Oh for Fuck's Sake...

I'd like to think I'm relatively tolerant of T&A on comic book covers, in general. I've certainly mellowed in the years since I've had my tirade against midriffs at least. I bought She-Hulk regularly despite the silly covers until the writing got to be too much for me, and I'm usually okay with Ms. Marvel too.

And unlike my partner I thought this cover was fucking hilarious.

I still do. Hee. Sorry, Ragnell. :-)

But maybe I'm wrong, because the cover linked in Rich's post here makes me twitch.

I swiped the cover in question:



Someone please tell me this is a hoax. Or at least that there's a variant cover. Because I like Ms. Marvel. I do. It's a good comic far better than the idiot covers they put on it. I get the need for cheesecake and usually I can look past it.

But I can not walk into a comic book store and purchase that.

Ms. Marvel's been skirting the line for a while, but this looks like it was lifted straight off the jacket of some military-themed porn!

This COULD be a clever cover. It has the elements at least. I really do like the pins and the background. But this completely robs the cover of all that cleverness. Seriously, what the fuck?

And it's not like it couldn't be sexy AND clever. Carol's hot. Military uniforms and fatigues are hot. Easy equation.

This though, it's just lazy! And embarrassing!

Pfeh, I hope nothing of import happens in this issue, because if that's the cover facing me in the store, I am NOT going to be caught dead buying it. Egads.