Is That a Comic Book on Your Blog or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Warning: most of the links in the post are probably not safe for work.

A couple of weeks ago a female friend of mine was having a bad day and wished that girls could “hulk out," a la Bruce Banner.  Obviously she’d never heard of She-Hulk, so I wanted to send her a picture. But lo and behold, I was way, way, way squicked out upon doing a Google image search to find that there’s a whole mess of She-Hulk porn out there in the cybernoise. I don’t even know how to respond to it; it makes me wretch on about eight different levels.

I had done my best to block the images from my mind but last week a fellow Readervillian [here’s her non-RV blog, fyi] pointed me to the Oddity Collector, who has a great send-up of Frank Miller, in response to his newest cover, which is typically ridiculous in its depiction of the female body (but at least she’s not green!). In response, Ms. OC wondered what our iconic heroes might look like if comic book artists gave equal attention to the boys. Pretty funny, in a homoerotic sort of way. Forgive me if I don’t actually post the images here, but I’m a prude.