Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m striking a blow against the patriarchy by writing up a list of Ten “Sexy” Super-Heroine Costumes That Really Aren’t. It was actually a little harder to compile than it sounds, because there really is a difference between bad costumes and bad art, as well as between costumes that are supposed to be sexy and costumes that are just lousy.
I know, I know. My life is soooooooo hard.
I had my doubts about this article when I first clicked the link (despite the fact that you acknowledge the difference, I figured you’d have outfits that were just lousy), but you pulled it off. And you think the Batman Returns Catwoman outfit sucks.
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
I liked Batman Returns and Catwoman’s outfit. Darn it, Chris!
Jeez, that Tarot costume is the most impractical outfit ever conceived…
Stuff you can’t do while wearing Tarot boots with foot-long spikes poking out on their sides:
1. Ride a bicycle through urban traffic.
2. Walk through a narrow doorway.
3. Ride a bus.
4. Sit around a table with other people seated next to you.
5. Take a seat on a passenger plane.
6. Walk through a revolving door.
Etc..
Actually, I think Tim Burton’s S&M Catwoman was way better than the Purple Cat Stripper that graced the pages of Batman magazines around that era. And honestly? I think Michelle Pfieffer’s patchwork PVC costume is more interesting than modern Catwoman, with her silly flying ace goggles (and who only looks good because of the skill of modern artists)
One of these days you guys are going to have to tell me what it’s like to be so wrong.
Kudos on the Huntress mention. Hopefully new BOP artist jsus Saiz will bring back the Hamner costume or give her another head-to-toe outfit. Wearing that exposed abs outfit in Gotham-friggin’-City makes absolutely ZERO sense.
I just looked at the Tarot picture and I still can’t get the room to stop spinning.
The upshot of all this, as well as a multitude of other lists illustrating things from the period, is that 90’s era comics should, for the most part, fuck off and die and leave us elder readers the illusion that the whole godawful decade and it’s execrable artists and – God forgive me – “creators” never happened. The simple fact that these moronic, untalented artists should have ever enjoyed anything more than simple “who the hell are you” status is a blight on the medium as a whole.
Cheers,
Mal