Is it just me or do all Marvel/DC women look the same?

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#1  Edited By TSCTH

Disregarding artists individual styles and the younger characters, all women in comics seem to be proportionally the same. Only costume, hair and eyes seem to be individual, while legs, hips, stomachs, bust and arm seem to be the same. In fact, if you put 'em in the same regular clothing and covered up their head, then nobody would be able to tell most of them apart. The men on the other hand have various amounts of muscle mass, height and body fat, which makes them easier to tell apart (though some seem to be physical copies of each other).
Compared to the men in comics, they seem very 2 dimensional. And why is that? Do artist feel that clothing and hair are the only physical definitions of women? Is just easier to define a woman based on clothing? Or are they afraid to define a physical body that might not be beautiful or sexy in 10 years?
 
I for one would like to see women that are more individual in appearance, instead of the ones now, which have one body with interchangeable heads. 
 
Whats your opinion?

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#2  Edited By PowerHerc

I know what you mean, but I think there are some differences.

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#3  Edited By TheCrowbar

Show us a few examples of what you mean?

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#4  Edited By the_stegman  Moderator

i'm pretty sure if you put a bag over Powergirl's head and put her in a line up with a bunch of women from Marvel and Dc...i could pick her out

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#5  Edited By TSCTH
@TheCrowbar said:
Show us a few examples of what you mean?
That gonna be pretty hard, considering no one has really made the aforementioned test.
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#6  Edited By harleyquinn12

I don't notice this all the time, but there is one exception. 
 
Women Of Marvel #2
Women Of Marvel #2
 
 
 
Uncanny X-Men #532
Uncanny X-Men #532
 
 
It's not that I don't like Land's art, it's just that when everyone looks the same it gets on my nerves.
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#7  Edited By TheCrowbar
@harleyquinn12 said:

I don't notice this all the time, but there is one exception. 
 
Women Of Marvel #2
Women Of Marvel #2
 
 
 
Uncanny X-Men #532
Uncanny X-Men #532
  It's not that I don't like Land's art, it's just that when everyone looks the same it gets on my nerves.
I don't like Land's art. For just that reason. I don't know if he traces, but I don't like the porn star look.
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#8  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator
@harleyquinn12
 
All blondes are generally based off the same porn star, so.....
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#9  Edited By JonesDeini
@JediXMan said:
@harleyquinn12:   All blondes are generally based off the same porn star, so.....
Tabernacle preach man, especially when it comes to Land's work. Terry Dodson has a bad habit of drawing all (human) women alike  as well. 
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#10  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator
@JonesDeini said:
@JediXMan said:
@harleyquinn12:   All blondes are generally based off the same porn star, so.....
Tabernacle preach man, especially when it comes to Land's work. Terry Dodson has a bad habit of drawing all (human) women alike  as well. 
With Dodson, it's brunettes.
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#11  Edited By JonesDeini
@JediXMan:  
oh indeed, man.
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#12  Edited By TSCTH

Maybe they should work out a system to describe each heroines physical attributes, height and weight.

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#14  Edited By fesak  Moderator

You should all love Big Bertha more, she's awesome.
Let's start a petition to get her on the Avengers and X-Men
 

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#15  Edited By cattlebattle

Well, thats why Land and Dodson get employed to do X-Men, all the women have different hair colors except Emma and Dazzler, I mean when is the last time that someon made Psylocke actually look Asian in any way

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#16  Edited By gravitypress

Frank Cho has this problem.

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#17  Edited By Aronmorales
@TSCTH said:
Maybe they should work out a system to describe each heroines physical attributes, height and weight.
Here here!
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#18  Edited By TSCTH
@Aronmorales: Can that kinda thing be petitioned?
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#19  Edited By Aronmorales
@TSCTH: I'd like to think so.
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#20  Edited By Nova`Prime`

Well to be fair can't you almost say the same thing about the heroes?

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#21  Edited By karrob
@PowerHerc said:

I know what you mean, but I think there are some differences.

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@fesak said:
You should all love Big Bertha more, she's awesome.
Let's start a petition to get her on the Avengers and X-Men
 
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oh god this is SO WRONG!!!
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#23  Edited By TSCTH
@Nova`Prime`: I already pointed out the fact that some heroes are the same. ^^
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#24  Edited By difficlus

Big Bertha is really a generic supermodel so...kinda nullifies that 
I agree, 90% of them look the same basically. 

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#25  Edited By Feliciano2040
@TSCTH said:
Disregarding artists individual styles and the younger characters, all women in comics seem to be proportionally the same. Only costume, hair and eyes seem to be individual, while legs, hips, stomachs, bust and arm seem to be the same. In fact, if you put 'em in the same regular clothing and covered up their head, then nobody would be able to tell most of them apart. The men on the other hand have various amounts of muscle mass, height and body fat, which makes them easier to tell apart (though some seem to be physical copies of each other).Compared to the men in comics, they seem very 2 dimensional. And why is that? Do artist feel that clothing and hair are the only physical definitions of women? Is just easier to define a woman based on clothing? Or are they afraid to define a physical body that might not be beautiful or sexy in 10 years?  I for one would like to see women that are more individual in appearance, instead of the ones now, which have one body with interchangeable heads.   Whats your opinion?
 
You should check out Adam Hugh's illustration of the DC women, they are all dressed in the same white gowns and they are all recognizable.
 
Still, I get what you mean, it's quite simple, all comic book women HAVE to be beautiful if they're centerpiece characters (Amanda Waller = not a centerpiece character), and the visual queues (sp) for attractiveness are pretty much deciphered, artists know that symmetry, lean-shaped face, long hair, protruding (sp) hips, curvaceous feautres, breasts or backside, all have to be eye-catching, and that's why most of comic book women are "very" similar sometimes.
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#26  Edited By Deadcool
 
 

Deepends on the artist... 
But I love when women looks like this...
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#27  Edited By Feliciano2040

^ DAMN !
 
Hughes isn't it ?

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They all seem to have the same face...
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#29  Edited By Pizawle

I just realized almost no faces have any texture to them.

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#30  Edited By Timandm

It's not you....  They all have the same bodies...  It's the hair, skin tone, and noses that change...