Reaction 1: "Wow, there's only two guys there."
Reaction 2: "Look how much clothes they're wearing"
Dear DC. Really, look at this, and look at those two more or less sequential reactions from me, who reads several of your books each week.
1. I'd like more female superheroes, please.
2. I'd like them to wear clothes.
I like a bit of cheesecake as much as the next red-blooded heterosexual guy, but DC women, on a whole, show an excessive and unrealistic amount of skin. compare Superman and Supergirl (or Power Girl for that matter). Batgirl and Batwoman are fully clothed, but BatFamily Huntress often isn't (and Catwoman … see earlier comments). Not a lot of female speedsters, but Jesse Quick was wearing full pants for a long time, until someone decided she should run in short-shorts instead. There are plenty of fully clothed female Green Lanterns — and plenty of nigh-nekkid female ones (very few nigh-nekkid male ones, unless they're meant to be showing off their roid-rage hypermasculinity).
Of the ones below, the Martian Manhuntress is the most reasonable — because, until recently, Martian Manhunter was mostly barechested, too.
Believe me, I've designed a lot of pretty cool female superheroes in City of Heroes — and very few of them are bearing a lot of skin.
(This applies to Marvel, too, but, oddly, not as much.) #ddtb
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Gender-bent Justice League gets a comic book look
Inspired by the Gender Bent Justice League cosplayers at last year's San Diego Comic-Con, artist Yasmin Liang decided to create a comic book-style illustration of the gender-flipped superheroes.
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