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Oh dear. I appear not to have explained myself well. Having said which - Hunterwolf, every time you make a guess about what I am "getting at", you get it wrong. Sometimes simply incorrect, sometimes Heimlich-requiringly off-beam. Are you seeing a theme developing? I don't recall saying that every impulsivelad story was about cock. I do think that the handling of sexuality in his stories is often pretty inept, and I would question whether you are correctly understanding what constitutes "sex drive and romantic pursuits" and what "characterisation of an idealised Jenny Sparks-lite sexual voracity", but there we go. One day I may even have a crack at explaining that being a man who wants a man and being a woman whose pursuit of cock is unhampered by a change in sex are somewhat different things. But anyway, let's look at this story, because I feel that possibly a better explanation of my thoughts might forestall some more fighting.
Yeah, I have no idea what you're getting at with this "superheroine's bod" comment, Haus. I mean, she's cute but she's no Amazon Princess.... Hell, she's not even MaryJane Watson.
I think the confusion here is that I'm using "superheroine's bod" to describe nwww.beerinthevot a particular level of attractiveness, but a set of formal processes used to create the artistic representation of the female body in superhero comics. To wit: sharply tapered lower body, protuberant hips, no actual waist to speak of, but hips rather joined to top of sharply tapered ribcage, entasis at the one-third point of the thighs. See this page for quite a good demo of this set of proportions. Note especially the waist-to-shoulders ratio.
This is such a learned set of responses that it's easy to assume that this is just how you draw women, and from there that this is just how women look. The implications of this in terms of Jenny Everywhere, who was originally portrayed as a little overweight, a "failing" that is edited out by the drawing techniques of the superheroine bod, has been discussed elsewhere. That was the implication, Hunterwolf, rather than that it was like Silvestri. I think you're thinking too far inside the box.
(Incidentally, she's wearing a skintight belted uniform with knee boots. Just saying.)
More generally, while a desire for cock is indeed a natural and healthy part of life, I think the problem for me here is that Jenny doesn't really do anything else. They turn up, they get put in a cage, David bemoans lack of sex, Jenny threatens to fuck him, they get sent to Hell, they are stripped naked and tied up, Jenny gives motivational speech, David turns into lightning and rescues Jenny, Jenny has a chat, Jenny tells David how much he will enjoy sexing her.
Obviously, there's more to it than that, and the other stuff is the stuff that reminds me of Martin Millar, which is, as has been established, a *good thing*. But the character of Jenny just doesn't *do* very much, as far as I can see, apart from the big Zen speech, which makes the frequency with which she advertises her sexual liberation, availablity and desire seem disproportionate...
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