Swimsuit Specials

I have heard that Marvel and other publishers bring out 'Swimsuit Specials' from time to time. What's more, I just found a torrent for this too.

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(Surprise, surprise! It even has an Image Comics swimsuit special. O_o\)
Have any of you ever seen one of those in real life?
Oh, and...
The Marvel series semms to have stopped at 1995. Do you know whether it still exists?

Swimsuit (and sometimes Lingerie) issues are a long forgotten tradition from that dreaded period of comic book history called "the 90's". Nobody does that anymore.

And why exactly is that? Call me a n00b, call me green, but I don't live in America (it's all the way here in Asia, the land of manga and manwha!). Therefore, I'm sort of at a disadvantage as far as American comics are concerned. Care to enlighten me?

You see, all comics in the 90's were meant to be beat off to.  Once publishers started getting serious, less and less beat off material was present.  Now people have to settle for manga, which is still censored when brought to the US.  This is why 4chan was invented.

Not to mention that most good artists weren't interested about lending their pencils for what was nothing more than material for sex crazed teenagers and compulsive. Swimsuit/Lingerie issues had max 2 or 3 good pics, and the rest was crap. It's indeed a good thing that the Comic Industry distanced itself from the dark age of Liefeld slave clones.

>>1 It even has an Image Comics swimsuit special

How's that surprising? Image was pretty much the cesspool that spawned the 90s comics slump. The rock nowadays, though.

Waitaminit! I thought Image was responsible for revitalizing the industry, with their encouragement for individual work as far as artists were concerned. And what's wrong with Liefeld? He was a crappy writer, I admit, but a great artist, no? O_O?

>>6
Image perpetuated the slump. They focused on flashy artwork, variant covers, better paper quality which lead to higher cover prices. Comics require good art AND good story which none of them had. Image overall didn't help comic creators either instead they just created mini Marvel and DC studios and hired talent to do all the work while they raked in the profits. Eventually Jim Valentino and Jim Lee started helping creators create and own their characters and stories and changed Image Comics' public perception no thanks to the other guys though.

Of course I don't blame the slump solely on Image. Marvel and DC deserve most of the credit.

>>6
... Rob Liefeld a great artist? No, most certainly not. Terrible anatomy, stupid character design gimmicks (IE: Glowing eyes, ultra flat weapons, pouches and cracked swords everywhere, etc) ignorance on how to use perpective, impossible shadows, crapping (oh wait, "adding detail") the artwork, ripping off better artists (didn't they fire a manga artist in Japan for that reason?), crappy working ethics,  the gritting teeth, etc.

But undoubtly the saddest thing about Liefeld is that unlike most artists that get better and better with practice, he seems to get worse and worse instead. His first works at Marvel/DC were actually good and showed some promise. The other day I grabbed a recent issue of Teen Titans he did, and holy fucking shit...

>>8
I agree hundred percent. I'm surprised he is still getting work after the messy split from Image, fucking up his part on Heroes Reborn, and losing investors' money with his lame ass titled comic companies, Extreme Studios and Maximum Press.

>>9
Was it ever revealead why the rest of the Image guys gave him the boot? I've heard some pretty shitty stories abot his ill-doings on Image.

Holy...! I had no idea... O__O;
I only saw a few very old comics of Liefeld. So, what about the current situation, then? Where exactly does the comics industry stand now? I apparently have been fed a diet of pre-90s comics by some stupid publisher, to my greatest regret. (They actually have Buscema's issues of Conan in print RIGHT NOW!!)

>>8japan

If I think I know, somebody's manga got pulled off the shelves because they copied the same poses (and possibly page layout) of another. I think it was Boys over Flowers copying Slam Dunk

Fortunately, the industry got over it. Not by its own volition, of course, but because the people finally got annoyed by the onslaught of varian holo-foil covers and generic extreme "blood-something-force" comics and the sales took a disastrous dive. Hell, Marvel even had to declare bankrupcity back in the day, which for a marvel zombie like me was quite dishertening, to say the least. But as I mentioned, the industry managed to recover, and IMO the art and writing in general is better than ever.

As much as Image and its clones sucked, it did bring in an era of creative expression through trying to be "cool, extreme" etc and endless copycatting.  Which is a lot like the diversity found in manga- there are lots of failures in manga, but only the best ones shine through to the top.  The problem with Image is that it was a consistent plateau of crap before Alan Moore and the post 90's period.

THE IMAGE CLONE PROJECT:
Todd McFarlane -> Greg Capulco
Marc Silvestri -> Michael Turner -> David Finch
Jim Lee -> (early) J.Scott Campbell -> Travis Charest
Rob Liefeld -> Mrayat Mychaels -> Ian Churchill -> Dan Farga -> error: paper-feed error:

I could look up my "Deathmate" collection for more info, but...I think I'd rather not...

Hmm... I have yet to see Greg Capulo's work anywhere. What did he pencil?

Greg Capullo was one of the better artists in 90's (worked on X-Force) and then he jumped to Spawn and basically copied McFarlane's style. He probably did it for the money and McFarlane probably imposed his style on him after he got too lazy to draw Spawn himself and started buying baseballs. Unfortunately he stayed on to write Spawn. Rob Liefeld did the same to an even more "EXTREME" example.

Word. For all the alleged "freedom" they brought to the industry, some of the Image founders were really abusive with their artists. Thankfully Image has changed quite a lot, specially now that Erik Larsen is in control.

Capullo is a funny last name

Larsen is quite the man. Pencilled the X-Men a while back, if I'm not mistaken.

i hate you monstpace.

Can somebody post some links to sites that have some samples of this swimsuit galleries.
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE

capullo is a good artist that angel medina guy or whatever his name is sucks balls his ancles look like tiny twigs supporting huge humps off meat that resemble thighs.

>>23
Seconded

Lol
Witchblade swimsuit special - she covers more than she normally does
Lady Death - No difference, she's just at the beach
Marvel - Psylocke is already in a one-piece, and most of the females wear skintight latex anyway...

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Please, don't pay for this stuff.