Escher Girls

Float like a butterfly, Sting like a WTF?

A blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, such as how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous ways that sacrifice storytelling.

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cover of The New Avengers vol. 2 #28, with the "A vs X" crossover label, it depicts Luke Cage running toward the audience viewpoint on the right, Hawkeye in the background aiming to the up and right and Spider-Woman in a vacuum-sealed outfit with boobsocks doing... something, with one arm thrust out and the other pulled back, her body is leaning toward her thrust out arm with one leg up and the other bent back under her pelvis, she looks like she just came to a quick stop

Weird Spider-Woman

I was looking at the cover of the comic that was submitted in the post from yesterday, and noticed how awkward Spider-Woman looks. Like she looks mostly okay except one leg

full page panel from New Avengers vol. 2 #28 showing the Marvel heroes rushing forward in a clockwise circle from the 9 o'clock position (with name labels next to them): Blue Marvel, Falcon as Captain America (labeled Captain America), Luke Cage, White Tiger, She-Hulk, Spectrum and Power Man, in the centre is Spider-Man, White Tiger is in a jump kick, She-Hulk is rushing forward with one leg bent foward but it looks like she has no waist or back leg, Spectrum's legs look disconnected from her

Random limbs everywhere

pointless-nonsense submitted:

promo description of the Punisher class/character for Scarlet Blade which shows a CGI white woman with short brown hair facing away from the audience viewpoint, she has green and white armor on her shoulders and upper back and is holding a large gun, the rest of her back is bare including her butt which appears to be totally unclothed except for a small tattoo or piece of material above her butt crack (it's hard to tell), she is wearing long thigh high boots, her back is bent inward over 90 degrees

The Bumisher

I think her class name is a typo, clearly they meant that to be the Bumisher right?

(Art for the Punisher from Scarlet Blade, Aeria Games)

crop of X-Force vol. 1 #50 focusing on the women characters on the back cover who are all in an extreme bent spine pose with tiny waists and puts thrust out looking like tetris blocks

Yet More Worm Girls

You can't see Domino's waist because of that giant gun, but I assume she looks as much like a mantis as Boomer does. Or one of those aliens from MIB.

promo art for the anime DNA squared showing the characters: Karin Aoi (blue haired anime girl in a tight purple jumpsuit and armored white top, Tomoko Saeki (brunette schoolgirl), Junta Momonari (anime guy in schoolboy uniform and spiky redhair), Kotomi Takanashi (dark haired girl in a pink and black dancer spandex outfit) and Ami Kurimoto (schoolgirl with short brown hair), Karin on the left is in a several boobs and butt pose where her butt looks like it's attached to her hip

Boobs and Butt²

As I mentioned last week, my friend is watching DNA² so I've been looking at some of the art again and I saw this picture of Karin and... ouch. Ouch.

cover of grimm fairy tales 58 showing a woman with black hair and glasses in a blue frilly bra/corset top and yellow short shorts holding a sword, she has her butt thrust out and her back bent in a rubbery way and a very long torso

Happy 12th Anniversary to Escher Girls!

It's the 12th anniversary of Escher Girls*! I can't believe it's been so long. o_o

fix of Velocity panel where her torso and back have been filled in so she doesn't look like her body is a tiny bent rubber hose as thin as her neck

Velocity redraw fix

Reblogged from coriwithclass on Tumblr:

cover of "White Widow #7" by Absolute Comics showing a red haired white woman in a skintight boobsocked red and black suit with silver bio armor around her shoulders and hands as well as a black symbiote like goop around her right arm, her left arm has a witchblade type gauntlet on, her right leg looks like it's coming out of her crotch and is extremely en pointe

Spider-Woman from Wish.com

We have Spider-Woman at home, and she's even cooler! She has a venom symbiote, AND the Witchblade!

Also she's a ballerina and her leg comes from her crotch.

cover of Robyn Hood vs. Red Riding Hood comic book from Zenescope Comic, showing Red Riding Hood who has fanged teeth in a skintight red outfit with hood, jumping at or away from Robyn Hood who is in the foreground notching a bow at her, Red Riding hood has her arms spread out and is in a severe boobs and butt pose where her torso is facing our view but her legs and butt are running away from us

Red Riding Hood's like "DON'T YOU DARE SHOOT THAT ARROW UP MY BUTT!"

I don't at all understand what is supposed to be happening here. It's like one of those bar fights where the people involved clearly don't want to fight but don't want to back down so they're jumping backwards while throwing punches and being like "ho

Cover art for the anime DNA squared DVD vol. 4 set showing a masked man with dark skin and purple hair and Kotomi Takanashi, an anime girl with short black hair in a pink and purple dancer's spandex, she is in a boobs and butt pose with her arms in the air, and her back bent 90 degrees with her butt sticking out to the right of her body

TFW Your Butt Really Wants to Escape

My friend started to watch DNA² so we revisited the art and I saw this and ouch, apparently when your DNA gets squared*, it turns you into some sort of rubber snake centaur hybrid.

(Cover of DNA² DVD vol. 4, Central Park Media)

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