{"id":32998,"date":"2013-04-02T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/showing-a-bit-less-skin.html"},"modified":"2013-04-02T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:49:50","slug":"showing-a-bit-less-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/showing-a-bit-less-skin.html","title":{"rendered":"Showing a bit less skin"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, to be fair, I like a bit of cheesecake as much as the next heterosexual male comic book fan, but as I've posted before, when it looks like a superheroine is constantly on the way home from a bad SI swimsuit issue shoot, something's wrong.<\/p>\n

(As +<\/span>Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span>\u00a0will also tell you, when I was designing female characters on City of Heroes, they almost always (to the point of being ribbed about it) were fully clothed, armored, dressed. Unless flashing skin was intentionally part of their MO.)<\/p>\n

For the record, as much as I like (some) of the canonical more exposed costumes for these superheroines, I would have no trouble with any of the attached being the norm — even if they're not only not showing a lot of skin, but much of the costuming\u00a0isn't painted-on spandex.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Angela Craft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

LOOK AT ALL THE CLOTHES THEY'RE WEARING<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing the impossible? Fully dressed Superheroines<\/a>
\n Artist Michael Lee Lunsford stresses that the goal of his redesign project is not to push some sort of moral code on to you. He says it’s an exercise in ch\n <\/p>\n

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Okay, to be fair, I like a bit of cheesecake as much as the next heterosexual male comic book fan, but as I've posted before, when it looks like a superheroine is constantly on the way home from a bad SI swimsuit issue shoot, something's wrong. 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