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Monday, October 20, 2003

referrals review 

Posted by Nick : 4:44 PM

To the person who conducted this search I can only recommend that you check out Avengers #71, on sale last week. Or you can just view the scandalous pages here.

Here are my thoughts on this issue, as I posted them to the West Coast Avengers Mailing List:
There isn't anyone else out there that has a problem with this because it's *too* graphic? There's been sex and sexual references (the easy ones: She-Hulk/Starfox, Wanda/Simon, and the Janet naked and strapped to a machine cover in the the 180s) in the Avengers before, but never anything like the slightly off panel depiction of Janet having an orgasm.... and they drew her breasts way too big!

This scene just needlessly graphic. Wanda and Simon falling into bed was an example of doing a scene just like this that was alluring yet tasteful. Kurt made his point without having to show the specific sex act. On the other hand, this scene is just... too much information. It's needlessly graphic to prove what... that Jan and Hank are lonely?

Here's an exercise. Read the three pages once through, and then read page 1 and page 3. The story flows just as well, and the exact same point gets across. We know they're having/just had sex, and if the timing is fuzzy just imagine that Jan's first speech bubble ends with some periods ( "Hank no, not again.....!"). What does this prove? That page two is totally unneccessary in the plot, and is just there to... make a joke about how superheros have sex?

Any truth to the rumor that the Thing is hard all over? I mean really all over.
This issue really was the last straw, and I've quit reading the Avengers. It was the first time that I ever, in 10 years of collecting comic books, I left a comics store without purchasing the newest issue of Avengers.
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