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*I* get so tired of hearing comic book writers like Ron Marz making comments like:
The cover image from the issue in question is here. The variant cover is here.
Gee, Mr. Marz, maybe if someone took the tits and ass off the cover of your book, people would stop talking about it being a tits&ass book? The fact that the cover used to market your work regularly features one or more woman clad in garments that are improbable at best due to the forces exerted by gravity on the female body and regularly leave the women's asses hanging out might possibly have something to do with how people characterize your work.
Comic book writers work in a visual medium. Strangely, that inclines their audience towards judging a book by the visual presented on the cover. So either ditch the T&A covers or live with the T&A rep - this ain't Tolstoy you're selling. Playing the "I wasn’t interested in writing stories that were excuses for Sara’s clothes to fall off" card while your editors are putting out shit like this gets you no sympathy from me.
Either you support how the book is presented or you don't but blaming your potential audience for reacting negatively to the exact impression that these covers are calculated to create - namely "ooh, lots of mostly naked women inside" - is chickenshit.
I get so tired of hearing of the sniping comments about "Witchblade" being a “T&A” book; always from ill-informed dopes who haven’t looked past the cover of the book in, say, the last five years.
The cover image from the issue in question is here. The variant cover is here.
Gee, Mr. Marz, maybe if someone took the tits and ass off the cover of your book, people would stop talking about it being a tits&ass book? The fact that the cover used to market your work regularly features one or more woman clad in garments that are improbable at best due to the forces exerted by gravity on the female body and regularly leave the women's asses hanging out might possibly have something to do with how people characterize your work.
Comic book writers work in a visual medium. Strangely, that inclines their audience towards judging a book by the visual presented on the cover. So either ditch the T&A covers or live with the T&A rep - this ain't Tolstoy you're selling. Playing the "I wasn’t interested in writing stories that were excuses for Sara’s clothes to fall off" card while your editors are putting out shit like this gets you no sympathy from me.
Either you support how the book is presented or you don't but blaming your potential audience for reacting negatively to the exact impression that these covers are calculated to create - namely "ooh, lots of mostly naked women inside" - is chickenshit.