Comments on: Emma Frost: Why It’s Awkward To Read Some Comics In Public

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:33:44 +0000

TITTIES!!!!

By: JG

JG — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:45:34 +0000

Well, not necessarily those in particular, more likely he’s parodying depictions of Emma Frost and other female comic characters of the same ilk as the Horn covers.

Because it certainly failed as cheesecake if that was what he went for.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:33:10 +0000

If they are, then Kaare Andrews is an idiot because parodying Greg Horn’s covers throughout your entire run of a comic book is a dumb move.

By: JG

JG — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:05:54 +0000

Pretty sure the first ones – by Kaare Andrews – are supposed to be parodies of the latter one – by Greg Horn.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:00:16 +0000

I am honestly glad to see someone else talking about this. I stopped reading Wizard magazine after a) the content was watered down to where it was boring, and b) they put a picture of Megan Fox, wet, bra-less and cold on the cover, and when I took it to the gym I felt like I was hiding soft core porn. I just want to read stories of heroes hitting the hell out of one another! :)

By: LeighBC

LeighBC — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:08:33 +0000

Especially because, in that last one, the only way that outfit would stay there is if it is latex paint.

By: Ramon

Ramon — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:17:27 +0000

Surest way to combat this is to not support artists you don’t like that way the companies have less incentive to keep hiring that artist to do covers. Or at least, that would be the best way if you shared the opinion of the majority of the comic buying audience who mostly don’t care or are into it.

I am kind of like a comic artist and I’ve done conventions with where my art (which generally has pretty tastefully dressed and proportioned women) is completely ignored because I sat next to a guy who drew porn comics and had prints of art that makes those Emma Frost images you showed up there look really tame. I’m talking about like naked Catwoman and Black Canary licking each others breasts while Batman watches on a security camera. Because what else would batman be doing?

Anyways, I don’t think comic artists are going to stop. I think Emma Frost is generally going to be pervishly drawn and you and everyone else will probably keep buying it so… this is all an exercise in futility. But it’s at least positive and optimistically defiant against the tasteless trends of the mainstream. Unlike my comment. Damn me. I’m legitimately going to go back to drawing an Emma Frost commission.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:38:26 +0000

I can see how that last one could be considered ‘artistic’ but the first two are just awkwardly drawn… I mean, look at how lumpy her (supposed to be) voluptuous tuchus is! It is awkward. I could go on but the more I thought about it, the more creepy and awkward I felt… =^/

By: Sharp-O

Sharp-O — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:31:35 +0000

Yup, I get a little self-conscious about that crap and being a heavy gentleman does not help matters.

That said, I did have a similar Greg Horn drawn Emma Frost poaster in my early teens.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:23:10 +0000

I could not agree more with this. So freaking true.