AnonymousSorry you don’t like the artistic casting on that series.
Fortunately, as you point out, there are eight other books that you can choose to read instead.
Not every comic book is for every reader.
I actually like this question and I like Tom’s answer.
I would go one step further and challenge Tom as to who this book is actually for? Who is the target audience? Is Greg paired with this book to draw a male demographic in order to bolster sales?
While I hate that the tits and ass crowd needs to be pandered to in order sustain more female-led solo titles, I’m more than willing to accept $$$ as a reason rather than “Greg Land’s art is appropriate for this book and not all books are for everyone.”
I would also accept a direct “I love $$$” as a much less frustrating answer, and I find “fortunately there are eight other books you can choose to read instead” bordering on Hulk-Smash levels of (at best) obliviousness. It reads a bit like, “Hey, no worries! we make eight whole comics where the female lead isn’t drawn like a porn star caricature of a superhero as opposed to the hundreds of others where the same can be said of the male ones! Nothing to worry about!”
I mean, don’t get me wrong: I’m going to buy Spider-Woman and read it, and I’m glad Marvel keeps adding new ones, but the fact that there are now NINE female solo titles to the, what, twenty-three (? (in June, anyway)) male ones is not Mission Accomplished, it’s Mission Well Underway But Things Still Suck Generally And We Could Stand To More Explicitly/Frequently Acknowledge We Have A Responsibility We Take Seriously So Let’s Not Lose Momentum Please.
