Just a Girl Living in Captivity

[doronjosama]

Johanna over at Comics Worth Reading has a report of Wizard magazine's newest low point. To whit, it's a "game" where you identify which artist drew which female character's booty. Uh, hello? Comics industry? What the fuck?!

Now, I will be honest here, I love looking at shapely ladies. I like watching them on TV and in movies, I like classic pinups, I have a big collection of Bettie Page merch, and I am all about girls with curvy derrieres. But when girls are reduced to NOTHING BUT THEIR PARTS, my feminist ire gets riled. And boy, am I ever riled now. I am even more riled to discover that a previous issue had a similar "game" where you identified female heroines by their breasts alone! Golly!

I am so glad I haven't read an issue of Wizard in years. Yuck.

Comments

[jetbaby.livejournal.com]

Charming - I can't believe I actually wrote for those knobs for a time.

[the-mouthpiece.livejournal.com]

Wow. They got a huge heap of shit for the tits-or-tat game. (No that's not what they really called it) I'm suprised that they went with their rump redux.

[missmonstermel.livejournal.com]

"I am so glad I haven't read an issue of Wizard in years"

Me too. I hate the whole overcompensating "we are dorks but we are MEN" shit.

[redcoatcat.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you people would be offended if a "Identify these heroes by their crotch bulge" happend.

=^,,^-

[kenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see, Wizard.

[cudjo-dog.livejournal.com]

*sad*

And some people wonder why comics is still predominantly (but slowly changing) a boy's club.

[graphicnovelist.livejournal.com]

Wizard has been self-consciously been trying to become the MAXIM of comics... to distinguish it from what, I dunno since other than the Comics Journal (and maybe, maybe Alter Ego), there really isn't any other game in town to compete with.

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Any chance of Wizard doing a "identify the artist by the male crotch bulge" contest? :D

[reyfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm, goodness, She-Hulk couldn't be the one with the green butt, could she? I guess I'm just in the minority of manhood in that I don't like having my intelligence insulted.

The other thing I notice is the typeface is just like the one used in Entertainment Weekly. Maxim and Entertainment Weekly, that's setting the bar pretty low. Before I saw this, I could rebut anyone who would look down their nose at me for reading comics by saying, "Yeah, well you read Entertainment Weekly."

[rsjr.livejournal.com]

˜\(°_O)/˜

[brokenlibrarian.livejournal.com]

http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/10/27/indy-answer-to-wizard/

[ursulasart.livejournal.com]

Coals to Newcastle:
http://ratcreature.livejournal.com/175099.html?thread=696315
(Joke for Phil: What are you carrying? Garlic!)

[crowhen.livejournal.com]

Heh, I like male and female forms immensely. Still, it's icky. It makes me feel ashamed that I used to read Wizard on a regular basis. Well, until it went all pop-y.

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

What is this, Howard Stern?

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out what's offensive about it, as opposed to stupid and pointless. I feel it's mocking its readers, as in 'This is all that you care about when you read comics, so let's see what kind of obsessive ass fetishist you are.' Or maybe it's a statement about the comics industry, that it's now taken for granted that superhero comics have a secondary function as softcore erotica.

[chasecorbeau.livejournal.com]

I know! I know! Let's have a contest, same pictures and artists and everything, where we try to guess which artist was a virgin when he drew said "booty!"

[darkkof.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say that is an AWESOME Clue icon... what a great movie that was based on one of my most favourite board games....

[hauptmann.livejournal.com]

Yay for pandering to the lowest part of thier consumer base.

[daifu.livejournal.com]

It could have been a humour piece like, 'Bob likes to draw booty this way, Jeff likes this kind' or a 'How well do you know your artists style'piece. Maybe. But in execution it's all fanservice. :/

I disagree with the article about the Wizard articleon the point of 'possesivness'. I think that's pointless nitpicking and reaching. Considering how many different artists have drawn characters like Superman, Wonder Woman, She Hulk officially and how blurred some of the creator credits are, it seems appropriate to designate a redition as “Steve McNiven’s Dagger”. “Bob Something's Dagger drawn by Steve McNiven" is more complete but so very much editor chopping block material for wasted space. Now Bob's the possesor too :/ and it's not like the artists are at fault for being credited that way.

just my opinion

[aelius24.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I'm starting to see some frightening parallels to the "late" G4 channel with this.... Maybe it's a good thing I decided not to subscribe.

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