Short Round Up: That Playboy cover
Short comment on the that Playboy cover featuring someone painted into a bad imitation of a Wonder Woman costume
- It’s a bad imitation. That’s not Wonder Woman, that’s a celebrity in bodypaint. Accessorize people, Accessorize! Lasso! Wrist band! INVISIBLE SANDWICH! err INDIVISIBLE JET!
- Playboy rips off Frank Miller’s cover quite a bit there, doesn’t it?
- Anybody got a definitive answer to question of whether DC authorised/licenced the use of their copyright materials for the cover? I can’t imagine that Playbo’s lawyers would have cleared publishing a pretty blatant legal liability from Warner Bros.
- If you want to see a disconnect between superheroic fantasy and mundane reality, look at the cover of the playbody. This is the “costume” that we’re so mundanely used to seeing on hand drawn characters, it looks bloody stupid on a real person. OMG My costume is painted on yay!
- As far as anything akin to sex appeal - I keep laughing at the cover, largely because I can’t stop rewriting it as an alternate universe PETA campaign “I’d rather fight crime naked than wear spandex!”
- I have nothing to add on the substantive issues beyond saying that I like what Ragnell’s written because I’m not really up to speed with the Wonder Woman/Lynda Carter side of things.
- Anyone who has previously claimed the existence of a hive vagina and notices that Ragnell and Cheryl Lynn aren’t seeing eye to eye can have a cognitive disonance cookie
- Anyone who tries to prove some point about it being overblown reaction because two feminists have different opinions will be met with a swift kick to the Akismet filter. I mean it.