I can’t help but think that if, in 2009, Marvel had consistently put as much effort into pitching the Supehero/Spy crossover angle and making James Woo look like… well James Woo (instead of the Punisher) as they did in making every one of these covers assure the reader that this issue contains a half naked superhero lady then maybe Agents of Atlas would be memorable title.
After all they mostly did that in the 2006 season and the series got to make a comeback in 2009, but now it’s pretty much forgotten and nobody even bothers to keep the url parked any more.
It’s almost like these ridiculous costumes don’t sell comics or something.
– wincenworks
@sapphiresoliloquy submitted:
So, I decided to play a game called Aurcus Online, these are the two player characters. Hopefully I got all the right tags.
I’m really curious how they managed to have a few common traits but still have her outfit look so removed from his. Did one of them have their design revised many times and the other just get signed off on first draft?
– wincenworks
Okay so… there’s so much to unpack here but I’d just like to focus on
- Dudes get cool costumes based off various power fantasy tropes, women get ridiculous outfits
- Apparently people in this world who aren’t white or Asian are… weird shark monsters or horrible witchdoctor tropes.
Apparently the developers over the game do know how to make a badass female character though, just they keep leaving her out of group shots:
Meanwhile the creators of the comic seem to have created a new female character just for the comic, what kind of role does she have….
This is why we can’t have nice things.
– wincenworks