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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 3, 2015 9:17:01 GMT -5
This book was a variant and some bought it for the ..um ..information on the cover. Battle Chasers #1  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 3, 2015 10:58:48 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Jan 3, 2015 12:03:20 GMT -5
This book was a variant and some bought it for the ..um ..information on the cover.  There is absolutely nothing about this cover that I find sexy in the least, outside of maybe her green eyes and red hair. What is happening with her right breast? Is she somehow raising it to almost chin-level with her right arm as she daintily lifts her skirt, or is it always that ridiculous size and shape? Also, judging by the amount of material that is on her left hip, there is no need for her to lift the right side of the skirt to show off her tattoo and other...assets below the waist.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 3, 2015 14:05:29 GMT -5
I like a lot of Joe Mad's work, AoA Astonishing X-Men being one of his best in my opinion. I think from that he can draw sexy women but I also think Battle Chasers was not his best. The story if fairly good, but unlike say Warren Vampirella, who is sexy, looked sexy, it didn't seem to try as hard as Battle Chasers. Astonishing X-Men 1-4 www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=90081 |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 3, 2015 21:42:34 GMT -5
This book was a variant and some bought it for the ..um ..information on the cover. ] [/a][/quote] There is absolutely nothing about this cover that I find sexy in the least, outside of maybe her green eyes and red hair. What is happening with her right breast? Is she somehow raising it to almost chin-level with her right arm as she daintily lifts her skirt, or is it always that ridiculous size and shape? Also, judging by the amount of material that is on her left hip, there is no need for her to lift the right side of the skirt to show off her tattoo and other...assets below the waist.
[/quote] I'm with you. Nothing remotely sexy about that. Deformed but not sexy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 11:30:31 GMT -5
[/a][/quote] There is absolutely nothing about this cover that I find sexy in the least, outside of maybe her green eyes and red hair. What is happening with her right breast? Is she somehow raising it to almost chin-level with her right arm as she daintily lifts her skirt, or is it always that ridiculous size and shape? Also, judging by the amount of material that is on her left hip, there is no need for her to lift the right side of the skirt to show off her tattoo and other...assets below the waist.
[/quote] I'm with you. Nothing remotely sexy about that. Deformed but not sexy.[/quote] I agree with you - the picture more I look at it - it's the most bizarre and ridiculously absurd way of how a female in comic book form should look like. Deformed is one good way to describe it. |
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 4, 2015 15:10:10 GMT -5
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Post by speakerdad on Jan 4, 2015 15:51:55 GMT -5
Cant' say that I've bought a comic based on a sexy cover but they can be eye catching at times...
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Post by badwolf on Jan 5, 2015 9:43:19 GMT -5
Yeah, that one's just gross to me.
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Post by berkley on Jan 5, 2015 15:32:25 GMT -5
This book was a variant and some bought it for the ..um ..information on the cover. There is absolutely nothing about this cover that I find sexy in the least, outside of maybe her green eyes and red hair. What is happening with her right breast? Is she somehow raising it to almost chin-level with her right arm as she daintily lifts her skirt, or is it always that ridiculous size and shape? Also, judging by the amount of material that is on her left hip, there is no need for her to lift the right side of the skirt to show off her tattoo and other...assets below the waist.
Yeah. Mind you, I have nothing against exaggeration as an artistic device to convey the impression you want to get across. Most, perhaps even all, comics artists make use of this technique to a greater or lesser degree. But whatever the artist was trying to do here it isn't working, for me, anyway. I grant that tastes do vary and I've never liked the Image style, but this looks like plain bad art to me. No offence to anyone who does find it effective. |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 5, 2015 20:16:38 GMT -5
Oh, I just remembered a comic I think I bought for the sexy cover:  Hey man, so I got a question. What is it about the above cover that appeals to you in a "sexual" way ? From my blinkered "straight" perspective  I get it with regards to the 2 covers below, the emphasis on the female anatomy and the sexual entendres, so subtle that even a 13 year old boy might get it. But I dont get the above issue, the Gay Comix cover before, sure, subtle as a brick, but ...oh hey, is it the whole sexy vampire fetishy thing ? I bought this one to complete a set. Yeah, That's right . To complete a set...  This is one of the few times I've bought a comic primarily based on the sexy cover. Joesph Michael Linsner is an incredible talent and I'm certainly intrigued, but completely lost with the story so despite Dawn being absolutely gorgeous, no more purchases.  As for Dawn, I too think Linsner is a great pin-up artist, but his sequential work is severely average, and the Dawn stories Ive read were poor. Mind you the teenage me who loved Vampi and Eerie for the sexy stories/pictures would have loved those. God I had no taste at times. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 5, 2015 21:58:37 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Jan 6, 2015 3:24:06 GMT -5
As for Dawn, I too think Linsner is a great pin-up artist, but his sequential work is severely average, and the Dawn stories Ive read were poor. I agree. The Dawn stories I own are full of very pretty pictures, but as sequential art they are average and the stories are totally forgettable, despite their often striking surrealism. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2015 3:39:46 GMT -5
I love Corben covers. I never thought of them as sexy though, even if there was nudity to be found. His work is so surreal and dynamic I think I've always been more drawn to the creepy lifelike shading mixed with that otherworldly fluorescent coloring. I DO collect Corben covers though, even if no interior work is done by him. Reason being is often time it's an underground comic, which I enjoy for the history if not for the story itself. Also I've been entertained by many of the Copper Age comics he did covers for, so not let down by a Corben cover comic yet.
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Post by gothos on Jan 6, 2015 16:22:26 GMT -5
One qualification to the original question might be, "Did a sexy cover influence you to buy something you wouldn't have bought otherwise?"
When many people transform from simply desultory readers to fans, fans want to read anything in a particular genre or character-run, regardless as to how much sex appeal it has-- unless sex appeal was the only thing the feature had going for it. I enjoyed greatly the Infantino Batgirl covers of the sixties, but their absence wouldn't have made me not buy a Batman comic.
Of all the genres where I think that sexy art made a difference, it's probably the humor genre. Humor comics were dime a dozen; there was nothing i them that would make one want to read them all, except maybe the occasional outstanding artist. Usually I didn't expect much real humor from joke comics, but ARCHIE primed me for sexy humor art, and I probably tended to buy them for that.
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I get it with regards to the 2 covers below, the emphasis on the female anatomy and the sexual entendres, so subtle that even a 13 year old boy might get it.
