- Since people often ask “Alright, well this is fantasy! Why can’t we have boob shapes in plate armor?!” I decided to make a post about it. My frustration has nothing to do with historical inaccuracy and I’m all for imagination and freedom— but I’d like to (very quickly) illustrate this for you--
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
I don't know. In fantasy settings, women warriors are often portrayed as badasses. Sometimes, for example Red Sonja, this type of armor works with her image and also sells the product. Her "armor" is so skimpy as to be basically worthless, but that's ok because she's an insanely amazing fighter and the world she inhabits is cartoonish. In a more realistic fantasy setting, this might work against the character, particularly if the character is otherwise practically minded.
