Remember that Heroes for Hentai remix I did? The one where I re-clothed, removed spooge, removed tentacle-fondling, and re-assigned race to the Heroes for Hire? The ones Joe Quesada said people forgot kicked ass?" That might be because it looked like "lick ass."
The point was to show how something gross and over the top not for any one reason, but all the various reasons together, could be taken differently with a few reasonable changes. That it could be taken as it we were told it was meant.
Now, DC gives us the flip-and-twist: the Flash, who often gets his ass kicked, getting owned by a tentacle monster with added vagina dentata.

Funny, while he's on his back, which is squicky, he's holding on to the tentacles, he looks enraged. He looks like he's fighting.
Just as I'm curious as to how Marvel editorial approved Heroes for Hentai, I'm wondering how and why DC editorial passed this cover. Hilariously, the Doom Cooze doesn't even look attached to the rest of the...whatever that is. It looks like a Doom Cooze floating in front of a rock.
But let's look at it Heroes for Hire pre-remix stylee, shall we? Put poor Flash in an attitude of helplessness, add some slobber, put slobber on Flash, make sure theres some slobber somewhere it's extra squicky.

I didn't even rip the clothes or have Flash bleeding. The only thing missing now is the bog-standard "Yamete..." from eromanga.
The lesson here is: no matter who's being slobbered on by giant genitalia, it looks bad. It's not equal. It's equally wrong.
ETA: I did the illustrations for a middle/high school sex-ed curriculum last year, and I can say with complete confidence that is exactly what a vagina and labia look like. I am completely gobsmacked that DC editorial passed this. I eagerly await the first joke about how they got it right considering they've never seen a real woman.
Maybe it's that they think the parts between a girl's legs look like a yoyo in spandex.
(Image found via The "TUF" Beat)
The point was to show how something gross and over the top not for any one reason, but all the various reasons together, could be taken differently with a few reasonable changes. That it could be taken as it we were told it was meant.
Now, DC gives us the flip-and-twist: the Flash, who often gets his ass kicked, getting owned by a tentacle monster with added vagina dentata.

Funny, while he's on his back, which is squicky, he's holding on to the tentacles, he looks enraged. He looks like he's fighting.
Just as I'm curious as to how Marvel editorial approved Heroes for Hentai, I'm wondering how and why DC editorial passed this cover. Hilariously, the Doom Cooze doesn't even look attached to the rest of the...whatever that is. It looks like a Doom Cooze floating in front of a rock.
But let's look at it Heroes for Hire pre-remix stylee, shall we? Put poor Flash in an attitude of helplessness, add some slobber, put slobber on Flash, make sure theres some slobber somewhere it's extra squicky.

I didn't even rip the clothes or have Flash bleeding. The only thing missing now is the bog-standard "Yamete..." from eromanga.
The lesson here is: no matter who's being slobbered on by giant genitalia, it looks bad. It's not equal. It's equally wrong.
ETA: I did the illustrations for a middle/high school sex-ed curriculum last year, and I can say with complete confidence that is exactly what a vagina and labia look like. I am completely gobsmacked that DC editorial passed this. I eagerly await the first joke about how they got it right considering they've never seen a real woman.
Maybe it's that they think the parts between a girl's legs look like a yoyo in spandex.
(Image found via The "TUF" Beat)


Comments
(I mean, how do we know his pants aren't down?)
You and Lea are both so full of win.
Flash: Noooooooooo! Not a Vagina! Please No!
So sorry to anyone whose dinner I ruined.
/files under, songs not to be sung in public...
Well .... fix it!
but this does reframe other wrongness about the other piece for me, in that where does it place the naive male observer in relationship to those women? i'm ashamed to admit that i'd not really even taken in the impact of how it informed young male readers about the male role and the relationship to women. looking at this and the vilification (the traditional vilification) of the 'female' role in this set made me realize that.
Is what you're saying, "This made me understand why the other cover bothered people."?
http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040
Great remix too ^^
That was hilarious!
*incoherent laughter*
This things must provoke laughter, and I'm happy to be the Clopin.
It's not any ONE fo the things on the H4H cover, it the conjunction of them.
It's not creepy in the same way as the Heroes for Hire one of course, I think the more realistic style of the art here doesn't allow for the full impact of quiet submission.
And I'm sure this was painted with full knowledge of the Heroes for Hire debacle, and with absolute intent. How could it be otherwise?
I think I found it! ;)
I had the exact same thought about this cover and you actually went and remixed it. Thank you for that. Well done!
*choke*
Mary Jane!?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Thenk yew!
You see, the Flash is my fanboy comfort comic. I buy it pretty much no matter what. And there I was staring at The Fastest Man Alive getting consumed by Vagina Dentata con Chthulu.
So I ask myself, "Am I actually going to actually be walking out of Austin Books with this in 60 days?"
Fuck. Me.
As a side note, if men are supposed to be so afraid of a vagina dentata, why is it they're so fond of BJs? Paging Dr. Freud....
In any case, genitals, while lovely in certain, um, situations, are still by far the best way to pull an "eew, gross" from most people, especially out of context in an extreme closeup. I would post one of my many close-up photos of male and female genitalia to prove the point, but that may be too gross for some folk.
-chip!
(* yes, yes, yes, our genitalia are all beautful flowers and marvels of nature, but my pappy's peener scared the shit out of me as a kid when I saw it and I thought it was the grossest thing ever and I wasn't even raised to be shamed by my body)
I think that The Flash needs to be enjoying the tentacle poontang more in the remix. It points up the absurdity of the Heroes For Hire cover, and the absurdity of this cover as well.
This is yet another manifestation of the Fanboy tension regarding women.
-hemroids
-bum hair
-snot
-poop
-dangling eyeballs
-internal organs on the outside
-tongues
-open sores (specifically on male and female genitalia)
-bad teeth/gingivitis
-tourist t-shirt
-big gut
-moles
-loose skin
-lower back tattoos
-nose/ear hairs
-rib cages
I was laughing at the cover, the remix, and the comments, but your list made me laugh so hard I cried!!! BWWWWAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!
As for getting approved by editors, honestly after seeing what appears on children's television here (Australia) nowdays, I'm not surprised. It's like people have been brainwashed not look at genitals to the extent that don't recognize the shapes, only the location.
I knew Barry was fast, but this . . .
lolotehe: no, it would only tighten, but in a pulsing manner. eventually it would loosen, but not before one final thrashing.