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Jan. 27th, 2008 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pktechgirlbackupI read Ocean, by Warren Ellis today, and was shocked at how butch looking the only woman in form-fitting clothing was (there were two others in looser clothing), because she wasn't acting particularly butch, and she had decent sized breasts, and that didn't compute. Partway through, I realized that she looked butch because she was drawn with the proportions of an actual woman. I think comics might be giving me a skewed perception.
On the other hand, the story was a boring action adventure sequence that totally wasted its awesome premise. So no cookie for Ellis.
And while I'm on the topic, a note to the Fables illustrator: does every female Fable have to follow the 21st century flat-stomach/big-tits model of beauty? Even those that were children in the stories? I'll almost cut you some slack about the ages, since Alice and especially Red Riding Hood's stories were about growing up, but dear god, every last one is either a lingerie model or a 100 year old hag. And don't try to claim it's because the stories say the are beautiful, because the current model of beauty would have looked freakish in 1602.
On the other hand, the story was a boring action adventure sequence that totally wasted its awesome premise. So no cookie for Ellis.
And while I'm on the topic, a note to the Fables illustrator: does every female Fable have to follow the 21st century flat-stomach/big-tits model of beauty? Even those that were children in the stories? I'll almost cut you some slack about the ages, since Alice and especially Red Riding Hood's stories were about growing up, but dear god, every last one is either a lingerie model or a 100 year old hag. And don't try to claim it's because the stories say the are beautiful, because the current model of beauty would have looked freakish in 1602.
