Week 12: Comics by Women

For this week's blog post, I read some of the "She-Hulk" comics along with some of the comics we were reading from in class but for this post, I'll be focusing more on the "She-Hulk" comics. I want to focus more on these because I can compare them to man-made comics that star women heroes. The biggest difference you can immediately notice is the style and body proportions. In most comics with just well any woman in it really, you'd see super unrealistic body proportions. You know which ones I'm talking about. The tiny tiny waist, the giant boobs, the similar facial features to all other women heroes in comics, and the lack of variety of shapes and sizes within the comics in general. Yes, in this comic She-Hulk does have fairly big boobs but the difference here was that they were more natural in shape AND you couldn't see her nipples 24/7 and they didn't look like they could stab your eye out because in men's comics those ones are clearly made of steel or something because they dont move or go away ever! I also liked that she had a different look with the proportions of her facial features. I also liked that not every single female in this comic looked the same in relation to body type. There was Patsy, who still had a "fit" figure, was more petite and shorter than She-Hulk and then there was also Angie whose figure was more realistic and something you could easily see if you went outside in the real world. I also think that women who make comics with women in them obviously know how the female body works and don't usually depict super unrealistic movements and angles. I've seen some comics where literally a female character's ass is right in your face but you can also see both of her boobs facing you as well. Like what? How? That's not even remotely possible unless, of course, you don't have a spine or you're a contortionist or something. I will also say that I enjoyed seeing a male character who is clearly an ass and is entitled actually (eventually) admitting that he does have feelings and doesn't want to conform to his father's expectations and that he wants to be his own person.