Practical Women's Superhero Costume Redesigns
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The original targets of comics were closer to breast feeding, than their first date.
Stimulating their sex drives, will just push those 10 year old boys towards 10 year old girls and away from comics.
Sexualizing women in comics was an unprofitable decision.
If you get a boner from an American comic, there's something wrong with you, not something right about the comic.
European comics are a horse of another filthy colour.
I'm not sure I follow this line of thought at all.
Are you saying women are not sexualized in comics?
The original targets of comics were closer to breast feeding, than their first date.
Stimulating their sex drives, will just push those 10 year old boys towards 10 year old girls and away from comics.
Sexualizing women in comics was an unprofitable decision.
If you get a boner from an American comic, there's something wrong with you, not something right about the comic.
European comics are a horse of another filthy colour.
I'm not sure I follow this line of thought at all.
Are you saying women are not sexualized in comics?
There shouldn't be such a huge gap between degrading to women and useful to wankers.
There's a great scene in the series Lois and Clark where Clark's mother sews costume after costume for Clark to try on for his parent approval, including one which is basically Elektra's outfit.
Which is why most superhero costumes in movies and TV these days are crap. The designers all think they should fix something that isn't broken in the first place so they can sell the idea of superheroes to a demographic that includes people who wouldn't normally suspend-disbelief for live-action superheroes.
Given that the movies and TV these days are the bulk of the market for superheroes, I'd be inclined to give the designers credit for having better instincts on how to grow an audience than the comics companies showed over the last, say, twenty years.
Try convincing children to continue buying weekly 10 to 20 units, at 3 to 4 dollars per unit every week.
$300 a month, every month, from every child in America until the end of time.
That's what a healthy Comics industry would look like, so that's why the industry is not healthy.
Almost a religion with shades of chronic addiction is necessary.
Meanwhile for a movie to make 2 billion dollars, like Avengers did, all that needs to happen is that everyone in the first world chooses to view it 4 times over the course of the flicks opening weekend.
$300 a month, every month, from every child in America until the end of time.
That's what a healthy Comics industry would look like, so that's why the industry is not healthy.
Almost a religion with shades of chronic addiction is necessary.
Meanwhile for a movie to make 2 billion dollars, like Avengers did, all that needs to happen is that everyone in the first world chooses to view it 4 times over the course of the flicks opening weekend.
Try convincing children to continue buying weekly 10 to 20 units, at 3 to 4 dollars per unit every week.
$300 a month, every month, from every child in America until the end of time.
That's what a healthy Comics industry would look like, so that's why the industry is not healthy.
Almost a religion with shades of chronic addiction is necessary.
Meanwhile for a movie to make 2 billion dollars, like Avengers did, all that needs to happen is that everyone in the first world chooses to view it 4 times over the course of the flicks opening weekend.
Wait wait wait wait wait!!!
Are you saying that comic books are $3-4 a pop, now???
Many, many decads ago, when the plans for Utopia Planitia (Mars, Mars Station) were just a gleam in Tenix's (Williamstown, Victoria) eyes, comic books were 10¢ or 12¢.
3-4 bones a piece???
I am all for Shades of Addiction, but, Holy Drachmas, Batman!
Try convincing children to continue buying weekly 10 to 20 units, at 3 to 4 dollars per unit every week.
$300 a month, every month, from every child in America until the end of time.
That's what a healthy Comics industry would look like, so that's why the industry is not healthy.
Almost a religion with shades of chronic addiction is necessary.
Meanwhile for a movie to make 2 billion dollars, like Avengers did, all that needs to happen is that everyone in the first world chooses to view it 4 times over the course of the flicks opening weekend.
The industry has its problems but having access to comics online should help, I would think. That said, I agree with Stan Lee about online versus print. "Comics are like boobs. They look great on a computer, but I'd rather hold one in my hand"
Digital Comics look better on a 43 inch TV.
