A comic look at superhero sexism

Check this out – it's both hilarious and brilliantly disturbing - artist Kevin Bolk's re-imagining of The Avengers, with the male superheroes depicted in the way female superheroes are usually drawn . Bolt was prompted to draw the parody after seeing the promotional image for the new Avengers movie, writing a couple of months ago that it "would be awesome if only Black Widow wasn't in a ridiculous and impractical 'look at my ass' pose. It just seems unfair that everyone else gets to be heroic and she's just 'Ohai! Pin-Up!'" Now it's the Hulk and his male friends who are arse-forwards, in an image which really does, as Tom Davenport puts it, highlight the "sexism in comic culture" . I'm with io9 , who are hoping that "Bolk and other artists remake all the other male supers who are deserving of their own pin-up shots". Although the Bolk image does rather remind me of some of the classic bad science fiction book covers from days of yore – perhaps instead of hoping that female superheroes shouldn't be depicted in pin-up poses, we should be campaigning for men to show more muscles. For "look at my ass" poses to be shared between the sexes. Thoughts?