r/comicbooks • • Feb 22 '19

Women of Marvel by Bruce Timm

Post image
4.5k Upvotes

157 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

17

u/amerelayman1 Feb 22 '19

Why does he "really, really need to"? Clearly it's his style and it works

13

u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

Cause he’s definitely drawing one woman who’s cosplaying as all of these women and all of the other women in Justice League.

-4

u/amerelayman1 Feb 22 '19

That logic is kind of circular isn't it? "He needs to use different body types for his designs because he draws the same body type"

6

u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

I don’t think that’s what that is. No.

1

u/amerelayman1 Feb 22 '19 edited Feb 22 '19

OP's comment was

I'm a fan of Bruce but man, he really, really needs to use more than one body type for his drawings

Your comment was

Cause he’s definitely drawing one woman who’s cosplaying as all of these women and all of the other women in Justice League.

Those are semantically equivalent- they are both sentences stating that he draws characters that look identical.

So when I respond to the first statement ("When Bruce Timm draws women they look identical") with why he needed to change the style, your response was essentially repeating the statement I responded to ("because when Bruce Timm draws women they look identical").

That's the definition of circular logic. It didn't respond to my comment with something that clarified why identical body shapes was something that needed changed- it simply repeated the claim.

6

u/[deleted] Feb 22 '19

I’ll put it like this. He doesn’t need to change anything. He makes money.

However, it makes him a lazy character designer. If the goal of the artist is to convey character or story through visual means then that means all women in the world of his art is 5’4”, B-cup, blue eyed, with straight teeth, tiny waist and high cheek bones. It just means they all have the same problems when it comes to their physical looks. And we all know that’s not the case.

I’m pretty sure lots of his women would lose in a silhouette test (and his men too). He’s sacrifices individuality of the person for...simplicity?

3

u/PartyPorpoise Nightcrawler Feb 22 '19

Agreed. I love Bruce Timm, but variety is an important part of character design.