>>91543544Girls started pretending they were anything close to a substantial chunk of the comic purchasing market.
Publishers either believed the mythical untapped female market exists and was primed or wanted to kind of fake it until they made that potential substantial chunk of increased profit.
Cheesecake was deemed offensive material even though less than a foot away a person could pick up a manga like Tetragrammaton Labyrinth which is borderline loli guro, sold in a Barns & Nobel, in broad daylight.
You can pick up some real cheesecake shit like Triage X or a dozen others like it.
Darkhorse made another re-release of the Ghost in the Shell omnibus because of the damn movie and they still censors it to this day, needlessly because it is right next to several large volumes of Dance of the Vampire Bund.
So the publishers tell the Cheesecake artists to fuck off so that they can hire """"artists"""" like Babs Tarr to draw heroines as vapid flatchested young adults in an effort to appeal to a female market.
Not pictured:
>Hellcat>Mockingbird>Carol Danvers>Riri WilliamsEven New52 Poison Ivy and Powergirl were obscenely conservatively dressed for what those characters represent.
