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@filipfatalattractionrblog submitted:

This above is the design of Penelope Pitstop in DC Comics’ upcoming series “Wacky Raceland”. Which is either a gritty reboot of Wacky Races that turns them into Fury Road knock-off…or a parody of such idea, it’s really hard to tell from how little we have right now.

For comparision here is the original cartoon version:

Normally I’d make some sort of witty comment here, but this is just too baffling, words cannot describe it.

You know, it’s kind of impressive – under normal circumstances I’d be pretty okay with a wasteland heroine having a ride like this:

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But this is one of the many problem with “gritty reboots” and other re-imaginings of things made for children: They make the female characters “gritty” by sexualizing them to a ridiculous extent.

The guy and the dog up front appear to be Dick Dastardly and Muttley:

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In both cases, while their attire was created with intent of making them look intimidating and dangerous… making this a case of a pet receiving more practical attire than a female character.

The Internet is already filled with places where you can find images of characters from your childhood to whack off too – there is no need publish an official comic with imagery like this.  Especially not one where you’re trying to pass every other character off as an actual gritty reboot.

– wincenworks

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I’m really amazed how someone managed to take an 80s cartoon and make it more tacky.  That’s impressive given how much of 80s animated shows were not so subtle toy ads in disguise.

Their outfits were pretty tacky but at least they were across the board tacky… now the dudes get solid chest piece armor and for the uninitiated – despite the layout on the cover – Saber Rider is the blond dude in blue, not the lady in pink.

That’s April Eagle – and they really don’t want you to forget she has boobs and long flowing blond hair. She’s the love interest after all:

Dear Lion Forge more comics like Crystal Cadets and less… like this.  Or if you must make them like this, at least try to limit them to things like re-imagining sexy people are sexy super heroes rather than sexing up stories for children.

– wincenworks

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me4fanart:

Men of the Normandy – Kaidan by Me4Fan

Cover art for Men of the Normandy

The fic makes it clear this is Kaidan volunteering to help out but as we know from Samara’s design – this is a totally practical way to go into battle if you’re a highly skilled biotic warrior.

So really it’s just oppressive uniform regulations that prevent Kaidan from going into battle like this all the time. Think of all the empowerment we missed out on.

– wincenworks

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me4fanart:

Men of the Normandy – Kaidan by Me4Fan

Cover art for Men of the Normandy

The fic makes it clear this is Kaidan volunteering to help out but as we know from Samara’s design – this is a totally practical way to go into battle if you’re a highly skilled biotic warrior.

So really it’s just oppressive uniform regulations that prevent Kaidan from going into battle like this all the time. Think of all the empowerment we missed out on.

– wincenworks

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@whereismywizardhat submitted:

There are no words

Apparently this is coming to North America in Summer (the northern hemisphere’s summer).  Will this be the next game with a controversial localisation? 

I have to say, for a turn based game they seem to have spent a disproportionate amount of work on inventing fighting moves that flaunt leggy outfits and teasing upskirt shots.

Given that the game’s title is about how it’s a world ruled by dragons, and your goal being to get rid of dragons – the warriors who are going to jump around like that would get something other than short skirts… or whatever it is the rune-kinght has.

– wincenworks

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How do you feel about Proctor Ingram in the new Fallout game?

For anyone not familiar, this is Proctor Ingram *:

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Short answer:

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The longer answer is someone more complex and has the necessity of spoilers, so pretty much all of this response sits below a cut.

Spoilers for Fallout 4 below the cut.

Proctor Ingram is a high ranking officer within the Brotherhood of Steel who happens to also be living with a major disability – she lost her legs and is instead relying on a specially modified suit of power armor for mobility. 

We’re not really qualified to talk about how this reflects in terms of representation of said disability and unfortunately have not been able to find any helpful opinions or well informed articles talking about it. (If you know any please do link us to one)

However, the use of her armor as a prosthetic is, from an armor design perspective, very awesome and one with a lot of historical precedent.  The MET Museum has an iron prosthetic hand (sadly no image available) from the 17th century. Below is another prosthetic hand made to be used in battle (circa 1580) for a man who was renown as a great warrior:

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Despite the wide spread belief that soldiers are always super strong, in perfect condition etc the reality is that if you fight a lot you run a good risk of getting hurt, and sometimes you’re expected to fight even if you’re not in perfect condition or even fully abled in the first place.

Dr Tobias Capwell did a talk about Richard III’s scoliosis and how armorers built around scoliosis and a plethora of other issues.  To quote Dr Capwell, “Armorers are biomechanics.” We’ve also mentioned it briefly in How Do I Armor.

Designing armor to assist wearers with disabilities and to allow further inclusion of characters living with disabilities is most certainly a much overlooked aspect of the art and one that we’re always glad to see more emphasis put on for improving diversity and appreciation of armoring.

– wincenworks

* Image via Tauriq Moosa.

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gearydigit:

How do you feel about Proctor Ingram in the new Fallout game?

For anyone not familiar, this is Proctor Ingram *:

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Short answer:

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The longer answer is someone more complex and has the necessity of spoilers, so pretty much all of this response sits below a cut.

Spoilers for Fallout 4 below the cut.

Proctor Ingram is a high ranking officer within the Brotherhood of Steel who happens to also be living with a major disability – she lost her legs and is instead relying on a specially modified suit of power armor for mobility. 

We’re not really qualified to talk about how this reflects in terms of representation of said disability and unfortunately have not been able to find any helpful opinions or well informed articles talking about it. (If you know any please do link us to one)

However, the use of her armor as a prosthetic is, from an armor design perspective, very awesome and one with a lot of historical precedent.  The MET Museum has an iron prosthetic hand (sadly no image available) from the 17th century. Below is another prosthetic hand made to be used in battle (circa 1580) for a man who was renown as a great warrior:

image

Despite the wide spread belief that soldiers are always super strong, in perfect condition etc the reality is that if you fight a lot you run a good risk of getting hurt, and sometimes you’re expected to fight even if you’re not in perfect condition or even fully abled in the first place.

Dr Tobias Capwell did a talk about Richard III’s scoliosis and how armorers built around scoliosis and a plethora of other issues.  To quote Dr Capwell, “Armorers are biomechanics.” We’ve also mentioned it briefly in How Do I Armor.

Designing armor to assist wearers with disabilities and to allow further inclusion of characters living with disabilities is most certainly a much overlooked aspect of the art and one that we’re always glad to see more emphasis put on for improving diversity and appreciation of armoring.

– wincenworks

* Image via Tauriq Moosa.