wtf: medieval melons go to war

Has the illustrator ever seen a woman’s breasts? Like ever? Even setting aside my standard gripes about warrior women in push-up bras, no armor and nudity being kept “warm” by the presence of a dishcloth-sized fur capes, not even FAKE BOOBS look like that. He may as well have added a femur or a few extra elbows while he was at it.

The poster looks like someone grafted water balloons onto her chest. I mean, forget the size, they’re not even shaped right. Was the artist drawing from a Martian anatomy reference?

Maybe those are her pecs because she has awesome upper body strength?

Maybe years of seeing comic book art just like it has caused my internal sense of scale to go all whack, but I guess I really don’t think her boobs are any bigger than Olga’s real boobs than Michael’s muscles are bigger than his real muscles.

Yep, what bronxbee said. The whole point of that poster is to show us that her dough has risen. And they’re awfully shiny and round, like she polishes them. Shouldn’t they be covered, anyway? In a tussle they might get scraped. Did the Roman-Celts have any sports bra technology at all?

she’d have your eye out with a smack from one of those – they’re quite terrifying actually

isn’t she mute in the film?

I’ve seen the movie. Kurylenko wears sensible clothes throughout, as far as I recall. It’s Fassbender who is shirtless, a lot.

This rather reminds me of the cover artwork for the ’80s 8-bit shoot-’em-up Game Over. The original artwork caused so many complaints from parents that the pneumatic lady was given a bit of a cover-up in subsequent advertising. (Just as well, as it was evidently a bit chilly out.)

Neither gender comes out very well in this sort of thing, though. The ‘women’ are grossly out of whack and the (presumably) men who designed the things come across like socially inept teenage boys with a bin full of Kleenex.

Now just to get this out of the way first, Linda Carter became the canonical image for Wonder Woman for damn good reason. That’s a victory for justice as far as I’m concerned.

But those flesh-colored titanium Battle Spheres, which I guess we could euphemistically call “boobies”, are emblematic of a large swath of very un-just problems with comics. And not only is a social justice sense, but in the sense of doing justice to the libidos of the adolescent boys who are targeted by this stuff. I mean, the two outcomes when they grow up are either that they can only become aroused by women who have taken their clothes off on the Howard Stern Show, or they have to live the rest of their lives with a sense of shame and betrayal having been tricked into oggling creatures that were not, strictly speaking, women.

The worst of this is Rob Liefeld. I couldn’t remember his last name, so I literally typed “rob women broken spines” into Google and it knew who I was talking about before I even hit the search button. Even as hormone-addled crazily immature early teen who hadn’t ever been closer to a woman than Rob has, I realized his gigantic-breasted non-existent-waisted “women” were horrific.

Actually now that I think about it, maybe I owe him a debt of gratitude, because by the mid-90s I was entirely over that whole “aesthetic” and now just roll my eyes at things like the poster above. All because Rob took it so over the top he broke it, just like his poor female characters’ backs.

Another sexist, male bashing article. You trolled off topic by dragging a sexist, exploitation example of a male into your comments instead of staying with the issue of the woman’s breasts. You should follow your own guidelines and censor yourself. Pathetic !