Ah, Yeah, I don't think so

So...Heroes for Hire #13...

Well, it certainly looks like Marvel's finally taking the advice of courting the manga-reading community?

Though honestly, if you were going to court the tentacle porn crowd, wouldn't it have been wiser to do so with a MAX labeled book? What exactly is that imprint for, aside from letting Pete Wisdom use his full vocabulary?

Seriously, I don't have anything against tentacle porn mind you, it's certainly not to my taste, but different strokes for different folks and all that. But dude, even in Japan, that's kind of an "adults-only" deal...

What possessed someone to put that on a 9+ book???

Not to mention, you know, the tentacle porn crowd isn't any stupider than any other geek subset, they're going to realize that the internal content of the book doesn't match what's promised on the cover. Which means that I really doubt the initial sales leap this cover will undoubtedly give will last.

At least I HOPE the internal content doesn't match the cover. I really want to give the comic company credit for THAT much intelligence at least.

To try to give the creative team a little benefit of the doubt, I honestly think the story might end up being one of those tongue-in-cheek turn-around sorts of satire/homages. Wherein possibly the girls, when faced with some sort of tentacle rape cliche, turn around and kick the tentacled things where it counts. The cover might be intended as some sort of misdirection or similar sort of "homage".

But you know, I have no intention of ever finding out if I'm right. Because, while I have a strong stomach for suggestive imagery and a certain shamelessness in being seen with/around it (I used to read manga and well, what you find in a used manga shop in Sannomiya's a bit different than what you see in the aisles of Borders) this actually draws the line for me. I would buy a hundred of those almost naked Star Sapphires with Hal Jordan under her boot issues before I get caught dead even glancing at this cover in a public setting.

By the way, as Ragnell and others have pointed out, Felicia probably wasn't the wisest choice for this kind of comic cover. No matter the intent. BAD DECISION.

If you like the cover, good for you. But all I know is that you could tell me the inside story is the awesomest story ever, written by my favoritest author ever, and I will never touch this comic.

Which is a shame because I heard really good things about Misty Knight and Colleen Wing. Enough to possibly check it out. Now...not so much. See, I hate missing issues in the middle of a storyline, so if I buy this month's and actually like it, I'm gonna be real irritated to have a gap come August.

I think I'll leave it alone.

You know, in one of the first posts about this Ragnell found for WFA, I saw a person comment something about the poster possibly overreacting, judging the book too much by its cover. (I'm too lazy to hunt for the link, though I'm sure you could find it if you really want to.)

I disagree honestly. Sure, images appear on the cover of a comic that have little or nothing to do with what actually happens in the pages. But covers are supposed to attract someone's attention and make them want to read the comic.

The only thing this cover makes me want is a shower.