The brand-new “Spider-Woman #1” is earning cheers for giving a female superhero a prominent place in the Marvel Universe, and jeers for the prominence of her butt.
A variant cover of the first issue — an alternate cover designed to encourage collectors to buy multiple copies — finds our hero, Jessica Drew, sticking her posterior in the air like she’s auditioning for Nicki Minaj‘s “Anaconda” video. Her costume appears painted on.
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Artist Karine Charlebois wrote on her blog Less Tits N’ Ass, More Kickin’ Ass, that the cover by Milo Manara wasn’t just anatomically improbable, but porny.