WOMEN OF MARVEL: Appreciation for all the heroines in comics (and behind the scenes)

[Sea Hound]

I like to see more of a range too. Sometimes it's the same body type over and over for women in comics. (And men for that matter, although there's a bit more variation). It's very visually dull when you have a cover full of women, who all look pretty much the same.

Take someone like Kitty, who's notoriously small breasted, like in this gorgeous cover and who's one of the most popular X-Men. (Including among men, who's tastes aren't actually as completely standardised as comics would make you believe). Or Wasp, who's usually drawn smaller and slighter than the other female Avengers.

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Not saying take all the bombshells out of comics, because that's part of what many of the characters are. But why not have a slender Kitty, a buff captain America, a Valkyrie who looks like she can throw a proper punch, an Emma Frost with the best E-cups money can buy, a Rogue who's eaten her fried chicken, gone back for seconds, and is working her curves, and a Sif who's actually go strong enough arms to lift her sword.

[Tiamatty]

I like to see more of a range too. Sometimes it's the same body type over and over for women in comics. (And men for that matter, although there's a bit more variation). It's very visually dull when you have a cover full of women, who all look pretty much the same.

Take someone like Kitty, who's notoriously small breasted, like in this gorgeous cover and who's one of the most popular X-Men. (Including among men, who's tastes aren't actually as completely standardised as comics would make you believe). Or Wasp, who's usually drawn smaller and slighter than the other female Avengers.

Or Jubilee, whose irritation at being flat-chested was a pretty amusing running gag in her early appearances.

And then this happened. Because some artists just can't stop themselves.

[Sea Hound]

Or Jubilee, whose irritation at being flat-chested was a pretty amusing running gag in her early appearances.

And then this happened. Because some artists just can't stop themselves.

Perfect example. She's completely unrecognisable when she's too sexed up. I think Coipel's version is pretty much impossible to improve on. In my head at least, that's the shape, face, and attitude.

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[Starleafgirl]

1) She's probably over the top muscularly but that's okay because not every female character should be "hot."

2) BUT there's somebody for everybody so somebody out there probably thinks she's hot.

3) And that makes her just right.

Amen!

Or Jubilee, whose irritation at being flat-chested was a pretty amusing running gag in her early appearances.

And then this happened. Because some artists just can't stop themselves.

OH I KNOW RIGHT? WTF??

However, this is the one I was thinking of: New Warriors Jubilee:



Though to be fair, everyone had a fair bit of "prettification" plastic surgery in that book, two of the most extreme examples being Beak and Angel.

Perfect example. She's completely unrecognisable when she's too sexed up. I think Coipel's version is pretty much impossible to improve on. In my head at least, that's the shape, face, and attitude.

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Yeah, that's a good one!

[CJStriker]

A-FORCE #1

G. WILLOW WILSON & MARGUERITE BENNETT (w) • JORGE MOLINA (a)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
INHUMANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT
VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
VARIANT COVER BY STEPHANIE HANS
VARIANT COVER BY JORGE MOLINA
YOUNG VARIANT BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
BLANK COVER VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
• Marvel’s Mightiest Women finally get their own explosive series!
• In a secluded corner of the Battleworld, an island nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has only ever been glimpsed before…
• Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that’s left, the Amazing A-FORCE stands shoulder-to-shoulder, ready to take on the horde!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

[Starleafgirl]

A-FORCE #1
G. WILLOW WILSON & MARGUERITE BENNETT (w) • JORGE MOLINA (a)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
INHUMANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT
VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
VARIANT COVER BY STEPHANIE HANS
VARIANT COVER BY JORGE MOLINA
YOUNG VARIANT BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
BLANK COVER VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
• Marvel’s Mightiest Women finally get their own explosive series!
• In a secluded corner of the Battleworld, an island nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has only ever been glimpsed before…
• Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that’s left, the Amazing A-FORCE stands shoulder-to-shoulder, ready to take on the horde!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Squee, I wonder if this means Rogue, Storm, and Wasp will be supporting players to the main cast?

