Here’s a closer look at the Special Forces cover that was in the previous post.
(Cover of Special Forces #4, Image Comics)
According to some notes, this is supposed to be a satire comic.
How about then we compare it to an eerily similar NON-SATIRE comic cover by J. Scott Campbell?
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Hint: a responsible satire doesn’t straight-up reproduce the satirized thing, but puts some sort of twist on it. And I don’t mean a torso twist.
Also no, using the Disney font for the author’s credit doesn’t yet make the whole artwork “ironic”.
~Ozzie
I love it when designers have pretty okay looking female armor (like maybe a some subtle boob dents and or it’s very very fitted despite being METAL) but the give her a thigh-high boots and leave that oh so precious strip of sexy, sexy leg flesh DIRECTLY where the femoral artery is
Like someone doesn’t even have to slash them she could easily just cut herself on her own armor and fucking die before going into battle someone please stop the nerds jfc
Exactly! We regularly laugh at the ubiquity of exposed thighs in female armor because of that.
Here are some highlights of that costume design trope from our ‘no pants’ tag:
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And let’s not forget about the ones which shamelessly display the double standard:
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[x]
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Maybe fictional female warriors lack major blood vessels in their limbs just as often as they lack spines and vital organs in their torsos?
~Ozzie
I love it when designers have pretty okay looking female armor (like maybe a some subtle boob dents and or it’s very very fitted despite being METAL) but the give her a thigh-high boots and leave that oh so precious strip of sexy, sexy leg flesh DIRECTLY where the femoral artery is
Like someone doesn’t even have to slash them she could easily just cut herself on her own armor and fucking die before going into battle someone please stop the nerds jfc
Exactly! We regularly laugh at the ubiquity of exposed thighs in female armor because of that.
Here are some highlights of that costume design trope from our ‘no pants’ tag:
[x]
[x]
[x]
And let’s not forget about the ones which shamelessly display the double standard:
[x]
[x]
[x]
Maybe fictional female warriors lack major blood vessels in their limbs just as often as they lack spines and vital organs in their torsos?
~Ozzie