Eh, but Manara exaggerates it and he has said as much. Other people less so...Cho, specifically, has an issue with boob socks. In any case, I was basically agreeing with you. But since you're going to be a smarmy tool, I'll let you have your Internet crown and feel much better about yourself. I'm sure it will help the doldrums.

Spiderman's "woohoo!" is a little childish too.

Well, that's, like, your opinion, Iron Man.

He's got the mask, so even assuming he got the collogen lips and was doing O-face we'd never know! Though to my knowledge his suit never did disappear all the way up his cleft. I haven't read much Spiderman in the last five years, I could be missing something.

And then, most of the time when he does have his arse in the air he's in possession of something/looming over someone, like a spider sitting in its web or dangling over its prey. Spiderwoman and then Gwen are both crawling over the edge of a building, which is closer to a spider managing to get out of a bathtub.

I do think it's a little ironic that Cho's doodle would have probably passed us all by, like a ship in the night, if they hadn't brought it to our attention.

I know what you're saying, I like when they're giving people hi-fives for advancing strong female characters and being strong women in their fields but I'm concerned about the negativity and what seems to be a perpetual outrage engine.

Wow that's some selective memory there. If those darned uppity feminazis getting angry ruins your morning, why don't you stop reading and posting? There are plenty of other sites out there that will prop up your lousy view of the world.

Maddox? Is it 1998 already?

Anyway, yes, Spider-Man is occasionally depicted as having a butt. His butt is not blatantly sexualized though. In that cover, he's bent over because he's just wrapped a crap ton of baddies in web. It's an action shot. His butt is well-defined but so are all his muscles. His butt is not the focus of the cover, the butt-kicking he's doing is. Spider-Woman? She's on a building, crawling across a roof for no apparent reason. The only things to look at are her butt and her hair. She's not doing anything except sticking her ass up in the air.

Notice how Spidey's ass takes up very little of the frame, but SW's takes up basically the whole top half of the page? His butt is one small part of a dynamic and rich composition, while hers is front row and center.

Also, Spidey is clearly wearing actual clothes, while SW is clearly wearing body paint for a costume. Like, seriously, how is that supposed to be cloth? There's just no way.

It takes a bit of practice to be able to pick up on this stuff. You are not really meant to notice it outright. These are the tricks and techniques artists use to direct your eye and the messages and feelings you get from looking at their work. While both Spider-people have butts, Spidey's cover says "Hey Spider-Man sure is cool and actiony and kick-ass!" while Spider-Woman's is just "LOOK AT THIS BUTT WOW"

Also where the fuck did her nose go? Did the Vulture steal it?

buy the real spider-gwen to make up for it :D

Maybe they are secretly my cat. She does that to try to get people to scratch her back right in front of her tail, and she likes to put her butt on people. She sits in the weirdest positions to make sure she's got contact.

Being all about dominance and power, that fits better than you might think. Dogs present and sniff in order to signal and ascertain their places in the immediate dominance hierarchy...when two dogs meet the submissive one releases stress scents. Then again, it makes the overt sexism of the drawings all that much more disturbing, too...