Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF!?
This is a blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, specifically how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous, impossible or disturbing ways that sacrifice storytelling.
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Nemica submitted:
Frank Miller, ladies and gentlemen. I don’t even know how to tag this.
I hope this hasn’t been submitted too often.
Interestingly, I don’t think anybody’s ever submitted it because so many people were turned off by the writing in All-Star Batman and Robin and just tuned it out.
But yeah, it’s a cover that’s entirely Wonder Woman’s butt.
Sanaton submitted:
Hi! Thank you for the awesome blog, I’m a long time reader, first time submitter.
I saw the post about Frank Miller’s Wonder Woman on your blog and thought that these might of interest to someone.
http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/?p=13
Here’s an article about how Vicki Vale is portrayed in DC Comics’ All-Star Batman and Robin. What I find most interesting are the script notes the writer Frank Miller wrote to Jim Lee (the artist):
And here’s a picture of Vicki Vale from the same album (All-Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder #1), a picture of Vicki Vale after a car accident, and she is about to die:
There’s nothing sexier than broken ribs.
Priorities.
