No softness here.
Turns out this character looks like a cross between a walking gem show and an overblown bodybuilder with a really tiny head, the idea being I guess that crystals and diamonds are hard and so they'll make muscles seem harder too. I was instinctively revolted and naturally had to figure out exactly why.
I'd also add that this character is best known for "killing" Superman, which is yet another example of Comics falling on its face. Killing the hero is easy and obvious, and dumb because a dead hero never was a hero.
In this case, the analysis didn't take long. My feeling is that "Bodybuilding" and the body-image it represents is like the opposite of anorexia in women--though in all fairness, men can have anorexia too. What the promotion of this steroidal imagery does is tell males that their bodies aren't up to society's current standard, in the same way that Pornography tells them.
Hoffman gets in the way again.
And nowadays, not only is mainstream Porn making some guys pressure their wives and girlfriends into getting surgery etc, but they also are getting pressure to adopt the male porn-star "tat" look. In fact, the Porn industry is actively promoting its own lines of fashions for a mainstream audience.
And Comics have bought into Porn, mainly via its intense inferiority complex of recent years. Those feelings make it imitative of any other popular medium--Movies, especially, and Gaming, as examples, and most disturbingly, Porn. That's Marvel and DC, kids.
The key indicator for Pornography is basically simple: it's when you objectify another person for your own sexual satisfaction.
Here's a brief artist's statement I wrote to accompany my "Doomsday" drawing.
“My intention with Doomsday was to
depict a man-made creation symbolic of evil that has been transformed into
fertilizer for flowers while beings from a different vibratory plane visit to offer
him their love and good wishes for his new life.”
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