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sherkahn (sherkahn) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-09 22:26:00

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char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: harley quinn/harleen quinzel, char: poison ivy/pamela isley, creator: guillem march, genre: previews, publisher: dc comics, title: gotham city sirens

Wordless image from the DCU blog
The bad girls of Gotham strike a pose.

Love the art.

I know there is a stripper pole hidden somewhere in this image. I just can't see it.

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	pyrotwilight 2009-05-10 08:53 am UTC (link)
	Hot. nosebleed I mean how DARE they oversexify them?! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-05-10 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	I don't have a problem with them being sexy, it's the impracticality of things like Harley Quinn in heels, or wondering why--as someone suggested above--Catwoman apparently traded her whip for a golden curtain pull, that bother me. This one isn't too bad, but a lot of (bad) cheesecake has a way of dehumanizing the women it depicts, I find. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kingrockwell
2009-05-10 10:47 pm UTC (link)

Dehumanizing, like the way Ed Benes used to draw Dinah's abdomen so long and skinny that she no longer looked human? One of the worst things about cheesecake in comics in particular is how poorly most of the artist's grasp anatomy. It not only demeans and objectifies the characters depicted, but doesn't even achieve the sexy-points it was aiming for.

Even though these covers haven't hurt my brain yet (they're gratuitous, but at least they're stylish and competent), the potential cheesecake factor has definitely put me off of GCS. I'll just get my Dini fix from Streets Of Gotham.

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parsimonia
2009-05-10 11:12 pm UTC (link)

It not only demeans and objectifies the characters depicted, but doesn't even achieve the sexy-points it was aiming for.

Yes, that's exactly it. The other side of it, is that it puts the women up on this strange pedestal where they are not people in any sense of the word, they are just this thing that is only to be looked at, fetishized and wanked over. (Heh, I think there's a slogan to be found in there somewhere: wank over people, not a lack of internal organs and musculoskeletal structure!)

the potential cheesecake factor has definitely put me off of GCS. I'll just get my Dini fix from Streets Of Gotham.

Same here. With Dini writing it one would assume it'll have more substance than Marvel Divas, but these covers deliver the same kind of message that the blurb about Divas did when saying that it was just going to be some "hot fun".

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kingrockwell
2009-05-10 11:58 pm UTC (link)

they are just this thing that is only to be looked at, fetishized and wanked over

Fetishized is exactly it. Because they no longer resemble anything in the real world, they're some fantasy completely removed from it. This kinda makes me feel less guilty for my fondness of the way Jaime Hernandez and Sam Kieth draw women, because, though stylized as any drawing will be, I can relate them to body-types of women I see every day.

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