NorgLyle posted:I feel like this is a trap sprung waiting to happen. Knowing the difference between two awesome campy zombie game series isn't much of a trap sprung.
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A Tin Of Beans posted:I'm really digging on that Red Sonja. Ahem: Dear Mr Asynchronous Glob, Here is an example as you asked for, of a lady-type-person who is being made more likely to buy Dynamite Comics' products because of these changes. Thank you, your friend, Gaz-L. (Also A Tin Of Beans? You should totally read Simone's run on Red Sonja. She doesn't wear the bikini for half of it anyway, and the second arc in particular is a great 'assembling the crew' narrative which allows for great little done-in-one stories that tie together at the end. )
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Oct 7, 2015 01:37
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I'm glad they swapped out the chainmail bikini for the chainmail ... whatever-it-is there with the sideboob and all. I get that chainmail bikinis are a pulp staple/cliche, but boy howdy is it nice seeing something that manages to bring variety and remain good looking. The cape feels weather-appropriate but can still be thrown back to show off all the skin the chainmail doesn't cover. It all seems pretty functional and believable without sacrificing looks, at least in my opinion. I guess maybe it'll be too un-sexy for some readers, but ... that's stupid. Outfit's still plenty revealing, just feels a lot more like she could actually survive outdoors. The redesign is honestly making me think I should get off my rear end and read some drat Red Sonja finally.
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Yeah, playing Resident Evil is apparently the key to the Vamperlla redesign becoming generic looking for you. I'd still put it as the lowest effort of them.
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Oct 7, 2015 05:54
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That Vampirella costume is real bad imo. I dunno who Vampirella is and the costume isn't communicating information that helps me understand who she is and what she does in the way that Red Sonja's does (she's a barbarian!), and communicating information about a character to the audience is literally the #1 job of a character design. Like, it's some kind of gothy, schoolgirl-y exercise wear, maybe, With some weapons sorta strapped to it and logo on the back. Her weird little jumpsuit thing is overdesigned and also doesn't really correlate with any real world clothing apart from maybe like, rock climbing clothes or something? I guess with different shoes she'd look like a vampire rock climber.
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Oct 7, 2015 08:55
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Red Bones posted:the costume isn't communicating information that helps me understand who she is and what she does How could you ever try communicating more than this costume does? 
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Oct 7, 2015 08:59
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I'm gonna get super real for a minute. That costume perfectly communicates what the character is and her purpose and we all know it.
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Oct 7, 2015 10:21
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SirDan3k posted:I'm gonna get super real for a minute. Yeah her original design is a very good design because it fulfills the brief of "vampire pinup girl"perfectly. Like, in design terms, it's working perfectly as intended.
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Oct 7, 2015 12:15
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SirDan3k posted:I'm gonna get super real for a minute. I'm just looking at those shoes like  She will never be able to walk flat footed again. Very tragic. 
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Oct 7, 2015 12:59
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Red Bones posted:Yeah her original design is a very good design because it fulfills the brief of "vampire pinup girl"perfectly. Like, in design terms, it's working perfectly as intended. For all I know, there could be a long stretch of Vampirella that was written by Alan Moore and is pure genius, but all I know about her is what I get from seeing covers and posters and dolls in comic-book shops: vampire pinup girl.
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Oct 7, 2015 13:01
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Teenage Fansub posted:How could you ever try communicating more than this costume does? Somewhere, Frank Cho is furiously scribbling pornos to piss off SJWs.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:31
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Interestingly, the original Vampirella design was done by a woman - Trina Robbins, which probably explains that, as skimpy as it is, it's the rare case of a comic book pin-up outfit that looks like it might actually be a real (albeit hugely impractical for anything but sexin') garment.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:40
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I kinda like the Red Sonja one. To me it looks like less of a redesign and more of an evolution (like the Tim Drake Robin costume which had pants instead of the shorts). I look that costume and still see Red Sonja. As for the Vampirella one, I've never really been invested in the character so all I can say is that while I recognize that her classic outfit is just that, classic, and could be considered part of the character (think Black Canary's fishnets) I do like the new design. Gaz-L posted:Interestingly, the original Vampirella design was done by a woman - Trina Robbins, which probably explains that, as skimpy as it is, it's the rare case of a comic book pin-up outfit that looks like it might actually be a real (albeit hugely impractical for anything but sexin') garment. This actually reminds me of when I was a kid a summer camp and my parents sent me a bunch of comics and magazines. One of them, Flux, one of those short lived gaming magazines that seemed to be everywhere in the mid 90's, had a full page photo of a Vampirella model. Needless to say that page was very popular with my fellow campers.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:03
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Spider-Girl got a new costume! It seems to have been based upon this concept Frenz did a while back:  Which has a bit too much red in it. But the final version seems much better:  I like it. It seems to be a nice middle ground between her original/Ben Reilly costume and the Peter Parker one.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:18
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zoux posted:Somewhere, Frank Cho is furiously scribbling pornos to piss off SJWs. He hasn't slowed down at all with those.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:39
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You know, have the pit webs on the various Spiderman costumes ever had a function?
