I feel compelled to point out that it has never, EVER occurred to me to wish I looked like Batman or Superman…I am utterly non-envious of their “idealized bodies”, and for some reason I imagine I’m in with the majority, there. To be able to fly…to have a really cool car and a butler…sure. But honestly, that really is as far as it goes.

Gee, and isn’t that enough?

The rest of it, I don’t feel disposed to argue with. Just that one thought.

So is every woman with a large cup size a porn star? I don’t think so. It is demeaning and offensive to large-breasted women to imply that any character with larger than average breasts is some kind of professional sex object. If lies_d sees every well endowed woman in this way then it is not Power Girl who has the problem.

As for Turner, he needs to go take some life drawing classes and find out what women actually look like.

I just feel sorry for Darwyne Cook that he is being mentioned in the same breath as Turner, Cho and Hughes.

As has been pointed out already, unrealistic depictions of the female (and male) body are part of the whole point of superheroes in the first place. However, I’d still consider Hughes infinitely superior to Turner, and at the top of my list for reasons why would be the fact that Hughes’ women, while often possessing highly unlikely physical proportions, at least seem to be able to exist in three-dimensional space. By contrast, Turner makes the same fatal mistake as Liefeld, which is that their anatomies are literally so impossibly contorted that they could only be two-dimensional, in the same way as M.C. Escher illustrations.

It also bears mentioning that Hughes’ women actually look like they enjoy healthy meals, whereas Turner and Liefeld’s women are so emaciated that they appear both Cubist and insect-like. There’s nothing “wrong,” or even unrealistic, about a drawing of a gal with big boobs, as long as the rest of her body is proportioned to match.

I liked this comment…
“If male characters in American comic books were drawn with female readers in mind, there’d be much fewer masks, longer hair, no shirts, lower-riding pants, considerably more junk in the front, and poses that emphasize all these features enticingly and at random, inopportune moments.”
That’s Conan, although he mostly just wears a loin cloth, and you never hear any male fans complaining about his attire.

well, okay, his drawings of males are a bit harder to find, but I’ve got a small sampling of links here, http://tinpan.livejournal.com/73093.html
(although I’m not sure if he’s an artist for Cannon Hawke or just the designer). His men are nowhere near as sexualized as his women, but Turner’s depictions of both genders contain both sensual flair and bombast. That’s what gets him work.