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kleinbl00  ·  4255 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Entertaining write-up on why women's armor in fantasy is stupid.

Here's the cover of this month's Batwoman, courtesy DC Comics:

X-men Legacy Wallpaper, courtesy Marvel:

Artesia, the flagship of my friends over at Archaia:

(to be fair, most of the time she's wearing the very armor criticised in this article)

And, to round things out, my fine friends at Zenescope, who maintain they have a higher female readership than any other publisher because their stories are "female-centric":

It'd be super-cool to pretend that comics have moved on and gotten more progressive and yeah - there are those. But there always have been.

It's still Metal Hurlant's world. We just live in it.

"Deal with it" - Hajime Sorayama