I'm going to disagree with you slightly - the people that make comics have a HUGE interest in reaching out to a female audience. Only utter morons cut themselves off from 51% of the market when another option is viable. The comics industry has been attempting to reach out to women for years.

oh man, it's like the point flies past you fast enough to break the sound barrier. guys are NOT sexualized as much as women - if you honestly believe that you need a reality check - and guys don't whine about it when it happens? please. ONE male character being sexualized to a fraction of the extent women are has…

thanks so much for letting us all know what women want. if it weren't for your bravery people might be tempted to listen to all those actual comic book reading women saying what they actually want. bravo.

And the majority (MAJORITY!!) of men would like to see a sexy heroin-

"Bi-gender gay male comic book"... "Some butch dyke female that is wielding a sword"...

Um, have you ever actually talked to a women about this? Because I, as a female reader of comics, would like to see more men in sexy poses. And all these redrawn poses have been at least slightly titillating for me.

Can I just suggest we step away slightly from the alarming crypto-misogyny in DayBreak's comment and focus more on the issue at hand : that being the terrible terrible anatomy demonstrated in the example comics.

Sexy ≠ Breaking your spine so that we can see their breasts and ass at the same time. If they just wanted to draw breasts and ass, they don't need to humiliate a popular fictional character to do it.

I honestly believe that part of what you say is right: when a comic appeals to a certain audience it is normal to draw what the audience wants to see.

So if something's dumb and sexist, it should just stay dumb and sexist? Because it's meant for an audience who likes dumb and sexists?

The MAJORITY of people inside my head think that comic book covers and most female superhero art is embarrassing as hell.

I understand where you are coming from, but the reason that this bothers women who read comic books is because women are the objectified gender. As the objectified gender, women are often shown many pictures of "titilating" women in all forms of media and are, in a way, expected to be like those women. Comic books are…

Yeah, guys sure love their sexy heroin.

I specifically said a department store, not a men's clothing store. According to wikipedia, "A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a WIDE RANGE of durable goods and products to the consumer's personal and residential needs."

You are missing part of the point here. You can draw a sensual, sexy, attractive woman without breaking her spine. If a pose would break a man's spine, it would also break a woman's. The contortion present in the poses is so much more obvious when drawn with a masculine figure because artists don't feel the need to…

It's not that we want to see weak men, it's that we want to see equally strong woman in less spine-breaking positions. It's not PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE for most of these poses to happen. There's a funny thing called anatomy...

So then according to you Game Reviewers shouldn't exist, and neither should movie, film, music, book, art, comic book, food, theatre, opera or any other endeavour should never be reviewed, correct?

Well I can trace better than Land, so does that mean I can critique him now?

people can see what is good and what is not, without having the talent to actually do so yourself. the whole "Try to do better" argument is just so flawed.

I don't really agree with that statement because it means artists like this are beyond reproach if it's not some other artist who can do it better than them. It's like saying any other critic's opinions such as in film, music, food, etc, mean zero just because they don't do what they do. I think a critique that is…