Spider-Woman Debuts Modern Makeover with New Costume

[lilyinblue]

Ms. Marvel has made impact?!

Hugely, yes.

[ZeoVGM]

Ms. Marvel has made impact?!

Uh, yes. Without question.

[ZeoVGM]

I love her old costume. Out of all the classics, it's one of my favorites.

But this is cool too. It tones down the blatant sexual factor, which is nice to see.

[thecrimson]

I love her old costume. Out of all the classics, it's one of my favorites.

But this is cool too. It tones down the blatant sexual factor, which is nice to see.

Given her powers, I don't know why that's a nice thing to see. I don't know why some characters can't just have a sexy outfit that isn't in anyway realistic. I adore the design, but I detest this realistic trend.

[Mathieu B]

Finally. I thought her current costume was in need of an major redesign for quite some time.

[Punisher007]

Her old outfit was essentially just a red, black, and yellow jumpsuit. It's only as "sexualized" as a particular artist CHOOSES to make it. And some artists depicted it well. The one's that didn't, well that's one THEM not the costume. Admittedly my first thought when seeing this was the same as when I first saw Carol's new costume "is this change preparation for a future film/TV appearance?"

[thecrimson]

Today's superhero trend: Let's take the superheroes and put them in regular clothes.

[Rogue Star]

Her old outfit was essentially just a red, black, and yellow jumpsuit. It's only as "sexualized" as a particular artist CHOOSES to make it. And some artists depicted it well. The one's that didn't, well that's one THEM not the costume. Admittedly my first thought when seeing this was the same as when I first saw Carol's new costume "is this change preparation for a future film/TV appearance?"

I thought the same. That's another reason I like it.

[lilyinblue]

It's only as "sexualized" as a particular artist CHOOSES to make it.

Not in every case, honestly. Just consider the old costume for a second... if you isolate the yellow shape on the front, it frames and accentuates her breasts, while creating a giant yellow arrow pointing right down at her crotch. An artist could make it better or worse... treating it more like body paint than spandex, as many often did... but the more subtle/subliminal aspects of it weren't going to go away no matter who drew it.

[thecrimson]

Not in every case, honestly. Just consider the old costume for a second... if you isolate the yellow shape on the front, it frames and accentuates her breasts, while creating a giant yellow arrow pointing right down at her crotch. An artist could make it better or worse... treating it more like body paint than spandex, as many often did... but the more subtle/subliminal aspects of it weren't going to go away no matter who drew it.

Well her powers did included turning men on lol.

Also got a response from Spider-Woman's writer and he doesn't disagree that costumes in comics don't need to be functional.

[Den]

Damn. I really liked her old costume and will miss it. This new costume is not an abomination by any means, but it doesn't really wow me either. I wouldn't have known it was Jessica if the article hadn't said so since we have so many alternate spiders appearing at the moment.

Maybe it will grow on us, or maybe it's just a phase and something more like the original will come back in a year or two.

[Marvelboy1974]

I was wondering where I had seen this "redesign" before.....

[Kuwagaton]

If Javier Rodriguez takes over I'm sold.

I think the outfit looks amazing, though I find it silly how everyone and their mother is pushing for comic book characters to have more functional costumes or things that people would wear IRL.

Agreed. I actually thought her classic costume sucked and I'm not sad to see it go.

[Rogue Star]

Not in every case, honestly. Just consider the old costume for a second... if you isolate the yellow shape on the front, it frames and accentuates her breasts, while creating a giant yellow arrow pointing right down at her crotch. An artist could make it better or worse... treating it more like body paint than spandex, as many often did... but the more subtle/subliminal aspects of it weren't going to go away no matter who drew it.

I noticed those too but it still wasn't enough to sexualized her outfit to me. It was always the way the artist drew her that made things sexual in my opinion.

[thecrimson]

I noticed those too but it still wasn't enough to sexualized her outfit to me. It was always the way the artist drew her that made things sexual in my opinion.

Depending on the artist, nearly any costume can be sexualized or over-sexualized even if the initial costume was in no way sexy.