So I want to say a little bit about today’s page. You will notice in the first panel bunny looks a little funny and this is… well I would say it’s my fault but really it’s not. The person to blame for it is Rob Liefeld.
You see the Erwin is a fan of american comic books and there are times the style in superhero comics influences his work. I this case the original version of this page looked like this:
My first response to this was “Oh my lord! What happened to Bunny’s spine? I know Bunny’s supposed to be flexible but yikes! She looks like some kind of femdroid and I don’t want to reveal that until… ” I mean I said “yikes” and stopped talking. I didn’t say anything after yikes.
Still I can see why Erwin drew Bunny like this. This pose is pretty much par for the course on your average comic book cover. It’s anatomically wrong but it’s got the comic book industry seal of approval. If you think about it is no more “wrong” than a chibi panel to get across emotion or a classic loony toons wild take. Comic are about deforming the character to get across meaning. It’s just in this case the meaning was “Bunny has nice tits and ass”. And that’s not really what I was shooting for.
Don’t get me wrong I like Bunny’s butt as much as the next guy but I really don’t want this comic to be about Bunny’s posterior. I really hope there is more to the comic than fan service. Sure, the can be some male gaze and sexy fun moment from time to time. In the right scene they can be quite enjoyable. But in a scene where Bunny is pushing her friend off a roof because she is a bit of an insane sociopath it’s just not right to focus on her assets. Frankly if you are only here to stair at Bunny’s butt, then I have failed as a writer and you would be doing us all a favor by leaving this site and finding some porn. If your here for the story and to stare a Bunny’s butt, well that is acceptable.
Now remember Erwin has just come back from some troubles and didn’t have a lot of drawing time. He was doing me a favor getting the pages in for this week. Still I had to insist that Erwin put her bottom half one the correct way. So he did a quick redraw and it came out looking a little weird. In this case I had to sacrifice the art of the page for meaning.
Just wanted to defend Erwins honor on this a bit. I leave you with final thought:
DAMN YOU LIEFELD!!!!!! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!
Update.
I have been informed that after years of trial and error they have finally produced the perfect female superhero:
http://neilsama.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d4rxdzj
Thanks to Ben of Hero Academy (where women’s torsos are constructed the boring normal way) for showing that to me.
Update to Update
The magic spine strikes again:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/06/12/artists-respond-dc-comics-back-breaking-catwoman-0-cover/
Although in Guillem March’s defense cats can actually do this:
http://sciencefocus.com/oup/oup-story/how-cats-land-their-feet
Haha, this is perfect. Thanks for posting all this. I was laughing my a-…I was laughing pretty hard.
Erwin’s a talented comic book artist and I really like his work usually. How shameful of that Rob Liefeld to swoop in and turn that baseball cap backwards (does Erwin wear a baseball cap? It’s…pathetic fallacy? Simile? Pun? Hyperbole?)
Yeah, that does kinda make her look like some sort of automaton. Maybe that’s why robots keep trying to kill her? They’re mistaking her for some kind of escaped sexdroid that went on the run and earns a living as an assassin to keep it in fuel cells? Which would admittedly be an interesting premise if a little obvious.
Actually I failed to notice it at first due to screen restriction. You see, I only see the top of Bunny’s body down to the waists. Then I switch to the right to read the story, and only when I was done did I look to the left to see the bottom of Bunny’s body. Which was, due to scrolling, like seeing parts of Bunny’s body in two pannels.
It’s only when I saw this note about it I could see a minimized version of the page and notice how her body was stretched like a rubber band, and the spine problem.
As a result the whole reaction amused me, so did the perfect female super hero picture ^^ . I have to add both butt and breasts should be able to rotate on a 360° axle, so even when you draw them for the back, you’re able to see the goods.
Aaaaanyway… I’m not looking for asses and breasts, I’m past that. No, I’m looking for explicit sexualised relationships of various kinds! And it’s not just in that comic! Don’t blame yourself as an artist, blame the fandom, because we are creepy, and we love it.