Women in Comics

Haha. Aren't comics funny? Especially the old ones!

Well, recently I've been reading a few popular 'adult' graphic novels. And I've detected a common theme amongst those that I've read (Batman, Fly and X-Men): Half-dressed females! It is ridiculous the lack of fabric is alocated to these poor girls to dress themselves for crime fighting!

This is the cover of a comic called 'Fly'. I picked this up the other day, and a friend questioned my sexuality. This got me thinking, "I actually just ignore this now, because I know the story will probably be decent."
Oh dear. I have become so numb to the explicit drawings in these comics, that I just ignore them now!
We are potentially losing all of our self-dignity with images like this floating around.

Unfortunately, I think one of the worst comic book series for this sort of thing is the X-men. With so many different female characters, they seemed to run out of fabric pretty fast! Even when going to google some of the X-men characters, suggestions such as "*character* hot" or "*character* sexy" are showing up. It's so disappointing that these comics are so graphic in more ways than one; but even more so that we simply don't seem to care. 

But, the costume that leaves the least to the memory goes to.......*drumroll*

Poison Ivy! Wearing nothing but leaves, in true Adam and Eve style.

If you would like to read more, here are some good links:

The Problem Of Women In Comics: Where They Are (and Aren't) [Opinion] 

The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their 'Liberated Sexuality'
Sexy Sexism in Comics