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Tom, given books like Avengers Arena (and previously Academy) and the various X-Men teens, do you think its bad that artists are unable to draw female characters without an extremely large bosom? Like, unless gaining superpowers makes all females physically mature to insane proportions at a lower age, there are some serious problems with the artists hired for books starring teen characters.
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There’s some overall truth in what you say in terms of the depiction of women in comics, but it’s not limited to teens by any stretch. But it’s artist-specific–I don’t think that you can say that there isn’t anybody who does this well. And for that matter, there’s not a human being in the world who’s proportioned like any Marvel character, regardless of gender. Super heroes are, by nature, exaggerations of the physical form. That exaggeration can be done poorly, or insensitively–but it isn’t always done so.
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