[Rogue Star]

Perfect example. She's completely unrecognisable when she's too sexed up. I think Coipel's version is pretty much impossible to improve on. In my head at least, that's the shape, face, and attitude.

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Yes, that's a classy look right there!

[Sea Hound]

A-FORCE #1

G. WILLOW WILSON & MARGUERITE BENNETT (w) • JORGE MOLINA (a)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
INHUMANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT
VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
VARIANT COVER BY STEPHANIE HANS
VARIANT COVER BY JORGE MOLINA
YOUNG VARIANT BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
BLANK COVER VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
• Marvel’s Mightiest Women finally get their own explosive series!
• In a secluded corner of the Battleworld, an island nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has only ever been glimpsed before…
• Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that’s left, the Amazing A-FORCE stands shoulder-to-shoulder, ready to take on the horde!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Spectacular cover. Dauterman's one of the best Marvel has. If that's the actual team, then this looks like it's going to be a fun book. And since She Hulk is being cancelled, I need one which isn't grimdarkmurder cool.
It's a proper Rogue, not Emo, not hiding in a hood, big smile and leading with her fists. Proper sparkly disco Dazzler, not weird Bendis version. Shulkie, and Wasp: two of the least dark Avengers.

[Sea Hound]

Amen!



OH I KNOW RIGHT? WTF??

However, this is the one I was thinking of: New Warriors Jubilee:



Though to be fair, everyone had a fair bit of "prettification" plastic surgery in that book, two of the most extreme examples being Beak and Angel.

!

Erk. Splinching incident with Emma Frost. The black choker covers the join.

[Thirteen]

Indeed, She-Hulk should be super-muscular. That's the only way She-Hulk really makes sense.

One of my favorite aspects of the Dan Slott run on She-Hulk was that despite the cover portrayals of She-Hulk being along the lines of this:
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Interior artist Juan Bobillo still depicted Jennifer like THIS:
(welcome to the gun show!)
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[Marvel Forever]

Have any of you noticed that Sue Storm is missing from the A-Force? I guess this is all part of Marvel's plan to put the Fantastic Four on the shelf for a while?

[Silvermoth]

I'm just so interested in finding out how g willow wilson will write nico minoru. Like the young avengers, nico is no longer a child and I would expect her to start getting more adult responsibilities. Maybe if it all works out well enough (which I'm sure it would) nico might even get her own book?

I've often thought she was too big a character for a team book like runaways even though I love all the characters

[Shinglepants]

I dig the look for Captain America 2099, it's just one of those things that make sense.

Think I've posted the following pics before on another thread, but I really like Sejic's depiction of She-Hulk too. Looks a lot closer to her male counterpart and definitely has the muscle mass. Not sure many people would share my view though.

[Rogue Star]

I dig the look for Captain America 2099, it's just one of those things that make sense.

Think I've posted the following pics before on another thread, but I really like Sejic's depiction of She-Hulk too. Looks a lot closer to her male counterpart and definitely has the muscle mass. Not sure many people would share my view though.

Oh, I hadn't seen that second one yet. Cool.

[Starleafgirl]

Have any of you noticed that Sue Storm is missing from the A-Force? I guess this is all part of Marvel's plan to put the Fantastic Four on the shelf for a while?

I guess so. I mean, Sue will be in a story in SHIELD that tells a tale from the past...


http://marvel.wikia.com/S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_3_4

...But I seem to recall reading somewhere about a new Fantastic Four. I thought it was the May solits but it isn't there anymore. Weird. I think it was a story in a Secret Wars title.

I dig the look for Captain America 2099, it's just one of those things that make sense.

Think I've posted the following pics before on another thread, but I really like Sejic's depiction of She-Hulk too. Looks a lot closer to her male counterpart and definitely has the muscle mass. Not sure many people would share my view though.

I like it!