2023: Week 28 - DC: 5 - Marvel: 0

Covers for: Knight Terrors - Catwoman by Leila Leiz & Veronica Gandino; Knight Terrors - Wonder Woman by Jae Lee & June Chung; Knight Terrors - Punchline by Gleb Melnikov; Hawkgirl #1 by Nahuelpan & Lucas; and Batman: White Knights - Generation Joker #3 by Sean Murphy & Dave Stewart. 

10/30 - Hitting the bottom

If the last couple weeks were not all that great in terms of sexy covers, this last Wednesday hit rock bottom. There is not a single cover that one can confidently say it's a sexy cover, at least not  without some qualification. A fact to be sadly noticed is that after last week's Mary Jane bonanza, Marvel didn't make our selection. A comic book house famous for some of the most sexiest characters ever - the Scarlett Witch, Dazzler, Dagger, Crystal, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Gamora, the list goes on and on - couldn't provide a single cover for this week's roundup.

DC, on the other hand, provides three covers; but all of them featuring female characters covered from head to toes in Kevlar-like bodysuits - even the usually more undressed Wonder Woman. Katana, on the cover of BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS ANNUAL #1, looks quite boobalicious, although Dexter Soy and his collaborators didn't resist the old sword/phallus semiotic substitution. Freud seems to be alive and kicking in this post-modern politicaly correct cultural atmosphere. Top marks goes to the best cover of the week - DCEASED #6 - that boasts three wonderfully bodacious anti-heroines (although one of them is a zombified Catwoman). Harley's costume's decoration marks merit a special reference, as they help our subconscious to substitute Quinn's nipples for the enticing star and diamond.

Closing this week's meager selection comes Image's KICK-ASS #18 whose cover dares to bare some cleavage, although in a bloody scenario that somehow seems to lessen the erotic impact of the cover illustration, when it should do the exact opposite.

Covers for: DCeased by Mark Brooks; Wonder Woman Annual by Tyler Khirkham & Arif Prianto; Batman and the Outsiders Annual by Dexter Soy, with Arif Prianto & Riley Rossmo; Kick-Ass by Marcelo Frusin.

Celebrating Wonder Woman Day

On October 21, 1941, DC's ALL-STAR  COMICS #8 hit the stands. In its pages was featured the first ever appearance of Wonder Woman, a comics character that needs no introduction, wherever you are in the world, even if you've never read a single one of her adventures. That's the kind of icon she became throughout the years. And so, October 21 is Wonder Woman Day, despite the opportunistic and commercial decision of DC to have it celebrated on June 3rd, 2017, due to the premiere of Patti Jenkin's film. Here, in this humble abode to sexy comics covers, I choose to celebrate it with eight of the sexiest covers ever from WW seventy-eight year history. One could argue that any cover featuring Wonder Woman is a sexy cover just by having Wonder Woman in it. I won't debate it. However, when one lays eyes on George Pérez's detailed artwork, or Irv Novick's particular way of drawing the most sensuous Wonder Woman, or even Brian Bolland's celebration of the female form in every drawing, one knows one's entering an all-new ball game.

And, since we are on the approach to Halloween, I picked up some covers with not only supernatural and horrific elements - by no means an exaustive selection - but also with sexy supernatural and horrific elements. And among those, what can top tentacles? Obviously, this is neither the occasion, nor the place to tackle a theory of tentacle erotica, so suffice it to observe that through Wonder Woman's publishing history (and since the get go, thanks to William Moulton Marston's proclivities) bondage in a way or another has featured prominently and, since the mid-seventies, it was a major element to appear in cover illustrations. When bondage was achieved through tentacles, instead of ropes, the erotic effect was that much more intense, as the following covers well certify. Enjoy.

Covers by: Michael Netzer & Vince Colletta; George Pérez; Brian Bolland; Irv Novick; Gray Morrow; Eduardo Barreto, Brian Bolland; and George Pérez.