The 7 Least-Faithful Comic Book Movies

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

- Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.

(insert a moment here for deafening roars of laughter)

Could we send Rob Liefeld back in time and perhaps add some draconian penalties for violating the code

Or anyone and everyone who have been drawing Wonder Woman over the last 20 years or so....



They draw her with zero body fat...except for her breasts, of course (which I hate to tell you guys but natural ones are 98% body fat). 

[Douglin]

Or anyone and everyone who have been drawing Wonder Woman over the last 20 years or so....
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They draw her with zero body fat...except for her breasts, of course (which I hate to tell you guys but natural ones are 98% body fat). 

Actually she's made out of clay so...you know...she can be shaped to "unhuman" proportions

...anyway It's not like all male superheroes are drawn completely realistically ...

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Actually she's made out of clay so...you know...she can be shaped to "unhuman" proportions

The gods changed clay into flesh....so she's not clay anymore.  Otherwise all you'd have to do is soak her in water and she'd dissapate ("I'm melting! Melting!")

...anyway It's not like all male superheroes are drawn completely realistically ...

  Since we know from people like Ah-nuld and Lou Ferrigno that it is possible to be as built up as your average comic book superhero....what part of the anatomy are you thinking of?

[Tripe]

I don't think the one on the right has a working pelvis. She sort of looks like the "action" figure I had of Maximillion from The Black Hole which only had one point of articulation; the bucket-head swiveled.

I hate to tell you guys but natural ones are 98% body fat.

Ain't nothing wrong with that

[Hebs]

You know, I don't think she's ever been drawn like a real lady.   

[Junkyard]

You know, I don't think she's ever been drawn like a real lady.   

She's never been written like a real one either. First she was into the bondage stuff, and they slowly evolved her into a truth goddess thing, and then... whatever. I like women to have a few flaws, physical and mental. A woman without neuroses is a woman without the ability to truly love.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

You know, I don't think she's ever been drawn like a real lady.   

Depends on your definition of a lady.

This is the one I grew up with...



In good shape but not a body-builder or a fake Barbie-doll/Pam Anderson body.  A superhero costume - not a thong.

And she did have the same issues as Superman.  Her "costume" was her human disquise.  Otherwise she's an immortal among humans trying to assist them (beginning with fighting Nazis).

And as far as the bondage thing Wonder Woman is always being tagged with....seen some of the other DC covers?

[mrbasehart]

Oooh baby.   

[Junkyard]

Uhhh... all that aside, you really have to read some of the earlier stuff to see what I mean. It's not even subtle.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Uhhh... all that aside, you really have to read some of the earlier stuff to see what I mean. It's not even subtle.

I have.



Okay....the guy who created the character had issues....along with a former student who lived with him and his wife....who he had two kids by that he and his wife adopted....a woman who is seen in pics wearing shackle type bracelets....

But that went away eventually.

[Junkyard]

I saw something fom early on where she was gagged, bound, and hooded for a charity event. I can't remember what for specifically, but I'd like to think it was just a really creepy "Make a Wish Foundation" thing.

[annearchist]

Or anyone and everyone who have been drawing Wonder Woman over the last 20 years or so....



They draw her with zero body fat...except for her breasts, of course (which I hate to tell you guys but natural ones are 98% body fat). 

Well, Alex Ross does pretty realistic female superheroes.

Okay....the guy who created the character had issues....along with a former student who lived with him and his wife....who he had two kids by that he and his wife adopted....a woman who is seen in pics wearing shackle type bracelets....

But that went away eventually.

He also invented the first lie detector. Or am I pointing out common knowledge?

Interesting that the most overt Wonder Woman bondage stories were during wartime. Comic book stories of that era focused on inspiring their readers with tales of superheroes fighting the Nazis and "Slapping the Japs" (not making that up, folks!), but they were also distractions from the more dismal aspects of wartime. It has been said that the titillating Wonder Woman stories were encouraged as a way to "entertain" the boys overseas, and to distract the folks back home.

[mlcorcoran]

yeah it wasn't until the 50s that this kind of stuff was seen as taboo. not just in comic books but in general censorship got a lot stricter in the 50s, but comics in particular are noted because of the book "Seduction of the Innocent" by some hack child psychologist who claimed Superman was a metaphor for the Nazi Ubermensch and Batman & Robin were a homosexual fantasy.

DC just recently made a reference to that book in their most recent confusing-as-hell crossover. The story arc, "Innocence Seduced" is about Captain Marvel's sister, Mary Marvel, becoming darker because of corruption from the villain Eclipso.

[annearchist]

yeah it wasn't until the 50s that this kind of stuff was seen as taboo. not just in comic books but in general censorship got a lot stricter in the 50s, but comics in particular are noted because of the book "Seduction of the Innocent" by some hack child psychologist who claimed Superman was a metaphor for the Nazi Ubermensch and Batman & Robin were a homosexual fantasy.

DC just recently made a reference to that book in their most recent confusing-as-hell crossover. The story arc, "Innocence Seduced" is about Captain Marvel's sister, Mary Marvel, becoming darker because of corruption from the villain Eclipso.

At the risk of derailing the thread, I can't recall a time where a DC mega-crossover wasn't confusing as hell.

[gbeenie]

Okay....the guy who created the character had issues....along with a former student who lived with him and his wife....who he had two kids by that he and his wife adopted....a woman who is seen in pics wearing shackle type bracelets....

But that went away eventually.

He also invented the first lie detector. Or am I pointing out common knowledge?

Sorry.

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