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suchabadpenny:

flannelanimal:

Amanda Waller, a full-figured character (one of the few in comics) in the DC Universe got a unnecessary makeover today in the DC reboot.  Photo courtesy of ComicAlliance.com

All I’m going to say is this:  If you’re a professional comics artist (i.e. someone is paying you money to draw pictures) and you’re not using that as an opportunity to include underrepresented people in comics today, you’re a complete waste of time.  This is just one example of a big issue of depicting women or other minorities in comics.  If you’re a comic artist and you’re depicting every female character in every comic book you draw as an over-the-top, big breasted, porn-star faced, tiny waisted woman, all you’re doing is perpetuating a terrible, unhealthy image of what a woman is.  The saddest part is, it’s totally fixable, too.  All it would take is a handful of artists to stop being lazy and actually refuse to draw women the way a 12-year-old boy would.  It’s not like the fashion industry, where it would take years for normal-sized women or even plus-sized women to become the norm.  Mainstream comics publishers wonder why people aren’t reading comics anymore.  It’s because they’re full of juvenile storytelling like this.  

I’d like to add that I agree with a lot of you, too, that it’s really about over-sexualizing characters when that has nothing to do with the story.  A character’s size is just one aspect, but the root problem is a bunch of artists/editors wanting their own masturbation material over telling a good story.

Yes, god forbid an artist wants to draw people in the kind of style they want, or are getting told to do and paid for.

WGAF. Its comics, motherfucker. Funny books. SHIT AIN’T REAL

Because it’s just one more area of media where women are told that if they’re not thin supermodels (not to mention cisgendered and, usually, white) that they are of NO interest. None. And in these creeps’ fantasies, just plain don’t exist. In fact, comics are one of the worst offenders in this area. You can portray an INCLUSIVE fantasy world. It is possible. And with the comics industry losing so much sales, you’d think they’d be willing to try a new way.