Red Monika, of the infamously short lived Battle Chasers 90s comic, essentially defines the idea of “token sexy femme fatale”. While every scene with Red Monika in it tends to look like it’s part of a tacky porno – the rest of the comic is actually really imaginative and dramatic.
Bingo’ing her was kind of tricky since she never had a consistent costume and for the most part you only see… select parts of her in any given panel. The bingo above reflects the general trends.
To the extent I’ve noticed it seems to have more or less two fan bases: Fans of the Battle Chasers and fans of Red Monika.
What did her creator, Joe Madureira do after the comics market started to crash? Got hired to work in video games of course!
This is why we can’t have nice things.
– wincenworks
some college student submitted
This is the girl from the Ragnarok Online post a while back.
I always found it weird that a common justification was “freedom of movement” for drawing/presenting women in bikinis or lingerie with random bits tacked on as armor. Given that battle bikinis and lingerie armor generally come with accessories such as high heels, spikes jutting against the skin, and extremely tight mini-skirts, etc, such outfits would usually impede movement or even harm the wearer if they moved in certain ways. So, I’m fairly certain that the “freedom of movement” argument is kinda moot.
Finally a kind of post this blog was created for, YAY! 😀
Great point!
A very special comic for this Throwback Thursday, one that illustrates the ongoing problem with so so many designs. Remember designers: Armor is supposed to help you survive, not hinder you!
– wincenworks
some college student submitted
This is the girl from the Ragnarok Online post a while back.
I always found it weird that a common justification was “freedom of movement” for drawing/presenting women in bikinis or lingerie with random bits tacked on as armor. Given that battle bikinis and lingerie armor generally come with accessories such as high heels, spikes jutting against the skin, and extremely tight mini-skirts, etc, such outfits would usually impede movement or even harm the wearer if they moved in certain ways. So, I’m fairly certain that the “freedom of movement” argument is kinda moot.
Finally a kind of post this blog was created for, YAY! 😀
Great point!
A very special comic for this Throwback Thursday, one that illustrates the ongoing problem with so so many designs. Remember designers: Armor is supposed to help you survive, not hinder you!
– wincenworks
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
