Check this out – it's both hilarious and brilliantly disturbing - artist Kevin Bolk's re-imagining of The Avengers, with the male superheroes depicted in the way female superheroes are usually drawn.
Bolt was prompted to draw the parody after seeing the promotional image for the new Avengers movie, writing a couple of months ago that it "would be awesome if only Black Widow wasn't in a ridiculous and impractical 'look at my ass' pose. It just seems unfair that everyone else gets to be heroic and she's just 'Ohai! Pin-Up!'"
Now it's the Hulk and his male friends who are arse-forwards, in an image which really does, as Tom Davenport puts it, highlight the "sexism in comic culture".
I'm with io9, who are hoping that "Bolk and other artists remake all the other male supers who are deserving of their own pin-up shots". Although the Bolk image does rather remind me of some of the classic bad science fiction book covers from days of yore – perhaps instead of hoping that female superheroes shouldn't be depicted in pin-up poses, we should be campaigning for men to show more muscles. For "look at my ass" poses to be shared between the sexes. Thoughts?
