The title image is what inspired me to undertake this project in the first place, when I realized how stupid it would look once it was removed from its original context (The Legend of Wonder Woman #2). The girl almost looks as if she's supporting the woman, who has no rational reason to be in that posture, unless she's doing aerobics. It's completely gratuitous; her butt has accidentally wandered into the perfect position for it to be hit with a book. I could go on and complain about everyone's feet, but... ecch. All in all, the execution of this comics panel is just bad.

Addendum: On the (now defunct) Warren Ellis comics discussion forum, Kurt Busiek identified himself as the writer of the above panel, describing the context as "Runaway brat / wannabe sidekick Suzie is assaulting one of the henchwomen of subatomic dictator Atomia." Michael Dietsch asked him, "Under what circumstances would you write the direction, 'Girl hits woman's ass with book'?" Busiek's reply was, "While I wouldn't rule out ever writing that, I expect that was simply how the artist chose to interpret a description of the girl in question rushing in and attacking the evil queen -from- behind, not specifically -on- the behind."

Home - Index - Next>>