Birds of Prey by Kelley Thompson and Leo Romero

[Agent Z]

If loving Kevin Wada's Bruce Wayne showing off the goods is odd, I don't want to be normal.

This day and age encourages people to be more open about it.



Sometimes you're not in the mood for anything too explicit. And you can save the pictures of these covers for free too.

The collectors who want all the covers and also like cheesecake/beefcake get something out of it

The funny thing is, we'll still get people complaining about how "sexless" superhero comics have become.

[Pohzee]

It is covers like those that make checking solicits at work particularly nerve racking for fear of being seen browsing past such a cover without context.

[Primal Slayer]

It is covers like those that make checking solicits at work particularly nerve racking for fear of being seen browsing past such a cover without context.

It is work for a reason lol

[Felipe Silveira]

Well, even though it's not Adam Hughes, there is an audience. I'm not going to lie, I bought Deathstroke Inc. 1 for a reason...

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[The Cool Thatguy]

It is work for a reason lol

Narc! Narc!

[marvelprince]

The funny thing is, we'll still get people complaining about how "sexless" superhero comics have become.

Haven't they? I feel like superheroes aren't nearly as horny as they used to be.

[Frontier]

Haven't they? I feel like superheroes aren't nearly as horny as they used to be.

Well, compared to the 90's/early 2000's...

[Laser_Man]

Haven't they? I feel like superheroes aren't nearly as horny as they used to be.

I think being sexless and being horny are largely unrelated.

Comics back in the day were just horny in a shallow, pandering way. Sex wasn't treated as something normal, but instead as a way to entice the reader.

Modern comics portray sex in a more healthy and positive manner.

[phonogram12]

I think being sexless and being horny are largely unrelated.

Comics back in the day were just horny in a shallow, pandering way. Sex wasn't treated as something normal, but instead as a way to entice the reader.

Facts.

Modern comics portray sex in a more healthy and positive manner.

And generally, when it is portrayed in a healthier and more positive manner, it's often accused of being "woke" (even though most who use that word can't even define it).

[Frontier]

The cover felt like it was channeling Adam Hughes so on that level I think it works.

[Thirteen]

I think being sexless and being horny are largely unrelated.

Comics back in the day were just horny in a shallow, pandering way. Sex wasn't treated as something normal, but instead as a way to entice the reader.

Modern comics portray sex in a more healthy and positive manner.

I think quite the opposite.
Sexuality was dealt with with more serious hand in days of yore or just not dealt with at all. In modern post-CCA days, its a punchline. Serious relationships are rare to find. In some ways it's great that sexual freedom has its place but in other ways it feels more like just a pandering move.
* discussion might deserve a thread of its own. Over in Xbooks there's a whole branch of discussion about Storm being shown waking up naked imbed with a character she's only been shown going on one date with*

[Konja7]

I think quite the opposite.
Sexuality was dealt with with more serious hand in days of yore or just not dealt with at all. In modern post-CCA days, its a punchline. Serious relationships are rare to find. In some ways it's great that sexual freedom has its place but in other ways it feels more like just a pandering move.
* discussion might deserve a thread of its own. Over in Xbooks there's a whole branch of discussion about Storm being shown waking up naked imbed with a character she's only been shown going on one date with*

I don't think we are speaking about serious relationships.

In the past, characters were sexualized a lot to entince the (horny) readers, while the characters don't really have or deal with sex. That isn't a serious way to handle the topic.

Now, characters being promiscuos isn't really pandering. The pandering only happens if the artist takes the opportunity to oversexualize the character.

[Konja7]

The sales for the Birds of Prey comic seems to be pretty good:

In october 2023, its position was 15 in ICv2 ranking. Now, this isn't necessarily a reliable source, but it's pretty good Birds of Prey is so high.


https://icv2.com/articles/markets/vi...s-october-2023

[Frontier]

The sales for the Birds of Prey comic seems to be pretty good:

In october 2023, its position was 15 in ICv2 ranking. Now, this isn't necessarily a reliable source, but it's pretty good Birds of Prey is so high.


https://icv2.com/articles/markets/vi...s-october-2023

Seems like we're a lock for a second arc. I wonder if they'll do a completely different team next arc.

[marvelprince]

I think being sexless and being horny are largely unrelated.

Comics back in the day were just horny in a shallow, pandering way. Sex wasn't treated as something normal, but instead as a way to entice the reader.

Modern comics portray sex in a more healthy and positive manner.

Depends on the time I think. In the 90's to the 2000's sure you had a lot of overly sexualized characters and lots of hookups of no substance but I think generally speaking comics used to play up on the soap opera aspect of relationship even more than they do now. It used to be fun figuring out the romances, love triangles, unrequited feelings etc but outside of the Krakoan Era I don't comics take on sex and relationships have been very conservative the last few years.