Comic: Porny fan art is okay, but marginalized redesigns are apparently not

by JeCorey Holder

Look. All I’m saying is no one gets to complain about modern reboots of old characters being redesigned as Black, People of Color, LGBTQ+, or (non-sexualized) women when they’re the ones turning literally everything into a “kawaii desu”-ass Big Tittied Anime Waifu.

Grown-ass adults often depict these redesigns as being HELLA underage girls—but, holy shit, that is another discussion entirely.

Artists will exhibit no small amount of skill in making hyper-sexualized versions of any existing character, or will personify things such as company logos and franchises, and the majority of geek fandoms lap that shit up like honey. They’ll even go as far as giving them whole backstories and little adventures.

But when Disney announces that their live-action version of Ariel will be played by a Black actress, suddenly there’s a problem with “changing the source material.” Huh, strange.

Thin, curvy, Anime redesigns of male horror icons such as Freddie Krueger, Chucky, and Jason Voorhees exist in multiple forms and people will drop actual currency to proudly display their models on their shelves.

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But absolutely none of the many, MANY iterations of Spider-man from Marvel’s confirmed and often explored MULTI-VERSE (there’s even a T-Rex Spider-man) can’t possibly be bisexual? Oh. Okay.

Geek fandoms will spend time, money, and an absurd amount of energy on making elaborate cosplays of scantly-clad big-tittied female versions of established icons, like Pokémon or Star Wars characters, and that is indeed fine and encouraged.

But a character in a franchise can’t possibly be rebooted as a Black woman because it “doesn’t make sense” to them somehow? I see.

It seems to me that fandoms are generally open to creating things they can sexually objectify, but using that same creative energy to produce actual representation of marginalized people in geek media is brushed off as simple “pandering” that’s deserving of vicious derision and think-peices on how The Feminist Agenda™ is changing media for the worse.

The same folks who cry about “SJW liberal pandering” are the same ones who drew Ronald McDonald as a fucking Big Tittied Anime Girl.

I’m so tired.

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