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In reply to the discussion: Marvel features spider woman's ass on cover of issue #1 [View all]Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)Every artist approaches every character differently with their own style. Both in how the costume looks on them and how they move.
With a character like Spider-man, some make it more "spidery" with how he moves. Others make it more athletic. Same with Batman. Some go for more skulking in the shadows while others have him out in full force doing the action thing.
There are so many interpretations of a lot of characters that you can't nail it down, especially as art styles grow and change over the decades. Spider-man of today is not illustrated as he was in the 60's when he debuted, the 80's or the McFarlane style of the 90's.
Hell, the fact comics survived the 90's is amazing considering what an icon Rob Liefeld was as an artist (more of a marketer really of his work).
I mean, look at the body designs he used: http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/4/21/2960508/worst-rob-liefeld-drawings
Those books sold hundreds and hundreds of thousands of copies. The Manara cover we're talking about here is a collector's item for probably 2000 at most.
I'm just glad there isn't a "house style" that artists have to adhere to and we constantly get reinventions and new explorations of characters and designs that change with the times. And while we're seeing the discussion about the cover, it's unfortunate that it's overshadowing the eight or so other female solo books that have come out in the last year that also have Manara covers but also have some fantastic stories within that's showing the changes Marvel has been making to appeal to a wider and more diverse audience looking for more than what the books offered for decades.
Here's a hilarious piece of both characters by Humberto Ramos:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U8OvJwRiLsA/T7BWcJEXObI/AAAAAAAACWQ/sYpt57OFK0k/s1600/2012-05-09+12.26.48.jpg