Frank Miller's Roboflop

Frank Miller's Roboflop

alienheadtransplant submitted:

I got the Robocop collection on Blu-ray for Xmas, so I can’t really complain at getting Robocop 3 for free, but reading up on how it really put off Frank Miller on working with Hollywood, I encountered a review of his perfect comic version where all the stuff dropped from Robocop 2 was shoved back it. Much of it seems to boil down to blowing Office Lewis’s clothes off at every opportunity but the high-point is Dr. Love (inexplicably re-named Dr. Faxx in the movie) who apparently likes to pose whilst working:

I can’t think of any scenario in the history of the universe where a doctor would be posing like this while talking about doctor stuff, much less wearing that outfit.

Panels like this are a good example of why the argument that male and female characters in comic books are idealized equally is wrong. 

Idealized as power fantasy != idealized as sexual fantasies.

In this case, she’s not even a superheroine, she’s just a doctor.  So we have regular civilian professional != sexual fantasy.

When we regularly see stuff like random male scientists dressing like this and posing like that (NSFW) while telling Batman about the condition of an Arkham inmate, then there might be an argument to be made.