But from time to time, your favorite superheroes have been known to don far less than even that leotard. While many designs as of late have opted for more realistic designs and proportions, including armored uniforms and more functional costumes. Obviously, not all of these are by choice, and some are the result of circumstances beyond control such as battle damage or imprisonment. Regardless, these characters let it all hang out, for better or for worse. We only had one rule for this, and that was no comics of an adult nature; that would be cheating, after all.
DC Comics has more censored and less suggestive scenes than their adult Vertigo line, but that doesn't mean there aren't some graphic, suggestive DC scenes sprinkled throughout their publishing history. The sexual tension among heroes, and among villains, even between heroes and villains, builds to some of the most detailed love scenes in DC comics. Many superheroes knocked boots in some hot, heavy DC scenes, leaving nothing to the imagination. Even though most DC comics are written for a mainstream audience, many scenes can still get the job done despite strategic censorship. This isn't the typical "post-coital with bed sheets covering their private parts" panels in comics from that era. While there have been depictions of Talia Al' Ghul and her "beloved" Bruce Wayne making love in the past, none showed this much skin.
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I'm going to grant that they may have a point in a general 'how women are portrayed in comics' sense. But, my complaint is with the characters they seem to be crying out over. The three big ones seem to be Catwoman, Starfire and Wonder Woman. Now, given that I haven't read either 'Catwoman' or 'Red Hood and the Outlaws' whoever they are , my comments will be generally about the characters themselves. Firstly, Catwoman.
DC Comics has been having a bad week. Yesterday, two members of the Batwoman editorial team quit after their publishers refused to allow Batwoman who is a lesbian character to marry her partner. And now the comic company has provoked even more outrage by hosting a contest in which they readers to draw Harley Quinn, a popular villain, preparing to commit suicide. The trope of sensationalized female character deaths has long haunted the medium, as has a terrible tendency to oversexualize and objectify women characters; it's almost surprising that it's taken DC this long to combine the two into a vile heap of casual sexism — because female suicide is so fascinating and compelling and cool , right, guys?