The first one is more true to DC's "creative vision".

HailRobonia: I prefer Diet Catwoman over Catwoman Zero.

They're both better than those monstrosities "New Catwoman", and "Crystal Catwoman".

Needs more pouches.

Not enough pouches.

TheOriginalEd: Eh, you say sexist parody, I say foreshortening
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Would you say that person is 90% legs because thats all you can see? no, but the author of this article would. Honestly the redone image isnt any better.. Catwoman's just rotated a few degrees.

I agree it's a weird angle but people don't seem to understand perspective that are biatching so much.

Corvus: I agree it's a weird angle but people don't seem to understand perspective that are biatching so much.

Or they have a grade school child's understanding of anatomy.

ProfessorOhki: Stratohead: Oh_Enough_Already: ZOMG! A female character sexually portrayed to appeal to the medium's almost exclusively male fan base!

Next thing you know they'll start doing this in porno.

what farking decade do you live in? Women/Girls now make up almost half of Fandom in general... close to 65-70% in Anime/Manga. This is a mainstream comic, not a porno, and frankly the medium and the fans deserve better.

Yes, but a large number those particular fans are reading books without any female characters...

There's still a large niche for "Sexy" comic women. Frank Cho is coming out with a collection of women he has drawn, Franz Franzetta remains a hot seller, and, hell all of Zenescope Entertainment is T and A. No need for plot or even original ideas with them. Lady Death and Vampirella, of course, as well. There's a guy at the local shop who always, always buys every single variant and edition of the Lady Death stuff, even the statues. What is disturbing is that it is pretty obvious that he masturbates to this statue or the comics.

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There needs to be a Brazzers logo in there.

Stratohead: it's poor design, its anatomically IMPROBABLE if not impossible

Way back when Tomb Raider first came out my favorite description I heard of Laura Croft was "anatomically unfeasible".

Aw geeze not this shiat again.

"I'm not good enough to work for DC or Marvel, so I'm just gonna complain that they're sexist. That'll show'em."

Stratohead: close to 65-70% in Anime/Manga.

In certain age groups. A huge percentage of that is girls who are amazingly addicted to yaoi, which (amusingly, when related to the complaints about Catwoman and what not) feature some very entertainingly unrealistic gay sex and romance.

But that's okay, because those fans aren't the ones complaining about this sort of thing. Unsurprisingly, much of it originates from two crowds: 1) Social Justice Wank groups on tumblr, LJ, etc, and, 2) Indie web comic artists who are very angry that DC doesn't produce a product that they think DC should produce.

karlandtanya: It's a comic, right? Isn't cartoonish depictions of of the characters sorta the point?

Trying to make it realistic kinda defeats the purpose and just causes problems like this
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Yeah, not to mention that when this first came up I went and dug up some gymnast/acrobat pics where they're completely bent over backwards, doing exactly what the critics were saying was impossible. Selina is a super hero, if a non-super hero can do it in real life, her doing it in a comic book is okay with me.

/blah blah male gaze, blah blah objectification, blah blah unrealistic male anatomy in comics ISN'T THE SAME, etc etc

TheDirtyNacho: I don't think the new one is better. The pose makes it look like she's scooting along the ground rather than leaping through the page.

The first one would be fine, were it not for the bulbous right buttock and left thigh that appears to curve upward.

But not to throw too many stones, having photographed more than a few magazine covers I can say that fitting a concept to a format like a cover - vertical, with logos, titles, barcodes etc - is often a serious challenge and results in compromises.

My main problem with the original cover is that the color selection really downplayed the depth of field, so it looked very "flat".