THE HUNTING OF THE SACK

 Ball-busting courtesy of the New Huntress, whoever she is.

VERONICA MARS BETTY

 Though Betty knows judo, Veronica has a blask belt in Nasty-Fu.

GOLD AND SILVER SADISM #6

 Attack 13 shows another "innocent transgression" on the part of Yasuda as he accidentally burrows his way under Ginka's skirts. The resultant pounding takes place off panel.

PERFECT PULCHRITUDE

 Nearly no one knows the name of artist Barry Blair today, but he was all over the place during the eighties black-and-white comics boom, and this cover to BODY COUNT-- a spoof of monster/slasher films-- successfully gives the POV characters a look of overdone drama, purely for comic effect.

I've already done one Catwoman entry but I can't pass up the comic that not only crossed her over with fellow Golden Age icon Lois Lane, but also brought the villainess back to the DC mainstream after an absence of many years.

WHIP IT GOOD

 The original Tiger Girl enjoyed a long run in FIGHT COMICS but never became as popular as the same company's Sheena. Her creators armed the heroine with the unusual weapon of a whip, but this didn't really add any zest to the usually dull fight scenes.

Curiously, the writer(s) also gave the heroine a magic stone that could boost her strength temporarily, so she could break bonds or throw people around briefly. But the gimmick was rarely used and made little difference overall.

SLAVEMASTER WAGES

 I'm not sure if the manga currently trainslated as CHAINED SOLDIER (to avoid the use of the touchy word "slave" in the original manga title) has any great depth yet or not. But it does a new gimmick with respect to the many "master-servant" narratives seen in manga.

Usually there's some filial or societal bond that requires the servant's fealty to the master, as with DANCE IN THE VAMPIRE BUND. But in MATO SEIHEI NO SLAVE, the invasion of extra-dimensional monsters, who can only be beaten back by female power-holders, has resulted in all men becoming second class citizens. Among the many super-powers wielded by the female warriors is the ability to transform male "slaves" into huge bestial servants with which to help defeat the monsters.

However, there's a price levied every time one of the warriors calls upon this power, for they're psychically forced to yield their feminine favors to whatever man they enslaved. It's not something that the male "slave" forces on the females; the "slave wages" are baked into the use of the power. So far in my reading, the male POV character Yuuki has been transformed a half dozen times, and his "master" is forced to give him some token of her sexual favors: kissing, stripping, sitting on his face.

Oddly, though Yuuki does not seem to be a masochist, in one instance the "wage" consists of some CBT treatment from Kyouka. Unless she's only stomping him because the compulsion has worn off.

TORTURE GUARDIIN'

 Months ago, I cited a panel or two from a goofy manga called TORTURE CLUB GIRLS AFTER SCHOOL. Since I last looked at the series, it got wrapped up thusly: all four of the girls with a thing for the main hero confess to him. But he won't simply choose one of them, since he likes attention from all four. This leads them to perform low-intensity comical tortures on him, presumably for the foreseeable future.

A FIST IS JUST A FIST

 From LINDA #4.

PERFECT PULCHRITUDE

 Probably posted two of these three Nick Cardy pieces before, but they bear repeating.

AN INNOCENTLY SADISTIC BROAD

I've seen this gag a couple of times before on live-action TV-- "female not-so-innocently plugs something in and electrocutes male working on the electrical system"-- particularly on MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. But another "dumb blonde" got there first.

HELLER IN TAN SKIRT

 From the debut of female "Hellcat" Heller in one of DC;s war books.

PERFECT PULCHRITUDE

 Since the last two posts were so heavy on DC material, here's stuff from other companies.

First appearance of Phoenix.

Pin-up page from AVENGERS ANNUAL #1, with The Scarlet Witch taking advantage of her top-heavy talents.

I didn't like any of the covers for JUMBO COMICS, the berth where Sheena of the Jungle got her start, but here's a better than average splash panel.

Of course there's no celebrating good art girls without inviting Will Eisner for one of probably many visits.

Headlights alert.

Hand job alert.

And in the first appearance of the "Josie" bunch in ARCHIE'S PALS AND GALS #23, we see that Melody is more active asleep than awake, which probably indicated some deep psychological desires, in addition to the artist's desire to make money off cheesecake.

PERFECT PULCHRITUDE

 As I've mentioned in a previous post, DC's softcover collection COVERGIRLS has been a negative inspiration to me, since its collection of good art girls is so mediocre. But here are the only selections in that book that made my cut here.

PERFECT PULCHRITUDE

 I have no idea how far I'll get with this project, but it recently occurred to me to ask myself: what are the best depictions of feminine pulchritude in comics art, AS ART? By that I mean not just covers, but also "splash panels" and full pages of sequential art whose craft and composition is good enough to get across some major kinetic or dramatic feeling. Panel-art which includes captions and dialogue may also be able to tap into more abstract values as well.

For instance, the cover of DETECTIVE #211 is a very dull Catwoman-cover.

But the inside splash panel to "The Jungle Cat-Queen" is one of the best depictions of Green and Purple Catwoman, even if you have to believe she has access to a tiger as big as a musk ox, given the way she's riding this one.

Other examples in this series don't necessarily have to be "femmes formidables"-- though they will comprise most of the selections-- but pulchritude does mean "beauty," so no Broom-Hilda or Lucy Van Pelt, delightful as they might be in other ways.

GOLD AND SILVER SADISM #5

 "Attack 9" in the "Gold and Silver" series shows Yasuda being zapped and stomped by Serizawa, one of Erika's many protectors. Sort of a secondary sadism, as it were.