It’s the style of the classic Bakshi fantasy films, though, which this is clearly primarily drawing on. I love it, personally.

I mean... It’s 4 year old post, and it was one that was actually about something io9 ultimately covered multiple times - that hardly feels narcissistic, but was, rather, demonstrably relevant (it was originally a part of the Liquid TV reboot being discussed, after all).

io9 kindly posted this rotoscope animated short film, Exordium, that I did last year, and certainly nothing was more influential on it than Bakshi's LotR. That, and Heavy Metal, were definitely huge eye-openers to me at an influential age.

Two dragons remains on the island, since the group can see the eyes of the others and accuse them, by consensus, of having green eyes, they enforce the rule and all of the accused have to turn into swallows, but the last 2 can only see that the other is the one with green eyes, so do not condemn themselves.

I'm arguing that what constitutes an object of desire is in the eye of the beholder - if you look at sexual images of men chosen by women (say, /ladyboners on reddit) it is largely muscular men with broad chests and idealized musculature, not particularly dissimilar to these below. Certainly there is a common thread…

Callipygian - great word!

That's not really what I'm getting at. A particular emphasis on poses and parts of the body as connoting desire is largely cultural, not intrinsic. I'm saying that a 'power pose' of an idealized human form can also be construed as sexual, regardless of gender. Some exaggerated versions of idealized men and women are…

I was hoping someone would do a less bad-on-purpose render of the pose - thanks for posting it here.

That certainly happens, as well, for all the forms that people and characters can take. There are literally hundreds of millions, if not billions, of non-sexual illustrations of female superheroes in existence, unless the very act of skin-tight clothing is to be presumed sexual.

I'm claiming that what can be construed as a male power fantasy can often simultaneously be construed as a sexual fantasy for people attracted to men, which makes most dismissive assertions of such void. I'd also argue that actual male power fantasies aren't particularly tied to physical appearance as much as they are…

No argument there, but that's a problem with mainstream American culture's perception of sexuality. If the purpose of criticizing this comic cover is to challenge that perception - isn't it? - I think this is going about it in a manner that reinforces those cultural sexual limitations rather than broadening them.

Sure, but that's the choice being made by those people in regard to what parts of their body they want to emphasize sexually, not something inherently different. Hip-Hop performers do tend to focus on hyper-sexual heteronormative gender roles, but Folk singers don't, right? Two individuals might not choose to…

And that is the core weakness to the argument against this image (and of the gender-swapped boob window) - the point is that genders are treated equally: a butt is a butt, a chest is a chest, and a crotch is a crotch. The penis is not the male equivalent or replacement for every depiction of female sexuality, it is…

It's really not note for note from Spirit - it's sort of similar, and its only a small part of the larger song. Immigrant Song is closer to Ride the Sky than those two are to each other, I'd argue. Howlin' Wolf and Clapton spent their whole careers reinterpreting their forebears, because that's how art - and…

Appeals to copyright in the art realm are usually quite silly. In this case, they arranged blues standards like hundreds of others before them, and they absorbed inspiring ideas from their contemporaries like almost every artist ever. Lucifer's Friend is awesome, and Spirit is less so, but both songs in question are -…

Oh man, this is an echo from the past! I completely forgot this was ever posted here. To your question, assuming you are referring to my Mongrel cartoon - wow, 3 years ago! - then and now, sex with my awesome wife is pretty much daily! I don't really do Flash-ish animation anymore, but the rotoscoping is going…

This cover speaks nothing to sexual agency, though, and the arguments I've read over the last week seems to be rooted in 'sexual imagery in the context of comic characters authorized by major publishers is wrong,' and very little discussing what's actually wrong with it beyond the assumption that we should all be…

It's a variant cover (isn't it?) and I'm sure it was intended to harken back to Manara's work in Heavy Metal. I don't see why awesomely unsexualized Kamala Khan shouldn't be able to exist in the same universe as a hyper-sexualized Spider-Woman. Sanding off all the non-politically-correct edges in mainstream…

It is staggering how many people here are both unaware of Milo Manara as a legendary erotica artist, and how many people seem to think art has to be limited to realism.

You're confusing producing wealth with capturing wealth.