There are too many people and too few human beings
I have to say that when deciding to maybe check out this series that I was a little hesitant at first. As I have said before I was a little skeptical of the issues based on the depiction of the women on the cover, but evidently from the first issue of the monthly series I discovered that the cover was like a tease that never got satisfied, instead telling a decent story in its place. To be honest though I am still a little skeptical of the series so instead I figured to go to the place which might most turn me off of the series, and that was the swimsuit issue. Did it? Well surprisingly not (surprising to me at least.) To put this in perspective something like this issue could be compared to the first issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws which featured a scantily clad Starfire. The difference? Here instead of simply exploiting the female characters, there is a story which actually almost criticizes the portrayal of people this way. As Sela and Belinda sit poolside in Las Vegas they witness vain people thinking only about themselves, but when a disaster strikes it causes them to act in a more heroic fashion (some of them). Sort of like "yes you are reading a swimsuit issue, but are you reading it only because you like looking at pictures of scantily clad women?" It was an interesting approach, but really most of the issue was a relative throwaway except for the art, but the short story did put a nice spin on it.
