Now Marvel is really falling into the Abyss with this mainstream cover that is not appropriate outside of the pages of Heavy Metal. This isn't an adult book or anything like that but a mainstream book that will be right on the shelves if front of everything. Here we again have an on-the-shelf Marvel product showing women bound and about to be violated by tentacles in what I guess is the new "Merry Marvel Tradition."
The really bad thing about this is that Heroes for Hire is another almost totally female book that might have gone right after this neglected demographic that makes up half of the human race. It could have been just like a Birds of Prey for Marvel but instead it panders to the same repressed nerd, power-fantasy demographic that I guess is buying that Mary Jane statue.
Oh well, I guess this new Marvel is just totally bankrupt when it comes to depicting women with any sort of respect. It seems to Marvel that women are just a bunch of body parts that live only to bow down before their Marvel Zombie masters. It is too bad because I used to read almost 85% Marvel in the 90s. However, I won't be sending any more of my comics dollars their way until they clean their managerial house.
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Since I know virtually nothing about comics, but a great deal about demographic niche marketing and have been a proud front line feminist since 1973; I feel that this cover is no worse than things in a gangsta rap video...and women consume those a gross numbers. Chris Rock said it best is his stand-up routine..." from the window to the walls, til the sweat runs down my ..." but he ain't talkin' 'bout ME! Women's ability to delude themselves in present day times is a wonder to this middle aged woman who fought for equal pay, to open her own doors, who paid her own bar tab...and now sees her kids consume imagery like this without a backward glance...good for you to raise the alarm bell...perhaps ladies ought to think before they use their most powerful weapon...$$$ !!!
CHR
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