As far as I know, the only people who love Henry Cavill-like super-muscular Superman are straight men.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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Omg the artist didn't draw her showing her underwear with an impossibly low cut jean that should nearly reveal her vagina, and reduced the cup size from the usual D to a C, with no cleavage!
It's almost as if now that he's dropped the pointless and ridiculously skimpy outfits the readers can actually see the point of the comic strip! Great progress
I'm fine with any exaggerated hot stuff in comics, but the victim mindset Jago displays is a big turn-off. Just be a milder, less funny version of Oglaf and take that as the W it is!
I'm also fine with hot stuff in comics as long as the artist doesn't try to gaslight me. Oglaf is actually witty, the sexualized stuff often has narrative relevance or is part of the characters personalities, and there are plenty of characters who aren't sexualised that balance things out. It doesn't raise unnecessary questions. And to take things one step further, Oglaf shows some variety of body shapes in the comics, making them visually interesting. The characters feel unique.
Jago otoh, just likes to draw the same thing, and the skimpy outfits are more often than not just plain irrelevant to the comic's point. Fair enough if that's what he likes, each to their own, but I'm not buying it when he tries to sell me some sort of moral high ground. Go take a hike (to Jago, not to you).
Pretty much! Be horny, but keep in mind that respect is hot.
Omg the artist didn't draw her showing her underwear with an impossibly low cut jean that should nearly reveal her vagina,
Your point is? Apart from rambling of course.
Expressing my appreciation of this artist's improvement, of course. Comparing the current work with the majority of previous work.
I'm guessing þe artist is working off Henry Cavil's IRL experience, where he complained about being objectified , in person, by women interviewers. And just like IRL Cavil, Lemmy is leveling þe same criticisms against þe artist þat Cavil got for bringing it up.
Everyone should have a Voice.
Shush, there is only one version of the TRUTH 😂😂😂
... Is it a me-problem that I don't feel as though superman's design is that terribly sexualized or objectified at all in the first place???
Maybe it could be because I'm asexual, but, the thing about that is: I've never had trouble telling when something was manufactured for titillation in the past. Because, I have found, it always seems as though titillation is not so much about what it includes, but about what it lacks.
Y'know how pornography has either no story, or its story is of a most rudimentarily threadbare quality?
How the props are cheap if there are any aside from sex toys...
Usually it's because of the presumption that nobody's going to be paying attention to all the other background stuff, they're here to ogle the sex.
...which is to say, again, Defined By What It Lacks: Distraction From The Sex.