Amanda Waller, a full-figured character (one of the few in comics) in the DC Universe got a unnecessary makeover today in the DC reboot. Photo courtesy of ComicAlliance.com
All I’m going to say is this: If you’re a professional comics artist (i.e. someone is paying you money to draw pictures) and you’re not using that as an opportunity to include underrepresented people in comics today, you’re a complete waste of time. In cases like this, all you’re doing is perpetuating a terrible, unhealthy image of what a woman is. The saddest part is, it’s totally fixable. All it would take is a handful of artists to stop being lazy and actually refuse to draw women the way a 12-year-old boy would. It’s not like the fashion industry, where it would take years for normal-sized women or even plus-sized women to become the norm. Mainstream comics publishers wonder why people aren’t reading comics anymore. It’s because they’re full of juvenile storytelling like this.
I’d like to add that I agree with a lot of you, too, that it’s really about over-sexualizing characters when that has nothing to do with the story. The weight is one thing, but the root problem is a bunch of artists/editors wanting their own masturbation material over telling a good story.
