In the well-regarded Justice League Unlimited animated series, her top is white, which I think is a bold idea (breaking with Superman's colors), and looks good on her.
Powergirl and Supergirl.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Supergirl
Supergirl as Superman's cousin was killed off in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" storyline by DC in the eighties. Since then there clearly was hot-young-supergirl shaped hole in the readers' mind, for she appeared in various forms over the years, including an android. But now she's back to being Kryptonian and Superman's cousin. But it does not seem she has the Linda Lee Danvers secret identity of old days. A pity. On the other hand, she's not averse to showing her tight midriff, a definite plus.
In the well-regarded Justice League Unlimited animated series, her top is white, which I think is a bold idea (breaking with Superman's colors), and looks good on her.
In the well-regarded Justice League Unlimited animated series, her top is white, which I think is a bold idea (breaking with Superman's colors), and looks good on her.
I would like to see a uniform that isn't just a skimpy, cheerleader- and Catholic schoolgirl-inspired version of Superman's uniform. Supergirl would probably work best as a Japanese comic though. ;-)
ReplyDelete"I would like to see a uniform that isn't just a skimpy, cheerleader- and Catholic schoolgirl-inspired version of Superman's uniform."
ReplyDeleteI really don't see what other choices there are, artistically, aesthetically, morally, and culturally. :-)
Well, clearly you have no imagination. That's bad for someone who fancies themself an artist.
ReplyDeleteWell, Dave, it was mostly a joke. It was another way of saying: well, if you want her associated with Superman, and you want her sexy, that's what you do.
ReplyDeleteLater in the series (near the end) she changes her costume to appear more like Superman's out of admiration to him. Green Arrow tells him "She did it to show her admiration for you and you treat her just like another cape".
ReplyDeleteSupes is afraid that living under his shadow is overwhelming, but actually she likes it and is proud of it. He's proud of her too, but he doesn't manage to tell her. Supes tells GA "You tell her" and Ollie replies "Nah, that sounds like a job for Superman".
The white had to go to differentiate her from her actual clone Power Girl, IMHO.
Not a big deal, since ( SPOILER WARNING -- DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE WATCHING THE SERIES)
she then falls in love with Brainiac 5 (an organic legacy of the original Brainiac) during a time travelling adventure and remains in the future with him.
LOL! Hey, I remember READING that very comic page.
ReplyDeleteI think that's "Clark" interrupting her, mercifully back from his assignment "in the nip, uh nick of tuck... of time"!
Dave,
Already been done. It's called Sailor Moon.
And, although at that moment they are only visible as shiny silhouettes, when the Sailors "tansform" into their hero uniforms, they're completely naked!
Which I think they censored in the U.S. translated version. Gee, that's unexpected!
"artistically, aesthetically, morally, and culturally"
EXACTLY, by Allah! Thou hast said! (Matthew 26: 64)
"Well, clearly you have no imagination."
The fact of the mater is, Dave, that Eolake has A LOT of imagination... it's just exclusively oriented towards NAKED women! (^_^)
I hope this explains his unusual weakness in that particular domain.
"The white had to go to differentiate her from her actual clone Power Girl, IMHO."
Yeah, Miss "please fill my hole, Superman"! ROTFWL!!!
BTW, of course you meant "clone" figuratively. I heard she's a kryptonian that came from a parallel dimension. And her own, confident, liberated girl, by Rao!
I am not aware of Powergirl's origin, but I don't see how one could confuse her with Supergirl, they look totally different.
ReplyDeleteWell, Dave, it was mostly a joke.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know. Mine was kind of half-joking because it seems like these guys who are supposed to be professionals can't come up with something original that's also still sexy. I couldn't either, but I'm not a professional comic book illustrator.
Power Girl's got a ridiculously big rack. Those are definitely implants.
To be fair, it'd be hard to make something new that wouldn't go overboard on weirdness. I could come up with ideas, but there'd be a certain, "Why the hell would anyone wear that?" factor.
ReplyDeleteThen again, we are talking about superheroines. Why would someone wear a short skirt if she's gonna be doing a lot of flying? :P
To make for good press photos!!
ReplyDeleteFor me, I'd go with just a thong and a logo tatoo'ed on the chest.
To make for good press photos!!
ReplyDeleteBritney Spears couldn't get away with it, but maybe Supergirl could! ;-)
For me, I'd go with just a thong and a logo tatoo'ed on the chest.
