[Source: Vox] Last month, Marvel presented the variant cover for Spider-Woman #1
which featured the superhero in an overtly-sexualized, anatomically
silly pose that had her presenting her lady bits to the city below. On
Tuesday, the company announced that it had canceled two covers that Milo
Manara, the artist responsible for the sexualized Spider-Woman, was
slated to draw.
Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1 and Thor #2 were both supposed to have Manara variant covers — collector's items that are rarer than standard covers — which will now be created by other artists, Newsrama reported.
Manara is known for his erotic comics. And the argument here isn't
whether or not Manara should be allowed to draw his erotic art. The
question is why Marvel, a colossal comic company that has started to
position itself as a diversity and gender equality leader in the industry, commissioned Manara to create the Spider-Woman cover if what it was touting was gender equality.
Thor #2 is significant, because that's the second issue featuring the history-making female Thor, which Marvel has been touting since this past summer. If the female Thor was drawn in a similar, overtly-sexualized fashion to how Spider-Woman was drawn, the company would have likely faced the same backlash — if not an even greater one.
Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1 and Thor #2 were both supposed to have Manara variant covers — collector's items that are rarer than standard covers — which will now be created by other artists, Newsrama reported.
Thor #2 is significant, because that's the second issue featuring the history-making female Thor, which Marvel has been touting since this past summer. If the female Thor was drawn in a similar, overtly-sexualized fashion to how Spider-Woman was drawn, the company would have likely faced the same backlash — if not an even greater one.
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