Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Back to idiot book illustrations,

if only because it'll keep certain things(from Tam: Oh, wait, this isn't a deficiency of "heart", it's a deficiency of "honor" and "responsibility", neither of which are to be found in quantities fit to fill a teacup at 1600 Penna., apparently. ) from causing my head to rotate like a MRAP cupola in an ambush, Marja had a comment on that post, in part:
...I'd like to add one more thing: most of those heroines have a pretty big, er, bosom. Which will make running around with no support actually painful. Not to mention the fact that the ladies in question are going to be having a more or less droopy pair in record time.
I have, over the years, known a few rather well-endowed ladies, and they had one thing in common if nothing else: they'd rather have stood and fought with fingernails than run without some kind of support or binding for the girls. Once saw a girl, maybe 18, who may well have had more boobs than brains running with no bra; damn, that even looked painful!

Back to the covers, it's like seeing the cover on a book from The General series, and finding that it has little or no relation to what's actually in the story. Kind of like the Conan movies and comic books and book covers: they show him running around half-to-mostly bare- even in the freaking desert!- by choice; but if you actually read Howard's stories, he wears clothing and armor and the only time he'll be running around in a breechclout is if something/someone chased him out of his room/camp without time to grab his gear. And he remedies that as soon as possible.

Marta, come back anytime, and speak your piece.

Since we're on the subject of illustrations, Atomic Nerds pointed to a comic I've not heard of before: Hereville. I'd say a Jewish Buffy, but that's not quite right. I'm going to have to make time to read more of it.

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