From: [d--n--m] at [magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu] (Dave Van Domelen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info,rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: The Bad Girl Art Index: March Previews
Date: 29 Feb 1996 19:23:16 GMT

(I decided to split this off from the Natterings.  Feedback appreciated.)

The Bad Girl Art (BGA) Report for Diamond Previews: March 1996

     See below for an explanation of the BGA Index.

PREMIER COMICS

ACCLAIM:

     Baywatch ad, Pamela Anderson in a swimsuit.  Index = 4

DARK HORSE:

     Barb Wire ad, Barb in leather bearing many weapons.  Index = 5

DC:

     None, unless you count the Pinky and the Brain ad. }->

IMAGE:

     Celestine ad, big hair, huge breasts, wasp waist, tattered leather
          straps, etc.  Index = 12
     Glory ad, photo of model in various poses across two pages.  Index = 7
     Witchblade ad, topless (arms cover breasts), claws.  Index = 10


ESSENTIAL SECTION

BROADWAY

     Fatale, full page ad, huge breasts falling out of top.  Index = 6
     Babes of Broadway, partial page ad, swimsuit special.  Index = 5

COMICO

     Various miniseries ad, bondage, erect nipples, burning lingerie,
          narrow waists, etc.  Index = 15

HARRIS

     Vampirella ad, photo and painted, typical Vampirella stuff.  Index = 7

LONDON NIGHT

     Tommi Gunn ad, model peeling off a leather teddy.  Index = 9

MAXIMUM

     Avengelyne ad with a naked pregnant model in the "Demi Moore" pose
          as well as wearing a diaphanous silk top.  Plus inset drawing of the
          character with blood spattered and big hair.  Index = 15
     Avengelyne/Glory Swimsuit Special ad.  Index = 10

SIRIUS

     Dawn ad, in a skin tight bodysuit that might as well not be there.
          Index = 4


SELECT SECTION

GOTHIC

     Cadence of the Dirge ad, vampire babes in leather cavorting in a
          graveyard.  Index = 10

HIGH IMPACT

     Double Impact and Lethal Strike ad, B&W, babes with weapons and not
          much clothing.  Index = 13
     Double Impact/Jazz ad, more weapons, less clothes, Jazz fondling her
          breast.  Index = 21 (an extra point for the fondle)

REAL COMICS

     Cauldron #3 ad.  Claws, watermelon-sized breasts hanging in leather
          strapes, spikes, the works.  Index = 13

SQP

     Demon Baby ad.  Index = 7



     Well, that's it for this issue.  High Impact regains the top spot with its
Jazz ad.  Here's the index explained:

The Bad Girl Art (BGA) Index v0.0:

     This is an attempt to quantify the degree of offense given by "Bad Girl 
Art" as presented to general audiences in solicitation material, such as 
Diamond's Previews magazine.
     Any depiction of the female form in a solicitation is fair game for 
assigning a BGA Index, but the threshhold that must be passed in order to be 
truly considered BGA has not yet been determined, although 5 seems like a lower
bound.  Every depiction starts at 0 points, then adds points based on the 
Format, Pose, Body Type, Clothes Type and Clothes Coverage of the female shown.

FORMAT: Style of ad
     +1 per full page (if the ad is several pages but the female appears on
          only one of them, only count that page)
     +1 if in color
     +1 for photographic art

POSE: Positioning of the female
     +1 if the pose is anatomically impossible or severely painful
     +1 if the woman is being struck
     +1 for bondage situations
     +2 for a gratuitous butt shot
     +3 for a spread-legs crotch shot

BODY: The physical attributes of the female
     +1 for breasts larger than her head
     +1 for breasts larger than waist (cumulative)
     +1 for erect nipples shown
     +1 for thigh wider than waist
     +1 for thigh longer than total torso plus head height
     +1 for Big Hair (hair larger than torso)
     +1 per inhuman or demonic part (such as claws, fangs, etc)

CLOTHES TYPE: What the female is wearing
     +0 for skintight bodysuit
     +1 for swimsuit
     +1 for lingerie
     +1 for leather (cumulative with above)
     +1 if torn or tattered (cumulative with above)
     +1 if adorned with spikes or blades (cumulative with above)
     +1 for spiked heels
     +1 per weapon
     +1 if covered in blood

CLOTHES COVERAGE: How well the clothing covers the "naughty bits" of the
     female.  This is clothing coverage only, and doesn't count strategic
     limb placement or black bars.  It's the thought that counts.
The following are cumulative (i.e. if less than 1/4 of the breast is covered,
     then points are given for 1/4 and 1/2).
     +1 if less than half of each breast is covered
     +1 if less than 1/4 of each breast is covered
     +2 if breasts totally bare (so +4 total)
     +1 if enough of crotch is uncovered to require shaving
     +2 if outline of genitalia is drawn
     +5 if crotch is totally bare
The following points are not cumulative with the above.
     +10 if subject is totally naked (except for shoes, gloves and jewelry)

     Any suggestions (other than "Get a life!") appreciated.  This file and
updates of it will be posted each month along with a listing of outstanding
cases of BGA in Previews.