| JLA Classified #17 |
| Wednesday, 22 February 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
How is her bustier staying on? Seriously, if she doesn't want her wonder muffins winding up as fan service on the cover of a comic book, she shouldn't lean forward like that. And of course, comic readers will pick up the comic just to see if the muffins do pop out. (They don't.) It's fairly explicit and well beyond what the mainstream comic publishers normally show - which is saying something. Also, JLA Classified #17 has the Comics Code Authority stamp on it, believe it or not, just about five inches away from Wonder Titties Unbound. I guess the Code doesn't mean what it used to.(And by the way - while I'm on the subject of moral degeneracy in the funny books - Marvel may think it squeaked by over this whole gay cowboy business, but some of us have longer memories than that.) The interior art on #17 is pretty strange. It's stylistically consistent with the cover art, which is nice because it means the book is filled with a curvy, buff Wonder Woman, built like a college swimmer or a female rower. Unfortunately her costume doesn't get so much as a tear in it. You'd think they'd muck it up just a bit, but nope. Oddly, there are three (3) panels that show Wonder Woman drinking tea. Which is all well and good, I suppose, except she makes it with a tea bag. So let me get this straight: she's royalty, the princess of an immortal kingdom of women who apparently just sit around all day sipping tea and yapping about the gods for eternity. Yet despite her privileged and indulgent background, Wonder Woman's in the habit of sticking a Lipton tea bag in some hot water when she wants a little satisfaction? What's the hurry? She doesn't have a job and she's gonna live forever, why not brew it up proper? Or get the servants to do it for her? And then over in Green Lantern #9, Geoff Johns has Hal Jordan asking Batman if Alfred can get him a cup of honey tea. (I swear to Christ I am not making this up.) WTF is going on with all this tea? Is this tea month at DC? Will there be some kind of cross-over event? So, back to Wonder Woman, she finally gets in a fight with the Flash and you think, "thank God, that tea business is over with," but then she drops the cup. That's a whole panel right there - two superhumans duking it out and the penciller thought it would be a good idea to show her mug - not even a tea cup! - hitting the floor and splintering, the tea spilling everywhere. A whole panel! And it's not even a nice mug - it's like one you get for opening a bank account or from your dentist. Even if it was screen-printed and had "I ♥ Monkeys!" on the side, it wouldn't be worth a whole panel. But it made me curious. Who's going to clean up that mess? Not the princess, that's for damned sure. And Alfred's still recovering from getting stabbed. Related Items:
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