WOMEN OF MARVEL: CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES HANDBOOK TPB
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MIKE O'SULLIVAN & THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK TEAM Cover by TOM RANEY
This is the year of Marvel’s women, and the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is joining the celebration with this collection of profiles of the brightest female stars in the Marvel firmament! This encyclopedic volume covers the entire span of Marvel Comics and features hundreds of eye-catching characters! Entries include the good (Aurora, Big Bertha, Dazzler, Psylocke, Squirrel Girl), the bad (Hela, Moonstone, Selene, Titania, Viper) and everyone in-between (Gamora, Millie the Model, May Parker, Valeria Richards, Typhoid). This is a vital resource for any fan of the Women of Marvel! 240 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
All are pretty lame-o. The best are Sue Richards and the young Jean Grey. The Scarlet Witch rocks but eh, she's newer. DC has way better heroines and villains who are female. Even characters like Lana Lang and Lois Lane come alive as female characters if not archetypes in the DC universe. Marvel has only Gwen and Mary Jane to contrast really.
ReplyDeleteThe 60's incarnations were sexier because they were more subtle. Miniskirts and dresses remain revealing yet uniquely feminine even in a spandex context. Camel Toe and its equivalent are now bursting from the seams which is but a return to the functionality of the codpiece.
I forgot about Electra or however she spells it but this drawing seems over the top even to me because women have very different breast sizes in general and every gal on the cover appears to wear the same bra or leotard size. You have to change it up a little but I admit for some males, there's no such thing as too much breasts or behinds. Long legs are great however and except for early to middle Robin, women in comics often have bare legs. But so does film noir. Comics misses out on the beauty of the female gait in high heels but some times they have boots with a big heel.
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