. Could be other things, or a combination of things: Is it wanting what they don't have? Is it a caricature of westerners ("You Europeans and misplaced Europeans, with your big breasts, and your fair skin, and your blonde hair, and your round eyes!") that just became so ingrained in the genre that it's become commonplace?
Hey, I don't know. Armchair sociology isn't an exact science. :)
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Date: 2007-05-30 08:37 pm (UTC)1) Historically, grotesquely exaggerated sexual characteristics were very, very commonplace in Japanese art. Nearly all the pornographic images from Japan's history (when the country had pretty much isolated itself from the rest of the "uncivilized" world) had laughably distorted physical characteristics of the figures.
2) Similarly, Japan actually has a history of sexual humiliation and denigration against women in their literature and art. This can be thought of as lending to...
3) Intensely sexist cultural history. This would take a hella long time to dig through for evidence, but I have it on the authority of several friends how difficult it is for an American woman to live with the sexist nature of that nation while living there.
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Date: 2007-05-31 02:38 pm (UTC)I can completely see that - this is the same culture that created the Geisha.
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Date: 2007-05-26 07:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 05:43 pm (UTC)Who the hell screens the covers at Marvel these days?
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Date: 2007-05-22 05:49 pm (UTC)She said, coming late to the party.
Date: 2007-06-09 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 05:46 pm (UTC)I've been out of comics for a while, and my knowledge of Anime/manga is strictly secondhand, but this cover is really blurring the artistic/stylistic lines between them -- if I didn't see "Marvel.com" on the bottom, I wouldn't have known it wasn't Hentai!
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Date: 2007-05-22 06:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-05-23 12:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 06:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-23 12:39 pm (UTC)And those last three words are, sadly, what Marvel's giving folks with this cover (at least in the case of Black Cat).
ach Capt'n, she cannae take it!
Date: 2007-05-22 07:41 pm (UTC)I mean, I can understand that the kids are all about the manga-esc drawing styles, but seriously, if I wanted manga, I'd buy manga, not some badly ripped off garbage
what's worse? the breasts aren't large enough to constitute 'Hentai'.. too small O.o
Re: ach Capt'n, she cannae take it!
Date: 2007-05-23 12:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 09:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-23 12:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-22 11:57 pm (UTC)Not that anyone would know that given the covers they get (and they've had a few that were pretty bad). But this is the worst I've seen them do. I caught this yesterday on
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Date: 2007-05-23 12:37 pm (UTC)See, if covers like this are actually undercutting good stories, that's just sad.
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Date: 2007-05-23 12:15 am (UTC)No, wait . . . . I mean I heard . . . I mean it could be . . . ummmm . . . . third base.
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Date: 2007-05-23 12:35 pm (UTC)(corrected for grammar)
Date: 2007-05-23 12:30 pm (UTC)Re: (corrected for grammar)
Date: 2007-05-23 12:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-23 10:34 pm (UTC)Beyond that, I am, indeed, speechless.
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Date: 2007-05-25 04:13 pm (UTC)http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3552129.html
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Date: 2007-06-09 02:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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