Marvel is soon to release Spider-Woman #1, the inaugural comic in the "recently announced new 'Spider-Woman' ongoing series from Dennis Hopeless and Greg Land." That's pretty exciting, right?
Except here is one variant cover for the comic designed by Milo Manara:
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There are so many things wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin. Suffice it to say that Marvel evidently still doesn't give a shit about alienating feminist readers.
[H/T to my friend Mark, who saw it at io9.]
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