Today let's take a break in my convention recap, shall we? I got home late tonight and I have been wanting to post this cover all week, so it is time.
In the past I have said I wasn't going to pick on Witchblade, but for this I am making an exception. Emerald City Comicon had this cover of issue #117 as an exclusive variant for the show and it just feels right to have a bit of a discussion about it.
Artist Eric Basaldua has put a tattoo in our cover girl's very prominent butt cheek for all to see. She is obviously a fan of the show, otherwise she wouldn't have made such a serious commitment in ink.
The hat is cute and sporty, and the finger to the mouth is eerily reminiscent of a pose I saw Kendra, one of Hef's girlfriends, do on the cover of Playboy. Clad in Daisy Dukes and a half t-shirt, it looks like Sara (I am assuming it is new mother Sara Pezzini) is ready to show the fanboys how to party.
Enough about my opinions though. I have got to just ask this once:
Is this gratuitous?
I will be back tomorrow to wrap up the show and give you some great links. For tonight, enjoy!
OMFG YES.
ReplyDeleteI feel dirty after having looked at this.
ReplyDeleteYes
It's SO gratuitous.
ReplyDeleteBut, you know, if they really wanted to make it more gratuitous, he would've added her drinking a latte, wearing birkenstocks with socks, and maybe catching a fish down at the Market. So I guess if he really wanted to appeal to Seattle fans, the tat and Space Needle wasn't really that much.
What...? Oh, you mean sexually gratuitous, not Seattle-y gratuitous? Nevermind. That's too obvious to answer.