Try convincing children to continue buying weekly 10 to 20 units, at 3 to 4 dollars per unit every week.
$300 a month, every month, from every child in America until the end of time.
That's what a healthy Comics industry would look like, so that's why the industry is not healthy.
Almost a religion with shades of chronic addiction is necessary.
Meanwhile for a movie to make 2 billion dollars, like Avengers did, all that needs to happen is that everyone in the first world chooses to view it 4 times over the course of the flicks opening weekend.
Wait wait wait wait wait!!!
Are you saying that comic books are $3-4 a pop, now???
Many, many decads ago, when the plans for Utopia Planitia (Mars, Mars Station) were just a gleam in Tenix's (Williamstown, Victoria) eyes, comic books were 10¢ or 12¢.
3-4 bones a piece???
I am all for Shades of Addiction, but, Holy Drachmas, Batman!
Here are the industry sales figures for this January.
http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2015/2015-01.html
Marvel sold almost a million issues of Star Wars #1 at $5 per unit.
A million of anything is unusual, and only happened, because lookiloos came in out of the wood work to appreciate Star Wars for Star Wars sake.
A month later, and a dollar cheaper, they'd lost 838,000 readers.
Comic books are for adults, or fantastically spoiled rotten children.
Digital Comics look better on a 43 inch TV.
And easier to deal with than a 43" comic book.
Remember this?
http://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Woman-Spirit-Graphic-Novels/dp/1563898616
I'm not sure if they get bigger than that.
http://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Woman-Spirit-Graphic-Novels/dp/1563898616
I'm not sure if they get bigger than that.
And, in movies and TV these costumes have to be worn by real human beings; without changes most of them wouldn't be suitable for children to watch.
Try convincing children to continue buying weekly 10 to 20 units, at 3 to 4 dollars per unit every week.
$300 a month, every month, from every child in America until the end of time.
That's what a healthy Comics industry would look like, so that's why the industry is not healthy.
Almost a religion with shades of chronic addiction is necessary.
Meanwhile for a movie to make 2 billion dollars, like Avengers did, all that needs to happen is that everyone in the first world chooses to view it 4 times over the course of the flicks opening weekend.
Wait wait wait wait wait!!!
Are you saying that comic books are $3-4 a pop, now???
Many, many decads ago, when the plans for Utopia Planitia (Mars, Mars Station) were just a gleam in Tenix's (Williamstown, Victoria) eyes, comic books were 10¢ or 12¢.
3-4 bones a piece???
I am all for Shades of Addiction, but, Holy Drachmas, Batman!
Here are the industry sales figures for this January.
http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2015/2015-01.html
Marvel sold almost a million issues of Star Wars #1 at $5 per unit.
A million of anything is unusual, and only happened, because lookiloos came in out of the wood work to appreciate Star Wars for Star Wars sake.
A month later, and a dollar cheaper, they'd lost 838,000 readers.
Comic books are for adults, or fantastically spoiled rotten children.
Wow, and thanks for the info! I guess the kid in me is
sad, but I know the media wheels go forward, just like anything else. It also reminds me of how long it has been since I was in to comics, and also how out of touch I am with the whole industry. Christ on a Crutch, I paid $5 fora Blu-ray copy of Iron Man!
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought Christopher Reeve looked fine in a traditionalist outfit. If the filmmakers believe in the material, then it shows. If they convert all outfits into darkened sneaker-like catsuits then it reflects a lack of faith in the source material. Does the end result sell? Hell yeah, but it cannibalizes the medium. Comic books have become nothing but storyboards for films anyway. Stick a fork in it.
Or... they just like a different look better. As someone who liked the classical look fine, I found all the fanboy whinging about Henry Cavill's suit in Man of Steel to be completely absurd and misplaced. There is in fact room for looks to evolve; Christopher Reeve's suit was itself a result of that process, for that matter.
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^Once Grell got ahold of him, 2970s Cosmic Boy was showing more skin than any of the girls.