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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 12, 2016 14:05:30 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Oct 12, 2016 14:32:37 GMT -5
I got the preview issue, but never got anything in the series. I might have bought the preview just for that reason. Seeing as I didn't care for what Avatar did with Lady Death or Nira X when they took over the titles.  I owned Brian Pulido's Gypsy for years. The breasts of the titular (sorry, couldn't resist the pun) protagonist, splashed across the front covers each month, were the most interesting thing about the comic. Totally forgettable pretty pictures, without a decent story to hang them on. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 12, 2016 15:39:15 GMT -5
I owned Brian Pulido's Gypsy for years. The breasts of the titular (sorry, couldn't resist the pun) protagonist, splashed across the front covers each month, were the most interesting thing about the comic. Totally forgettable pretty pictures, without a decent story to hang them on. Good thing I passed. As I said before with Lady Death and Nira X, they took characters, while obviously existing for male titillation, turned them into just that. Choas and Entity at least were respectful to their creators. I felt like Avatar tried to steer Bill Maus towards making it an adult comic. There were no nude variants of Nira at Entity. Though it's moot as it didn't last long at Avatar for whatever reason. Which is too bad. I think some of the "bad girls" of the 90's get lumped in hindsight as terribly sexist and for adolescents. Hell I didn't even start reading Lady Death till around 2000 or so. And found that, yes she is a buxom gal with a tiny waist, that depending on the artists, couldn't stand up against that weight, still had good stories, with lots of another male and female characters that made the reading interesting. It's like dismissing any depth in Eminem's music because he uses vulgar language. And I spent half my life being taught that by my parents, so I can be pretty passionate about it. And I rambled. But, in conclusion, I didn't really like what I read of what Avatar put out. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 3:27:38 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 4:24:10 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 19:28:43 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 10:52:31 GMT -5
@popzeus
Modesty Blaise is a favorite character of mine ... thanks for posting those covers and jarring my memory banks too.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 15, 2016 16:39:42 GMT -5
@popzeus Modesty Blaise is a favorite character of mine ... thanks for posting those covers and jarring my memory banks too. What is a tag anyway? I'm kind of winging it around here, so I don't know what half this stuff means. Is it just because you mentioned my name in your post or something? Just put an @ sign before a poster's registered name -- that's usually the same as their forum name, but not always. Yours is popzeus, rather than dian_sometimes, for instance, whereas mine is confessor like my user name. So, if I type an @ sign before popzeus, it comes out like this... @popzeus By the way, just gotta ask, is your user name a reference to The Cure song "Charlotte Sometimes"? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 15, 2016 17:24:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2016 10:59:23 GMT -5
Venus
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 16, 2016 17:05:55 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 18, 2016 18:52:09 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 19, 2016 4:18:08 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 5:34:47 GMT -5
Kind of reminds me of the outfits that Erin Gray wore in Buck Rogers of the 25th Century of where she played Colonel Wilma Deering.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2016 16:24:44 GMT -5
Note to young comic artists who seem to think that breasts spilling our and costumes riding up into the unknown are sexy; a beautiful, strong character in a jumpsuit can be just as hot. A little imagination goes a long way. Just ask Emma Peel, Modesty Blaise, Black Widow, and a few select others. Looking through these pages, I've seen cheesecake, beefcake, headlights, back ends, girl on girl, guy on guy, bad girls, bad boys, provocative, cute, and everything in between, and a healthy dose of fetish. We are an interesting lot, in the comic world. Bondage goes without saying, as even Overstreet had annotations dedicated to bondage imagery. How many B&D enthusiasts got a thorough education in the world via comic books and similar media? I can say my youth saw a lot of Wonder Woman and Lois Lane covers, with the ladies bound and gagged, while tv gave me a lot of women in peril on cop and detective shows, as well as Wonder Woman, the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman and a whole lot more. When I was young, we had a bookmobile come to town once a week (we didn't have our own public library) and I discovered the Michael Fleischer Wonder Woman Encyclopedia there, filled to the brim with boondage images from her early adventures. It's no wonder (forgive the pun) DC reprinted the "Villainy, Inc" Wonder Woman epic, again, in the new Millennium, in that 80-pg giant special. I do have to say, the peril back in those 60s and 70s shows and comics, compared to things like CSI and movies of today, were far more innocent and play-acting, then the terror you see now. Anyway, here's at least a cute little one, with a bit of sexy, from one of my favorite comics:  Adam Hughes got his break here and his art was missed, though others picked up the ball and delivered sexy, when the series went to Innovation (a company that specialized in sexy covers). Speaking of Innovation, sexy, and bondage, here's one of my favorites, from their line:  It also gave us this, for spanking enthusiasts:  |
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