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?
Is it just me or do all Marvel/DC women look the same?
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
I don't notice this all the time, but there is one exception.
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.
I don't notice this all the time, but there is one exception.
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.
@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.
@JediXMan said:With Dodson, it's brunettes.@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.
It's because in comics, they all have the most common superpower.
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
Maybe they should work out a system to describe each heroines physical attributes, height and weight.Here here!
You should all love Big Bertha more, she's awesome.oh god this is SO WRONG!!!
Let's start a petition to get her on the Avengers and X-Men
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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