Sex And Your Comic Book:Part1 The Female Figure

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I started notic­ing the female fig­ure at the very young age of sixteen…and I’m sure that there are some of you who may have noticed it a bit ear­lier than that.

I have come to appre­ci­ate the female fig­ure for it’s beauty and sen­su­al­ity, it’s lines and curves and aesthetics.

Over the past few years, I have seen this same female fig­ure rep­re­sented by the the female char­ac­ters and the super­heroines in our comic books slowly change…the female physique has changed from the descrip­tion above to at times the things you can find in any male sex ori­ented magazine.

And my thought here is..is this a good or a bad thing, and just how do we as Amer­i­cans feel about all of this.

Think about this for a minute…When you go into your local comics shop and peruse some of the lat­est titles, just how many of these comics catch your eye due to a provoca­tive, scant­ily clad female fig­ure on it’s cover?

Now, listen…don’t get me wrong here, I’m not say­ing that I do not stop and take a good hard look at some of these covers…but do they influ­ence you into buy­ing a comic that you might nor­mally not even be inter­ested in pick­ing up?

I think the answer here is..quite pos­si­bly yes, it can.

DC Comic’s Pow­er­girl issue#7

Take a look at the com­ing issue of Pow­er­girl issue#7…this cover is prob­a­bly on the tame side, but here is a girl with a set of breasts that you could more than likely find in one of those afore­men­tioned adult mag­a­zines, and just how does she move in that form fit­ting out­fit anyway.

I just fin­ished Detec­tive Comics issue#857 which is cur­rently fea­tur­ing the Batwoman.

I did not start read­ing this comic because of Batwoman’s figure…but as I’ve con­tin­ued to read the comic, I have to admit that the Batwoman’s fig­ure isn’t too hard to look at, and the story doesn’t hurt the comic either.

I had read a comic from Mar­vel Comics many years ago, the comic was Red Sonya and while I remem­ber that I was into the comic because there was a con­nec­tion with the Conan series..now Sonya is part of the Dyna­mite sta­ble of char­ac­ters along with another femme fatale, Jun­gle Girl, a sort of Shanna wanna be…

Jun­gle­girl with art by one of the best female fig­ure artists ever Frank Cho, who is also respon­si­ble for this…

Is there some­thing in the above pic that

” Hangs Out ”

there for you?

And here is one of the lat­est pics from Red Sonya below…

Dynamite’s Red Sonya, Chain mail and all!

So, what are you think­ing at the moment?

Is this okay with you?

Is this a per­fectly accept­able direc­tion for comics to be headed these days?

Would you buy a Red Sonya comic for the story or just for the art..or both?

Be hon­est with your­self now…As Amer­i­cans is this accept­able for our comics and our sensibilities?

Well, this is just the first of many ques­tions I want to ask…in part two I want to know…Would You Take Your Ten Year Old Into Today’s Comics Shop?