{"id":439,"date":"2007-03-29T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/439"},"modified":"2007-03-29T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T16:26:45","slug":"tits-up-a-comic-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Tits Up: A Comic Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tits Up is a recurring feature where I will chronicle gratuitous T&A and the objectification of women throughout fandom and the geekverse at large, especially in mainstream superhero comic books.<\/em><\/p>\n

Months ago, in my ongoing exploration of the seedy underbelly of Orlando’s strip malls and shopping “centres,” I came across A Comic Shop.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is exactly what its name implies. Except it’s actually a pretty GOOD comic shop–they had an impressive selection of indie titles, displayed in an appealing fashion. I was tempted to buy a lot, but settled on a few back issues of Local that I was missing.<\/p>\n

Cut to MySpace, circa recently. I’m poking around, looking to “friend” places of interest in my locality, when I stumble across A Comic Shop’s MySpace page.<\/a> Cool enough, I think.<\/p>\n

Until I click around, and discover their “Girls of A Comic Shop.” They’re immortalized on the MySpace page in both video and photo form. Basically, it’s fake-breasted models posing in skimpy outfits and superhero costumes. Here’s a PERFECT example.<\/p>\n

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So, okay. We have here what appears to be a very cool comics shop, with a very discriminating product assortment along with all the typical spandex fare, that insists on selling itself by appealing to the ABSOLUTE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR OF DROOLING, IDIOT FANBOYS.<\/p>\n

In other words, if you think it’s TOTALLY HAWT to see a CHICK WITH NO TOP with OHEMGEE BOOBIES using OHEMGEE AN ISSUE OF INFINITE CRISIS AS A SHIRT I THINK I JUST SOILED MY SPIDER-MAN UNDEROOS, then come on down!<\/p>\n

And trust me, it gets worse. Fanboys, grab the kleenex!<\/p>\n

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I believe those are what you’d call “stripper heels,” right there.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you visit the actual website<\/a> belonging to A Comic Shop, it takes some clicking to find the “Girls of A Comic Shop,” meaning they clearly think they can have their smutty cake and eat it too–that they can appear to be a discriminating comic book store that also happens to be willing to shove mega-hooters in your face if it will get you in the door. Which says many pathetic things about both the proprietors of that store and the state of modern comics fandom.<\/p>\n

This was a tough one to write, because us geeks should all be supporting good comic book stores in any part of the country as much as we can. But the blatant chauvinism and objectification on display here…well, it was just too much for lil’ ol’ sensitive me.<\/p>\n

A Comic Shop, you have gone…TITS UP.<\/p>\n

Previously:
\nTits Up: Buy the Cheerleader, Be a Creep<\/a>
\nTits Up: Ex Machina<\/a>
\nSuper Titties<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tits Up is a recurring feature where I will chronicle gratuitous T&A and the objectification of women throughout fandom and the geekverse at large, especially in mainstream superhero comic books. Months ago, in my ongoing exploration of the seedy underbelly of Orlando’s strip malls and shopping “centres,” I came across A Comic Shop. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-fandom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}