Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Heroes For Hire #13 is intended for nine year olds
When I first read about the cover illustration for HEROES FOR HIRE #13, I thought it was creepy, excessive, and overly sexualized. Especially considering that it’s rated T+. What’ that mean? This is from the Marvel Comics website:
9+ years old Appropriate for most readers, parents are advised they may want to read before or with younger children.
I wouldn’t expect to find a comic book meant for nine year old children to feature an illustration of scantly clad women chained to a stone pillar while a tentacle creature gropes them.
At first, I didn’t spend too much time studying it. It’s way too pervy for my taste. I then read this post over at Written World. Sure enough, the cover is even worse then I originally thought.
What is that white goo dripping on the bare breasts of the woman on the cover of a Marvel Comics funny book intended for nine year olds?
That question is of course only rhetorical. I don’t really want to know what that white goo is supposed to be. Believe me, I really don’t want to know. What I would like to know is how something like this gets the OK at the House Of Ideas. That is what they used to call Marvel Comics, right? The House of Ideas?
I remember when comic books couldn’t even show red blood. They colored it to look brownish. It looked sort of like something else. Something that was not blood. Now they are showing white goo on the breasts of women. Women who are chained to a stone pillar. Women being molested by a tentacle creature.
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I think that stuff all over her rack is just slime from the testicles- TENTACLES. Sorry.
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Not to split hairs, but that fluid doesn’t look white to me at all. I see tentacles….but any rape happening in that image is strictly in the eye of the beholder.
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Agree