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The Lea Hernandez thing is kinda sad and on target, but, really, is a blatant ass-shot that detrimental? Compared to, oh, the entire Chuck Dixon or Rob Leifield catalog(s)? Does Jae Lee have to stop drawing a sex-in-water, trident-in-the-shorts-packin' Namor, now?
I'm not going to turn this into a 'having kids rots your brain's funner functions' deal, but Hernandez herself as seemed to get a bit more readily concerned with how sexy/sexified something is, hasn't she?
Still, no Miller Batman has ever and perhaps can never reach the glories of 'Dark Knight Strikes Again'.
And maybe Lea Hernandez and other 'keep panties out of the superbooks' folks are right, but y'know what? Frederic Wertham was fucking right! Kids might be sexually effected, might be cognizant of aspects of sexuality in their comics and their lives? Adults, who're the bigger audience for superhero books at this point, are most likely, as well. And, when you consider adults, hopefully, you're considering at least the portion of the possible comics audience who are capable of actually sustaining a thought while wearing highly-detailed panties and flaunting their nice asses, or, perhaps, those of us capable of believing there is a sustained thought and perhaps listening to it being voiced, while the voicing party prances around their apartment in highly-detailed underwear. In other words, the cognizantly shameless, such as Frank Miller, and not the repressed, paranoid, shame-filled fatbeards who, most most most likely, comprise the bulk of the actual purchasing audience. For which, surely, there is an Alan Moore-lite written, Rob Leifield clone drawn, knockoff of 'Cherry' in a battle bikini, somewhere on the racks. Or, right there in 'All-Star Bat...' there's the psychodrama of Robin the Boy Lovetoy and his big, sulky sugardaddy... or Alfred, who's looking pretty good, these days but could use more ass-shots and torn tights.
Seriously, though, if you consider this in terms of action stories, strictly, it's miles above, say, 'Rambo' which features the only women as the most useless appendages possible, as Hooker Number One and Replacement for Daddy Who Catches Bullet. |
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