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

[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.