Boobs, Boobs, Boobs
Boobs, Boobs, Boobs
May 08A couple of comicsbloggers respond to to Erik Larsen’s column about the Phantom Lady’s huge knockers:
Ragnell’s Written World: A Short Note to a Stupid Columnist
Mountain of Judgment: One Fan’s Opinions Are Like…
(Links found via When Fangirls Attack!)
Ragnell/Written World also offers a truly excellent Phantom Lady Breastrospective. Larsen responds here.
I was trying to think of something clever and cutting to say about the original column, but all I can think of is this: “Gah!” Especially regarding this part:
The Phantom Lady’s only distinguishing characteristics are her ample cans. That’s pretty much all she has going for her. Ditto Power Girl. To tone them down is to strip them of their identities. And frankly, that’s what they’re supposed to look like! It’s not a situation where an artist took Catwoman and distorted her to fit his fetishes — these characters started out busty as all hell — drawing them that way is drawing them right.
Yes! Drawing them right! Thank GOD there are a few artists out there who SHALL NOT BE MOVED by the evil censors on the INTERNET! They will draw their MASSIVE TA-TAS, censors be damned! Also, way to boil those two characters down to nothing more than a pair of tits.
Two pair, surely?
When did “cans” become a euphemism for “breasts”? Why, in my day, it was used in the singular form to mean another part of the anatomy.