cover of Soul Saga #1 comic book with 2 men in armor in the centre and right of the page, in the back left is a blonde woman wearing a V neck bustier with a purple cloth hanging from her chest going down her torso covering the centre of her pelvis, according to the colour, her pelvis continues past her thigh and onward to possibly the bottom of her leg

zoom in of the Soul Saga #1 comic cover focusing on the blonde woman in a red bustier with a large window for her breasts and a light purple cloth hanging from a jewel just under her chest, the cloth runs down her torso to her pelvic region and below, according to the colouring along her leg, her pelvis extends past her thigh and knee and possibly even further down

a splash version of the Soul Saga #1 cover, showing a blonde woman in a red bikini armor outfit with a sash over her crotch, her crotch area goes all the way past her thighs to her knee so just a big wall of flesh going on forever, 2 men stand in front of her in full armor, the cover is extended to her left and hte back cover shows dark coloured forces of aliens and demons and a grey skinned pink haired girl with an angry pout and her large breasts pushed up in a bustier that also just covers her nipples

crop close up of Soul Saga #1 back cover splash showing a pink haired grey skinned woman who is possibly an elf, she is wearing a blue bustier that cuts off just under her breasts, it is strapless and cups only the bottom sides of her breasts, just barely covering her nippls, her breats are larger than her head and pushed up to be globes, the bottom is a blue thong that barely covers her crotch and is pulled up very high, she looks unhappy

cover of Soul Saga #1 variant showing a blonde white woman in a gold strapless bustier that barely covers the bottom of her breasts, she has a sash between her legs covering her crotch and is being held by a large muscular man as she clutches onto him looking scared, her breasts are facing the audience leaning to the right, but her torso is shooting out to the bottom left and her legs aren't bending or moving, just 2 large angular lines going to the bottom left

cover of Soul Saga #1 with Top Cow imprint at the top left corner showing a blonde woman in silver metal bikini armor with full arm and shoulder padding but a thong bikini bottom and top showing her breasts and butt, she's standing in a boobs and butt pose with her (basically bare) bottom facing the audience and her torso and breasts facing the audience where it looks like she's swiveling at the waist and not bending her back at all, she is holding a sword

panel from soul saga #2 showing a blonde woman in a silver bikini armor with thong standing in an extreme boobs and butt pose while she says "Never forget your sacrifice was not in vain. The heavy price paid by your sister and fellow soldiers will not go unnoticed by the Dominion." her butt is facing the audience

Best of Escher Girls 13th Anniversary: Soul Saga Extravaganza

I was going through the archives to find posts for the "best of Escher Girls" anniversary special and ended up finding a lot of "Soul Saga" submissions from the very beginning of this blog (2011) that I had to fix up and source and I found an extended version of one of the covers so I thought this would be a perfect collection to showcase, especially since a lot of people didn't see the posts back when they were put up.

So, first off, we have the infamous "neverending pelvis" cover that started the tag. It's... very confusing and kind of horrifying. But also, there's an extended version of the cover, featuring a very angry and pouty grey elf(?) girl who, understandably, doesn't look pleased to be squeezed into a bustier 20x too small for her and apparently superglued to her nipples. At least her crotch isn't being sucked into a singularity, so that's something right.

Then we have another variant with a blonde princess(?) being saved by a guy which looks less like he's saving a person and more like he just stole a life-size statue given her lower torso and legs looking more like a statue base than legs. Also why does everybody in this space fantasy future only wear little cheese triangles that cover the bottoms of their breasts. I guess they're future space bras with special anti-grav tech.

And finally, we have warrior space princess(?) who apparently cannot fight without having her butt facing the enemy, and whose powers emanate from her breast and butt flesh because I guess that's why she has to wear the little battle pasties and a painfully pulled up metal(?) battle thong? Ouch. So painful to even think about. Also cold.

This sci-fi future seems very uncomfortable for women.

Anyway, the links in the above link to the original posts if you want to see those too. I hope everybody enjoyed this retrospective on some of the earliest stuff posted on Escher Girls and thank you for reading! (I can't believe it's already been 13 years)

(Variant Covers of Soul Saga #1, panel from Soul Saga #2, Top Cow Productions & Image Comics)

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