Welp this was a bad comic. It started off okay, and as soon as Starfire showed up it got really bad, really fast (look she’s uncaring about earth people and promiscuous whoo.) And in fact, the bad started just before she showed up.
This annoys me way more than it probably should but oh my god, it’s so annoying. Kenneth Rocafort on art is entirely as expected, Starfire has a stupid costume, that doesn’t make any sense we all knew that was coming. The power effects and the hair are nice, none of this is the real issue here. The big problem is Scott Lobdell has no idea how bra sizes work. The 38 refers to the band size on a woman, which is the measurement of the ribcage under the boobs. Not the enormous boobs themselves. A 38 is one of the larger sizes most stores carry, and Starfire does not look like she has a broad ribcage. Quite the opposite really, it’s tiny and bony. Lobdell was looking for cup sizes. An A cup is small, a D cup is large, Starfire is way farther into the alphabet than that. If you are making a ‘her boobs are huge’ joke, you use letters. If you are making a ‘her ribcage is huge’ joke you are a strange writer and would use numbers.
Seriously, how did nobody notice that?
has anyone in this company ever met a woman?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9TXVMkQ29g&t=2m for the reference)
HURRHURRHURR 38s
So lazy, so eye-rollable.
Oh, man. It’s worse because bra jokes are ALWAYS about cup-sizes. I mean, it’s not like Scott Lobdell has never heard a boob joke before, and it’s definitely the case that he has NEVER heard a joke made about band size.
yall just mad cause you fanboys never touched a pair of real 38s. quit hatin son.
got a pair of 42 g right here. WHAT NOW SON?
pics or it didnt happen, SON
I will admit, as a heterosexual woman not in possession of a 38 band size I have not touched a pair. But I do know that using band size to refer to how big someone’s boobs are is like using the waist measurement on someone’s pants to determine if they’re tall or not.
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo were gonna slag a decent comic writer over a boob joke? really? really? REALLY? we all got it was a boob joke, now lets move on.
or better yet, yall can write red hood and the outlaws.
theres other things to gripe about in the comic industry than a boob joke. gawd
@shaun reilly: okay, i lol’ed at your reply to me. but you lost it all when you called scott lobdell a decent writer. he isn’t. at all. the boob joke is just one example of really, really bad writing.
since you seem to not get it, here is the point. (NSFW PICS)
38a boobs: http://www.007b.info/b/breasts/o/38A-pam-pg.jpg
38dd boobs: http://www.007b.info/b/breasts/o/38-DD.jpg
both are a “pair of 38s” but obviously they are not the same size boobs. that is why the joke makes no sense.
daw man I thought I approved this back when you made it! whoops
so you lot have nothing better to do but slag a “bad writer?” really? really? i got the joke. then again i have my head in the gutter. hes catering to the male populace out there. if you want a more “girl friendly comic,” i highly recommend the slew of manga out there, strangers in paradise and anything by craig thompson. i dont think you ladies are ready for super hero comics. though if you want, you can start with fathom, though im sure youll complain about the way the late great michael turner draws women.
id look at the loverly breasts youve shoved in my face, but im at work right now. but thank you 🙂
apparently you read this article and thought it was a how-to for trolling blogs where women talk about comics: http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/10998312865/10things
The first (tiny and really fairly civil) fight in my comics section! I feel like a real blogger now! And that is a hilariously accurate link chickwithmonkey, goddamn.
And besides, I really like griping about lame jokes that don’t even make sense if you have more than a passing familiarity with the subject! It’s fun!
isn’t that link amazing? please don’t feel obligated to keep approving comments if you’re bored – this is your house and i won’t get salty if you shut me down! i love this blog and i’m having fun here!
me having an opinion= trolling? really? i mean, if you want full on troll mode id be more than happy to oblige. i reckon you should get back on to deviant art with comments like that considering im using my FACEBOOK to log in. where as youre using a screen name lassie with a monkey. whats the age old saying? come at me bro?
oh, bro. i sure can keep going. you’re a troll because you’re coming on to a blog to disagree with the point of the blog AND because you’re mansplaining to women who are discussing a specific woman-centered item. your opinion is that our opinions don’t count (e.g. telling us to go read manga or write the book ourselves if we don’t like it) and thus we aren’t allowed to point out that this was a stupid joke. ad hominem attacks are the lowest form of debate – the fact that i use a screenname doesn’t invalidate my opinion either. aesolenna probably does have better things to do than keep talking to you, which is why she’s wisely left it alone. lucky for you, i don’t. 🙂
Haha, honestly I’m pretty forgiving a lot of the time (and am happy whenever I get the ‘new email’ icon on my phone yay!) If this is the first time he’s really had feminist issues in comics brought to light and has never really thought about any of this before, he probably doesn’t know the stuff he’s been saying has been said before so many times that anyone who is involved in this community and with these issues is painfully sick of what he’s saying.
But yeah, Shaun man, when you start with ‘haha you just never touched boobs’ and once corrected on gender move on ‘don’t you have other things to do’ and ‘women can’t deal with capes and should go read manga’ instead of trying to understand why this stupid flop of a joke got under our skin so badly it doesn’t really look good on your part.
I 110% wish I could think of a good link to a quick primer on feminist issues in comics and why we care so much about what seems like minor stuff like this. But of course, I can’t.
fine then. lets trolololololo away.
1) youre now pandering to the endless nerds out there by reading comics and then getting offended. news flash: most comics are written for MEN.
2) for MEN!!
ill be honest, i thought a lonely fanboy wrote this so i jumped the gun without doing my research. so yea, my bad bros. my intention was trolling until yall said you were of the lady sort.
no seriously, manga seems right up your alley. i watch some pretty girly tv shows once in a while, sporting tampon ads. i dont start up blogs to complain about you all paying the bills once a month. do you lot really need a bloody commercial?
you dont like scott lobdell, quit reading his work. i think fabian nexzicia or however you spell his name is a tool, so i dont read his work. i think alan moore is a loon, so i stopped reading his work. i think brian michal bendis is a coward, so i dont read his work. i think jim steranko has an ego the size of the sun, so i dont bother with him. see where this is going? im not gonna blog about it. i mean if you wanna complain then fine, but dont be surprised if some muppet like me shows up with something to say. and with that, thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings. 🙂
tl;dr
tooshy. i leave you with this: im currently on lunch and i see no sandwich. get to making. nao. schnell.
or for moar fun we can take this to facebook and not clutter up this blog, though i dont agree with it, it is well written. ;D