Why bother with the thong? Someone with a bod like that has no need for modesty. :)
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ReplyDeleteApologies for the poor proofreading: a Google glitch prematurely posted my text when I pressed the "Preview" button. ):-P
ReplyDelete"Someone with a bod like that has no need for modesty. :)"
ReplyDeleteYeah, and it's not like she'd have to worry about getting groped on the streets. After a few jerks get a super-powered slap on the back of their hands, all the Douraks would start cautiously respecting her.
I find it curious, that all non-humanoid aliens go naked: no armor, no space suits, no nothing! But as soon as they start resembling us too much, they become vulnerable to the most fearsome Kryptonite-like evil super-power of the Cosmos: moralist pressure groups!
About two years ago, Marvel and DC comics started getting published in the Middle East, in a regional edition translated in Arabic. I read an issue where Spider-Man faces a challenge in the Dream Realm, and meets a trap consisting of a false Mary-Jane. But something was off in that scene... and not only because I *expected* a trap beforehand. Then I noticed: there were some weird plain textureless areas in a mismatched tone ADDED to MJ's already very proper nightgown. To be allowed in all the arabic countries, they had photoshopped [or corrector fluid-ed?] more white to cover her embryonic cleavage all the way to the base of her neck, and similarly "covered" her body mid-arm and to below the knees. I think they also censored her bare feet.
By Allah's unflinching fist of Mercy, these drawn stories from the Great Satan are stuffed with pornography!
Most of what is still published is either the "monsters" stuff, of the adaptations of animated series, where even Power Gal is almost flat-chested and "entirely covered in the front".
If I could find my [currently stashed for lack of space] old issues of the B&W Superman comic, from 30 years ago, I'd blog one such silly example every week!
Such as that scene where "Soobermaan the Mighty" saves Jimmy Olsen from a falling flagpole... bearing a crudely redrawn LEBANESE FLAG!!!
And that story where an amnesiac plane-crashed Lois Lane in Africa becomes the leopard-skin-clad Queen of the Jungle? Priceless! At first, I thought her wearing ugly long briefs and teeshirt-like sleeves was just poor fasion sense...
A french weekly comic (Spirou®) published some 10 years ago a parodic series named "Cosmic Patrouille". There was Super-Marcel with his Elvis hairdo, gut-bellied Bat-Guy, six-armed Arachnid-Man... and an unnamed Silver Surfer whose original nudity now wore a ridiculous Hawaiian flowered pair of shorts, dude! ROTFL!
I was always amazed that the nude Surfer was so tolerated for publication in an acutely prude period...
It's different when it is not skin, it seems. Have you seen Frisky Dingo? The supervillain Killface has a face which looks like a skull sorta, all white, nude body, and an odd bulb where his dong would be. At one point they even made fun of it.
ReplyDelete"where even Power Gal is almost flat-chested and "entirely covered in the front"."
ReplyDeleteNow that's my idea of blasphemy.
It does seem to destroy her primary feature. Heck, I don't even know what her superpowers are, except she is probably tough and strong.
ReplyDeleteFrisky Dingo... I've got to watch me this!
ReplyDeleteBut for some unexplained reason, my bookstore is unable to even order me Lost Girls. And it seems it's NOT a national censorship issue. ):-(
"Heck, I don't even know what her superpowers are, except she is probably tough and strong."
Well, her #1 superpower IS her super-distracting-bazookas, which have all male villains catastrophically distracted.
Oh yeah, and on a side note, she's a Kryptonian from a parallel universe, so she also enjoys all of Superman/Supergirl's classic powers. But she doesn't really need to, right? :-P
"To make for good press photos!!
For me, I'd go with just a thong and a logo tatoo'ed on the chest."
Puh-leeze! You forgot the golden rule here: upskirts will keep the public riveted for years. But show them full-frontal, and if to add insult to injury you seem to have CONSENTED to being photographed (unlike, say, Janet Jackson), pretty soon they'll feel they don't have anything MORE to look after as far as YOU're concerned.
So... flying in a skirt = great press. Just a thong and a chest tattoo = only thugs you come to arrest will always notice you, but the tabloid press will forget you completely in a matter of two weeks, tops.
A lightbulb, you say? Then how come my verif insists on "bignowb"?!?
ReplyDeleteGood points. I always forget what world I live in.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should get a USA remailing service, like MyUS.com. I like them.