When Petra and her sister Fritz first appeared, as shown at right, they were simply big-busted party fodder. That was around 1990 - the image of Petra with the big boobs and the twig-like arms is from Complete Love & Rockets #10. In 1992 Gilbert Hernandez made the two the stars of his sex comedy, Birdland.

The chest development of both women started out as very substantial, and there have been long, long storylines written about their breasts, their mother's breasts, and their half-sister Luba's breasts. Mostly to reject her mother, but also because they had gotten ridiculously big after the birth of her first child, Petra had a breast reduction. Her sister Fritz, at left in upper the panel, has also grown larger in the chest over the years, seemingly getting bustier and bustier with every issue. She's kinda silly big at this point, but I'm not going to complain.  I mean, if it was up to me every comic book would have women built like her.

At any rate, breasts aren't the only thing that have grown over the years. About eight or ten years ago, after her reduction, Petra began lifting weights seriously. And those twiggy arms have gotten bigger, and bigger, and bigger. The panel at left comes from Luba #10, and I suspect it will be reprinted in Luba: The Book of Ofelia, to be released in January.

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