Those Weird DC Action Figures

Not an editorial or essay or anything, just a quick comment or two. I honestly read very little of the comics media these days, not out of any highminded purpose but that's just where my life is at these days. I did have a slower-than-usual work day today and felt like checking up on some blogs, and caught a couple, including The Beat, talking about these new DC figures that are anime-inspired. Looking at them, I guess the complaint is that they've put little girl faces to the female superheroes, on top of overtly sexy bodies. Truthfully, when I looked at the pictures, I didn't pay that much attention other than quickly deciding they were hideous. And by that I mean they were hideous designs even if the faces were adult. Just not my thing. I can see people getting pissed at them, but I don't feel like shaking my fist, you know? To me, it's just one example of a medium that, at best, presents most of its female characters in idealized, hard-to-achieve body types in a very narrow range of dimensions. And yes, the male heroes are idealized as well, but in most series there are quite a few other male characters in a much wider range of body types and ages, whereas in superhero comics the females are either hot or not, either slim and shapely and with C-cups or they're old spinsters or young girls who will grow into hotness in due time, or ahead of due time if it seems like it will sell comics. It's not that I don't agree it's a bad thing to import Japanese fetishes here but that I just see it as one system of an industry or industries (comics, action figures, posters, videogames, animation) largely run by horny guys. I mean, I'm no saint, either, but I'm just more a guy to suggest making a better alternative yourself than crying about what's out there.