Comments | odditycollector: ‘Cuz if Marvel can do it, DC can do it five times over and almost as well! (part 1: tentacoo wape)

odditycollector

‘Cuz if Marvel can do it, DC can do it five times over and almost as well! (part 1: tentacoo wape)

Jun 19, 2007 01:41

This solicit Monday, DC was nice enough to remix that infamous Heroes for Hentai cover for us! With... their usual display of restraint, as it happens, so we’ve got a few covers vying for the coveted award of Best Tentacle Threat!

( Our contenders! )

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Comments 15

vito_excalibur June 19 2007, 14:51:00 UTC

Yay WonderGirl! I would have voted for the Flash cover though, just to encourage men in the industry, but... I can't. I'm not even looking at that thing again.

odditycollector June 19 2007, 17:03:27 UTC

I feel... I would like to support comic book men having their own ridiculous covers? But that image hurts me in my brain. It is bouncing off too much context in there!

plum177 June 20 2007, 03:07:32 UTC

sorry 'bout this, hafta jump in for a mo... Icon love! - ODL someone who reads Questionable Content! gah.

Sorry, you don't meet all that many in england. *cries* ...

vagabondsal June 19 2007, 16:39:32 UTC

Dude, I had no idea that Cassie's getting her own series. Where have I been?

odditycollector June 19 2007, 16:52:33 UTC

Not as addicted to DC Solicits as I am? I just found out in time for the poll!

It's by the guy who write the new Blue Beetle, I believe, so I am totally optimistic. Maybe Cassie will be interesting again!

votemarvel June 19 2007, 20:00:31 UTC

Perhaps because he hardest manga/anime I've ever seen is Ranma 1/2 I really didn't see what was wrong with the Heroes for Hire cover until it was pointed out to me. I just saw it and though "ooo boobies."

odditycollector June 20 2007, 03:48:56 UTC

I've read very little manga, myself, but I find that it is the internet's hobby to fill in all those gaps in knowledge of things you could have happily lived your entire life without being aware of NO REALLY K THX.

vejiicakes June 19 2007, 22:02:57 UTC

Going by the results of the poll for "Best Tentacle Threat" cover, I'm not.. I'm not entirely sure voters were working with the same definition for "best" O_O

The top contenders featured the extremes of "best depiction of a hero dealing with them as they should be dealt" (Wonder Girl) and "best depiction of a hero being about as WTF and as 'heroic' about it as the HFH 'heroes' and therefore somewhat leveling the playing field" (Flash). It really is probably the closest we'd get to an appropriately inappropriate gender-flipped version of the HFH cover, at least outside of fanart or a big house contest for who can get the most rapey. Christ, they really did put a vagina with teeth on the cover, holy-

I voted for the latter category because I am malicious, though I will say that of all the tentacle-like creature threat covers, I like the Wonder Girl one the most.

odditycollector June 20 2007, 03:29:17 UTC

"best depiction of a hero being about as WTF and as 'heroic' about it as the HFH 'heroes' and therefore somewhat leveling the playing field" (Flash).
I think he does come across a lot more heroic than they did, even cultural gender context thingies aside. (divalea's got an EVEN MORE DISTRESSING remix of it done.)

I'm not entirely sure voters were working with the same definition for "best" O_O
Well neither were the entrants, so I figure that's okay! If it had been the "tentacle cover I'm most likely to buy" contest, the results would have been different, I'd guess. (Although I can't say for *certain*: Fandom is a strange beast all on its own.)

mari_redstar June 20 2007, 02:09:19 UTC

Really, I'm just worrying about how we seem to be looking down at Batman but straight on at Ivy. Pamela disdains traditional perspective as a tool of the land-ravaging industrialists?

Cassie's low-low-rider jeans bother me more than her cup size, but not very much, because, hey, Wonder Girl a-punching stuff. Something is right in the world. (Although cleavage and bare midriff seem a bit much. Usually heroines get to pick one.)

Wonder if I could make that Wonder Girl outfit for Halloween? The metal stuff would be the only real problem, but I could figure out something for the tank top and then maybe aluminum foil for the gauntlets? Glow-in-the-dark paint on the lasso would be neat.

odditycollector June 20 2007, 03:21:55 UTC

Pamela disdains traditional perspective as a tool of the land-ravaging industrialists?
Maybe Pamela is like one of those 3d sidewalk paintings, that only look right from a very particular standing point? Sure, she looks OK to us, but brom Batman's POV, she is probably a mess of missized limbs and misshapen features.

You could totally - Cassie has tended to stick with Halloween friendly costumes! (Er. *relooks* Unless it is cold on Halloween, I suppose.) The glow in the dark lasso thing sounds pretty cool. :)

mari_redstar June 20 2007, 12:14:20 UTC

Oh, those are awesome. *bookmarks*

Wonder Girls don't feel the cold! Alternatively, if it actually gets chilly, I can put on a trench coat and become Cassie, undercover as the Question and not doing a very good job of it. (Or Renee Montoya, not wearing the face mask and dressed up like Wonder Girl. One of those.)

odditycollector June 21 2007, 06:51:35 UTC

mari_redstar pretending to be Cassie pretending to be Renee pretending to be Cassie?

Good luck keeping that straight after the Halloween party!