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Oct 7, 2015 17:41
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zoux posted:You know, have the pit webs on the various Spiderman costumes ever had a function? They keep the costume from being sweaty.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:41
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zoux posted:You know, have the pit webs on the various Spiderman costumes ever had a function? http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21172/what-are-the-webs-under-spideys-arms-for
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Oct 7, 2015 17:45
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I really want him to use web skis more.
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Oct 7, 2015 19:13
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I coulda sworn there was an early Spider-Man comic that said he used the web arm-pits to glide (though he also never actually used them to glide) and they were detachable.
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Oct 7, 2015 19:23
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Skwirl posted:I coulda sworn there was an early Spider-Man comic that said he used the web arm-pits to glide (though he also never actually used them to glide) and they were detachable. And I coulda sworn he did in the old cartoon show. I somehow recall him squirting webs under his arms.
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Oct 7, 2015 21:08
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Skwirl posted:I coulda sworn there was an early Spider-Man comic that said he used the web arm-pits to glide (though he also never actually used them to glide) and they were detachable. The article says that about Spider-Woman, maybe you're thinking about her?
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Oct 8, 2015 03:39
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I could just about swear the glide thing was the line for Spidey as well though. Maybe in one of the Encyclopedias.
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Oct 8, 2015 10:55
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The Iron Spider suit used them for gliding, I think.
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Oct 9, 2015 04:32
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Everything I know about Vampirella comes from my dad's collection. 
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Oct 9, 2015 04:37
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That Red Sonja costume is cool; it makes sense for the character and you can still recognize her at a glance. That Dejah Thoris costume looks really trendy and goofy to me, and i think it would be better if they looked to real world cultures where nudity for both sexes is casual and non-sexual (like the original idea from the books, right? Those books are old enough to be genuinely strange and paring out the cool things about them to appeal to modern sensibilities is a mistake i think). turning that spotlight on the body back against the male gaze strikes me as way more radical than replacing cheesecake costumes with everyone looking like a cop at the gym. Bye
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Oct 9, 2015 05:26
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Yvonmukluk posted:Spider-Girl got a new costume! Huh, Jess finally loses her costume that Rocket Racoon pointed out, basically, points down to her lady biz. Then a similar theme shows up on Spider Girl. With the red arrow, the negative space in the blue, and the arches of red resting on her hip bones.
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Oct 9, 2015 10:12
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PicklePants posted:Huh, Jess finally loses her costume that Rocket Racoon pointed out, basically, points down to her lady biz.   Which also has the same pointing at the crotch issue. I doubt that it meant to be interpreted as 'HEY LOOK DOWN HERE', more that it's a combination of the Ben Reilly & Peter Parker costumes. I honestly didn't notice till you pointed it out.
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I'm sorry, I shouldn't have, uh, heavily, implied it was done intentionally. That was me being a jerk. Compared to the Ben Riley costume, the break up of the torso piece to the belt shapes, added an unintentional extra negative shape.
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Skwirl posted:I coulda sworn there was an early Spider-Man comic that said he used the web arm-pits to glide (though he also never actually used them to glide) and they were detachable. I know Gwen tries it. It doesn't really work. 
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PicklePants posted:Huh, Jess finally loses her costume that Rocket Racoon pointed out, basically, points down to her lady biz. Who's Jess?
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Oct 9, 2015 22:59
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Jessica Drew. Spider Woman.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:10
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Spider-Woman.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:11
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That's Spider-girl, though? Mayday Parker? Why are we talking about Spider-woman?
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Oct 9, 2015 23:26
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Lurdiak have a coffee.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:31
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Picklepants was comparing spidergirl's new costume to a costume that spiderwoman just switched out for a new one.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:32
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Oh I get it. I guess I misread that post.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:33
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Happy Hippo posted:The article says that about Spider-Woman, maybe you're thinking about her? No, the only solo stuff I've read with her was that short one after Civil war. I have a distinct memory of one of those splash pages old comics would have explaining hero's various powers and gadgets, probably either from the Ditko or Romita Sr eras. I have the first two or three volumes of Essential Amazing somewhere, if I find it I'll let you know.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:36
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To complicate matters, Mayday is actually Spider-Woman now.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:27
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If Mayday is Spider-Woman now, who is Jessica Drew?
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No, Who's on first!
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