"Fabletown" claims to be a sort of Comic Book Renaissance movement turning away from Superheroes. This art could be Adam Hughes, I don't know. I realize that most Comic fans would find this pretty innocuous, and certainly not "Porn" in the familiar sense, but take a closer look.
First, you get every "flavor" of woman: blond, brunette (or brown), redheaded and black hair. All bases are covered there. And, not only are the women as slim and elongated as any fashion model, they also have massively pendulous breasts completely out of proportion to their body-types. For their breasts to be this freakishly large would require either implants or some incredible rare genetics.
They are also depicted in bed, and their expressions reflect joy, exuberance or pensiveness. You can fill in the rest yourselves without more ethics lectures from Hoffman, but my salient point is that this stuff is still more objectification and exploitation of women, and that fact that it's front-and-center as a promotional image doesn't say much good about the health of Comics generally or of this new- self-proclaimed "break" from the status quo, "Fabletown".
It's no break at all, kids--it's exactly more of the same.
1 comment:
That image has nothing to do with comic books.Looks like an ad for coffee or something.Poor Adam Hughes is forced to draw that same airbrushed girl for eternity,possibly If he drew Ben Grimm or the Hulk he wouldn't be able to pay the rent. The only artist I know that draws real women is Jaime Hernandez, and he writes real stories to go with them!Glad you started posting again Mike! The latest Orb book is amazing!
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