James Robinson’s Justice League series finally gets solicited. This is the series that features both a lesbian and a bisexual man in the cast. Expect the usual pearl-clutching from comic book fans.
Have I mentioned that Brian Bolland tends to draw pretty sexy guys?
Brian Bolland tends to draw pretty sexy guys.
Wonder if we’ll see any “Crotch Panic” complaints over this Anita Blake cover?
I’m of two minds regarding Marvel Divas. On the one hand, it’s by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who is usually pretty reliable. On the other hand, well, this is the solicitation copy:
Diva (dee-vah), noun: An unusually glamorous and powerful woman. See: Patsy “Hellcat” Walker; Felicia “Black Cat” Hardy; Angelica “Firestar” Jones; and Monica “Photon” Rambeau. What happens when you take four of the Marvel Universe’s most fabulous single girls and throw them together, adding liberal amounts of suds and drama? You get the sassiest, sexiest, soapiest series to come out of the House of Ideas since Millie the Model! Romance, action, ex-boyfriends, and a last page that changes everything! Let your inner divas out with this one, fellas, you won’t regret it!
To be honest, it really sounds like they’re trying to pander to the gays there. But this is the cover:
And that just looks like the usual pander to the man-children there. This wouldn’t be the first time, of course, that Marvel has badly mismarketed a book. And if they are trying to pander to the gays, well, that would mark a vast improvement over past policy.
Not gay related, unless you suspect that something is up with Churchy LaFemme, but I’m excited about The Life And Times Of Walt Kelly
What the HELL is wrong with straight men?
Trading cards featuring little scraps of lingerie and high heels. Because the makers tell you that real live women once wore them.
What the HELL is wrong with straight men? Part two
A statue of the Chesire Cat staring at a woman’s naked ass. Really? That’s what you think is sexy?
I’ve noted in the past that many nerds tend to be a bit…tone-deaf, shall we say, when it comes to respecting people who aren’t white, straight, or male. In some cases this is just out of genuine, honest cluelessness.
Yeah…guys, you may be sending out some unintended messages there.
No, seriously, what the fucking HELL is wrong with straight men?
I mean, I know that from an outsider’s perspective, some things some gay men might find erotic seem odd or unusual, but what the fuck, guys? Panty flashing statues? Really?
I give up.
She’s got a crab in her crotch. Seriously, guys.
I’m going to go curl up and cry, now.
So, so disappointed in my straight male friends now. So, so disappointed…
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Are those women porn stars or something?
Okay, but Roberto.. not straight. So if the comic seems like it’s pandering to gays a bit… yah..
About the Robin costume: Is this for men to feel okay about having a Batman/Robin sexual fantasy and maintain their “heterosexuality?”
Way back in the 90′s I used to work in a comic book/baseball card store in a small southern town. The store was owned and run by the daughter of a southern preacher, so naturally we were kept afloat through sales of porn collecting cards. Seriously, I think we sold sets of hustler and penthouse cards to about 70% of the town’s police.
Anyway, we also sold those “Benchwarmer” cards, they were cheerleader and fitness models mostly in cheesecake shots. Who would buy Benchwarmers when they could have their prurient interests satisfied by penthouse or hustler? Well, the only people I ever saw buy them were two Mormon kids who’d ride up to the mall on their bikes in shirtsleeves and ties. Once, they came in to buy a few packs (I don’t remember if you got gum with the packs, but I hope not) and left, only to immediately return to the store and ask to use the phone. It seems in their rush to get to the store they had neglected to lock up their bikes, and someone had stolen them.
Not really relevant to the “What’s wrong with straight men” theme, but I so rarely get to tell my benchwarmers story I couldn’t resist the opportunity.
I am wondering, if it’s by coincidence that the purple-hued foreleg of the Cheshire cat looks a little…tumescent.
Whoa, hey, don’t be lumping all us straight men together. I have no idea either why anybody would want to buy any of that shit.
I don’t know, I think if I was straight I would find at least some if not all of that pretty sexy. Especially the Witchblade piece (if that’s what that is; I’m not sure); I mean, she’s almost naked right? And isn’t that really the main appeal for a lot of people, gratuitous skin? Regardless of how laughably absurd the context?
Consider the Brian Bolland artwork: Why should anyone find a drawing of a guy in jean cut-offs swinging on a vine amidst a bunch of chimps sexy? A lot of people wouldn’t maybe, but I sure do, cuz it’s a pretty fit, nearly naked guy, swinging right at me crotch akimbo!
I like women, and even the half naked kind in the right context…but I have to say…I am contemplating turning in my hetero license.
“A statue of the Chesire Cat staring at a woman’s naked ass. Really?”
Isn’t that pose a reference to something? Some sort of old US advertising thing? Coppertone?
*Googles*
…yep. He’s biting and tugging at her knickers, and turning them invisible at the same time.
Jeepers.
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Having bought a few import videogames in my time, I get the weekly PlayAsia mailout, including the blurb for imported manga and anime related toys, and reading the text for those, which try to describe the kit-models-of-bikini-clad-imaginary-fifteen-year-old-girls in the most innocent terms possible, is quite an odd thing.
On behalf of all of us, I apologize.
As a straight man who doesn’t find that stuff particularly appealing (having five older sisters and a daughter has a huge impact on how one reflects to objectification of women) I must also wonder what in hell is wrong with the women who associate themselves with “underpants trading cards.”
I’m not sure those connote straightness. Or is it denote? I always got those two mixed up.
Maybe there outghta be a third preference assignment. That of “skeevy.”
The Chesire Cat one… we straight men *are* the Chesire Cat :)
That and the cute girl wearing a sexy Robin costume are the only ones I’ll bother to defend. Cute girls wearing sexy versions of anything work, because breasts make everything better. Sort of like the three cute girls dressed up as sexy Daleks, which I think you posted here before.
We straight men probably don’t find the Daleks sexy, but cute girls wearing sexy Dalek costumes makes that image work for us.