I’ve been thinking about the tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips link (while working on a longer piece on Cleavage in TV (to follow)), and the Supergirl collection that was tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips and that comics are generally written by males for a male audience, and a teen male audience at that, and that, like prOn, there needs to be a man in the sex scene but men don’t want the sex scenes to focus on the man (gay!), comics have male heroes but if they were all ass ‘n’ pouty lips it wouldn’t work for the teen male audience (gay!) who like the eye candy the tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips girls provide because they are not identifying with the females they are identifying with the males, and to have the male character/superhero be all the tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips would jar them out of their fantasy (gay!) , and that therefore to read a comic as a female must be annoying^* because like, say, an Englishman reading a comic written for Mexicans about Mexicans with the odd clichéd Englishman the Englishman would stand out as clichéd and annoying (especially if they were the tits n ass n pouty lips (and gay (gay!)), but yet there are intelligent comics written by males with female characters, and Superhero comics written by women, so..?

And that I found Superdog annoying in Batman (Hush), and it jarred me out of my fanatasy (don’t go there, not a point I’m trying to make).

Superdog...

…and that I really wasn’t quite sure where I was going with this, but would a picture of Charlie Dimmock be justified to make some sort of point about how Batman may not be tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips in Hush while Poison Ivy (see above) obviously is, there is a real world example in how Allan Titmarsh (not pictured) wasn’t tits ‘n’ ass ‘n’ pouty lips on the Gardening program and yet Charlie Dimmock was? And then, when searching for an appropriate picture of Charlie Dimmock which I found, I noticed the url of the site with the picture was bapwatch.com and I gave up.

^* A “Bechdel Test” for comics?

See also: Female Friendships: Image Not Found?

“I like to read comics about girl friendships. I’ll admit that as a blanket statement that sounds both absurd and really broad, but it’s the truth. I like to see my favourite female characters, hanging out, being friends or colleagues and pretty much having a good time.”

See also: For The Good Of Fandom - Comic covers that objectify male super-hero underwear perverts

Frank Miller vs Male Equivelent?

See also: Catwoman Porn?