The above image is a panel from Marvel’s Secret Invasion #8, by Leinil Francis Yu, Mark Morales and Laura Martin. What is wrong with it?
a.) It’s a drawing of a green-skinned alien woman with a severely broken jaw and large breasts dressed in a Spider-Woman costume that’s been shredded by Wolverine’s claws, a large rip in the pants revealing part of her black thong panties.
b.) It’s a drawing of a green-skinned alien woman with a severely broken jaw and large breasts dressed in a Spider-Woman costume that’s been shredded by Wolverine’s claws, a large rip in the pants revealing part of her black thong panties, but the artists forgot to draw the part of her panties that should be visible through the rips on her left hip.
c.) Both a and b.
d.) There is nothing wrong with this image at all.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:14 am
It’s more disturbing than that even. If she’s shapeshifting, then her clothes are actually her body. So the skrull queen is actually taking the time to shapeshift thong panties under her shapeshited clothes, which are all really her skin anyway…
Even ignoring the cheesecake factor, it makes my head hurt.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I didn’t even think of it like that, and now that I have, I wish I hadn’t. So are you saying that, given their choice, women who could shapeshift wouldn’t shapeshift themselves a thong?
December 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
e.) Marvel got freaked at the idea of a naked undead chick w/ big hooters in the original art, and not wanted to be poster boys for necropheliacs everywhere (more than they are), had the editors slap on some undies.
Aside: Wolverines claws are impervious to thongs? New villain idea!!
December 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
or skrulls just wear half-panties… you know, instead of the crotchless variety.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Maybe getting arrowed in the face just confuses skrulls? Where’s my no-prize?
Couldn’t you have highlighted the fact that Elvis was actually a skrull and was taken with Pym, Spider-woman, Dum Dum, etc. from the Skrull ship and just how cool a Matt Fraction “Elvis in the modern MU” book would be?
December 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Are you sure that’s a thong? Maybe Skrulls just have absurd pubic hair.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I think it’s just an odd choice for a shadow, not underwear.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Shi’ar pubic hair’s the best.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Fanboi:
Don’t the Shi’ar have feathers instead of hair? So that would make it pubic feathers wouldn’t it?
I wonder if Shi’ar search for mates with attractive “plume.” HA!
December 8th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Man, talk about too much time on your hands. Sheesh.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
nah too much time on your hands is wondering about the sex lives of the skrull impersonators – both male and female – and wondering just what the Secret Invasion: Maternity special will be about.
that, and the whole comment about skrulls and clothing is creeping me out. I mean, say tigra, who wasn’t a skrull, but was hot & heavy with Hank Pym (a skrull) started to take his shirt off. Is it like shedding skin? Does he scream out in pain as she inadvertently flays him?
December 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
If Wolverine’s claws ripped through her costume then why would they not have ripped through her underwear as well?
December 8th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
By the way Matt, that wasn’t Skrull skin. It was clearly shown that when the Skrulls took on the “undetectable” infiltration technique, they were unable to shapeshift without losing their undetectability. All the Skrulls who went through that process emerged naked, and didn’t shapeshift again until the Invasion (or when they were killed), so that was in fact a real shirt Tigra was ripping off…
December 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
What amazes me is that, even in the comments, nobody mentions that the slash across her chest was clearly delivered by FOUR claws. Did Bendis find a way to have Ultimate Sabretooth added to the mix?
To get my NO-Prize, I surmised that Wolverine hit her with a double hay maker, and the middle and inner claws on the trailing hand registered along the cuts made by the middle and inner claws of the leading hand, thus leaving four, parallel wounds. In fact, I bet Ultimate Wolverine uses that move to frame Ultimate Sabretooth all the time.
I totally would. Back in the day, in the lair of Weapon X, Ultimate Doctor Cornelius accuses…
“Ultimate Wolverine, did you scratch up my most recent issue of Ultimate Canadian Geographic?!”
“Check again, Bub. That fourth cuts means it couldn’t ‘ta been me.”
“Oh, well then…I guess I owe you an apology. Have seen Ultimate Sabretooth around?”
“Don’t mention it, and I think I saw him laughin’ with some of the guys out in the smokin’ cage.”
“Thank you…carry on.”
“Sure, Doc…heh, heh, heh…”
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
how do i put those questions that people click the answers i chose?
November 15th, 2010 at 12:16 am
i got pregnant a couple of months ago and right now i am choosing the right kind of maternity clothes that is comfortable ,”;
February 4th, 2012 at 11:17 am
Devastated. I didnrrrt miss a show, no matter where I was, for my entire childhood. Which was where we SHONE. Almost every other dance show since was just trying to keep up.