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A woman states she was raped. The Barrister gives her advice. She should be happy for the attention? Because, gee, she’s overweight? Hear that my fellow fatties? We should feel lucky if we are assaulted, it’s the only attention we might get.
Tentacle Porn? (Link is not work friendly!)
On the cover of a comic supposedly appropriate for ages nine on up? People are alreadytalking boycott…and while I am not at the point of not buying anything Marvel, (I tend to prefer in rewarding the positive-not hurting the good to send a message about the bad) I can really understand the people who are ready to do that. Of course, I think DC is doing just as piss poor a job in how they treat women in their comics, and this is not any worse that what DC has offered us…but it’s equally insulting.
What’s going on in editorial that this cover was not seen as a bad idea? Come on Quesada and Co. This one should have been a no-brainer. Are you trying to get people to run like Forrest Gump away from your company? But then, as the sell out of the Mary Jane statue shows, Marvel isn’t really worried about what a fair number of readers think…as long as the fanboy dollar is there.
Why do you work so hard to alienate so many, big two?
Update: Heidi MacDonald over at the Beat gets a little more in depth.
