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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:39 am Post subject: A new super-heroine?
As elsewhere in the forum there has been some comment about the lack of female-friendly fantasy figures I thought I'd invent one of my own:
Our heroine is very fat and works as in some admin post at a fire station with a LOT of hunky fireman who treat her either as a mate or a joke.
One day she buys some dodgy slimming pills off the internet that promise to burn off the excess fat - and they do - literally, giving her a fabulous figure and some Human Torch-like powers. Obviously her clothes burn off in the process (don't say I never do anything for you, lads) so she'll probably have to buy some asbestos knickers.
In her superhero guise she goes out and helps her firefighter chums who obviously fail to recognise her and think that she's an absolute babe. The irony is that in her new identity she is literally too hot to handle, let alone anything more intimate.
Plus the effect of the pills are only temporary so every time they wear off its back to being a fatty, only as her hair also burns off, now she's bald as well.
If you really want to be clever you could call her L'Hooq
(For non-french, non-artists, this is a Duchamp joke - when you spell out the letters in french it translates as 'She has a hot ..something or other')
I hasten to add this is not my personal fantasy - unlike most women in the Western world I am not weight obsessed and (even more unusually) do not have a thing about firemen.
So what do you think?
Feel free to slag it off. My back is broad. _________________ A broken stereotype is a beautiful thing
All on my own? yeah right, I might even get it finished by 2010.
I am however open to offers of collaboration.
Interested anyone? _________________ A broken stereotype is a beautiful thing
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: A new super-heroine?
Well I'd sure be very interested to see it developed. I think I'd be way out of my depth in having any input on it, though. Not sure how commercial it might be but you know, sometimes things that are quite radically different can really take off.
That could be pretty interesting. Good core concept, anyway.
Primarily a "message book", or are you thinking of concentrating on telling a good story - and letting whatever socio messages come through on their own?
Also... drawn [2D], or 3D? Reason I ask... if it's 3D, I've noticed a definate dearth of good clothing [normal or other] for heavy characters. That'd add an additional difficulty and time element in doing it with poser: clothifying or "tailoring" the conforming items. Or making them... _________________ "I'd add a legitimate comment here, but that would mean reading everything, which I have no patience for." - Slynky
Oh, good story definitely - I don't think it is necessary or useful to propagandise overtly - if a story sermonises too much it becomes both boring and risible, you only have to read a few 'instructive' Victorian novels to see that whereas if just you tell it as it is any messages will flow naturally.
I think maybe previous comics featuring - shall we say 'empowered' women - have failed because they were produced by people primarily driven by the wish to raise consciousnesses or, more cynically, in hopes of tapping into a new market without any real understanding of what the punters wanted (as opposed to what they thought they wanted)
I don't anticipate illustrating it myself as it doesn't jib with my style, but thank you for the info - I'm not the greatest fan of Poser in its unadulterated state but I shan't say any more as its probably a greater heresy on this site than being a feminist. _________________ A broken stereotype is a beautiful thing
Yeah. Given the concept, if it's done well, any inherent themes should flow naturally. And readers are intelligent: they can draw their own conclusions.
Not a heresy. Poser unadluterated is pretty raw for illsutration. It takes a good hand with photoshop and postwork, plus technique to turn it into a good illustrator tool.
It's only real advantage is that it handles human figures well, and quickly. _________________ "I'd add a legitimate comment here, but that would mean reading everything, which I have no patience for." - Slynky
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Poser unadluterated is pretty raw for illsutration. It takes a good hand with photoshop and postwork, plus technique to turn it into a good illustrator tool.