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In reply to the discussion: I'm done, too. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I had to sit back and think about it from a female perspective before I could see why I was supposed to think it was a 'sexy' pose. I think the thread wound up being a lot of people talking past each other, rather than any sort of useful lesson for anyone. But I also think it's simply going to change over time on its own, now that more females are working in the comic book industry. People who have direct input are going to make stylistic changes, and, tbh, I still don't think most comic readers will care about those changes in pose or costume being made. As others noted, the average comic reader of today is not the reader of 20 years ago, and anyone who wants 'porn' can simply grab plenty of it straight out. So changes can be made, and readers won't actually care that they are, because they're not reading comics to look at drawings of poorly-clad women in contorted poses.