Cover Contest Oct. 10 - 16: Gals 'n' Guns

[seismic-2]

She's not a girl who misses much. - the Beatles, "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"



I'm lazy, so I'm basically recycling a cover that I considered posting in last month's "spy"-themed contest. Post a cover that shows a female character brandishing, discharging, or at least armed with, a firearm of some sort. Pistols, shotguns, bazookas, Star Trek phasers, laser blasters, what have you. This narrows down the range of possible covers to maybe 10,000 or thereabouts, so everybody should be able to enter!

The Rules
1) Post One (& ONLY ONE) Cover that fits the theme of this Week's Contest!
2) Cover must be from a Published Comic Book or Collected Volume!
3) Covers must be Posted before Voting Begins!
4) Voting Begins 12 AM Tuesday and Runs Until 12 AM Wednesday PST (3 AM EST)!
5) Vote by Posting the name in BOLD of the Poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most! A vote need not be in bold, but it does make it easier to Count-The-Votes!
6) The Winner of the Contest is the Entry with the MOST Votes after the Voting-Period!
7) It's Okay to Discuss the Covers but if you Think Someone's Entry Doesn't Fit the Theme or Violates the Rules, you Don't need to Argue it in the thread, Simply Don't Vote for It!
8) Plus: Occasionally Voting will Result in a Tie! The Person Who Started the Thread will do the Counting that Week will Usually call for a TIE-Breaking --Vote from Someone who has Not Yet Voted!
9) AFTER the Tie-Breaker Vote, Voting Ends and the Winner is Declared by The One Who Started the Thread (or assigned surrogate) and Thus will do the Counting.
10) Have fun!

[CaptCleghorn]

Second verse, same as the first.

[Jack Dracula]

[MRP]

-M

[kjn]

My first three ideas ended up with nothing, impossible anatomy, and a bow, so…

SuicideSquad49.jpg

[Kirby101]

Had to get rid of the silly FF cover and use this gem from Sean Phillips.

[SquirrelMan]

[Enigmatic Undead]

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Silver's got a gun! Two of them actually!

[The Darknight Detective]

[Shalla Bal]

Removing cover I submitted. I will use it for another contest.


And I see someone else quoted my original post so the cover is depicted there anyway. Oh well...It's a great cover and deserves to be seen

[Shalla Bal]

double post

[The Darknight Detective]

I'm gonna be "that person" again and state my antipathy towards topics that single out women, or actually any "group" (black people, Asians, overweight people, yadda yadda yadda --you get the picture) as it usually brings forth so many objectified images. Not something I enjoy looking at.

Well, at least there were some covers out there that portray people & guns with a soupçon of class:

Nice gam on that dame!

[PaulBullion]

[kjn]

I'm gonna be "that person" again and state my antipathy towards topics that single out women, or actually any "group" (black people, Asians, overweight people, yadda yadda yadda --you get the picture) as it usually brings forth so many objectified images. Not something I enjoy looking at.

I'm of the opposite position here. First because there is a dearth of non-white, non-male characters in superhero comics, so giving them the spotlight now and then is needful. Second because it drives home how often they are objectified in the comics, but also opens up the chance to point to the good examples.

But yes, it's a tricky balance and what might be right in one context might not be it in another.