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In reply to the discussion: I'm done, too. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)When you look at the titles that do the best in sales, I don't think you're going to find a lot of them are female-body-centric.
Most people don't look for the comics with the 'sexiest females'. They read specific series - Spiderman, Iron Man, the Avengers, Superman, etc, etc. (In my case, back in the day, Blue Devil, who, apparently, wasn't like by anybody but me.) Whether or not there even are any females shown in any given issue probably doesn't even affect sales from issue to issue. You're not going to 'not buy' an issue of a series you read simply because there are no 'sexy females' drawn in it.
What's going on here is two different things - First, an argument that the overall way in which women are drawn in comics falls in line with misogynistic standards. And the answer to that is yes. But second, the argument that it's driven by current demand. And I think the answer there is no. I think it's driven by a small number of artists, who created the styles that are used as guidelines by most artists. Get more artists in who don't hyperexaggerate human bodies, don't use weird contorted poses, but keep the storylines going, and I really don't think you're going to see any real drop in sales.
That's why I think people were 'talking past each other'.