From: [d--n--m] at [magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu] (Dave Van Domelen) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info,rec.arts.comics.misc Subject: The Bad Girl Index Report for June Previews Date: 31 May 1996 19:03:18 GMT The Bad Girl Art (BGA) Report for Diamond Previews: June 1996 See below for an explanation of the BGA Index. And keep in mind that something can have a high BGA Index without actually being "bad girl" art, since BGA is more than just naked women (but not much more). Diamond has combined the Select and Essential sections into one again, which is good in some ways, but also means Uncle Scrooge is right next to Vampirella again. PREMIER COMICS ACCLAIM: None to speak of. DARK HORSE: Well, the Tarzan feature has a topless African tribal woman in chains, but that's not really "Bad Girl" art...more like pulp. OTOH, we have Tongue*Lash, in a world "where bondage is a way of life," running around in lingerie and spike heels...in the JUNGLE. Index = 3 by the book, but I feel like adding two more points for the name alone, so 5. DC: None to speak of. IMAGE: Glory/Avengelyne ad: breasts straining to be free of tiny tops, waists narrower than HEADS, big hair, swords, back-mangling poses. Index = 10 Witchblade ad: Just being herself, with spikes and blood and stuff. Index = 9 COMICS MAGAZINES SECTION COMBO: Combo #21 ad: Razor shouting and twisting about as she falls out of her top. Index = 7 COMICS SECTION ANTARCTIC: Lillith ad: Sitting atop a pile of skulls with her Dunnercized breasts and so forth. Index = 7 BONEYARD PRESS: Vampires Lust ad: Your basic goth tramp type in leather. Index = 4 BRAINSTORM COMICS: Reruns of Vamperotica. BROADWAY COMICS: Fatale ad: Miss "Actual Size" again, larger-than-head breasts and all. Index = 4 (but a bit tackier than that would imply) CHAOS! COMICS: Lady Death ad: LD covered in blood, with her minimalist leather bikini in tatters...yet her hair is clean and bouncy. Index = 14 Purgatori ad: Purgatori wearing a few strips of mummy wrap as skeletons cling to her and pull on the wrap. And it must be cold in there. Index = 13 (but quite a bit tackier than that implies) Also, this is a chromium cover on a 10,000 copy limited edition selling for $20, which is possibly far more obscene than the cover content. DARK FANTASY PRODUCTIONS: A line ad: Woman hanging in chains, variant nude covers, demonic parts...a laundry list of BGA elements. Overall Index = 23 GROUND ZERO COMICS: Blue Dog ad: lots of leather and chains, and a playing card stuck oh-so-seductively in the bosom. Index = 4 HIGH IMPACT STUDIOS: Two page ad: Raptus inset on a Chromium Double Impact #1 megabuttshot. Fauning women, crotch shots, leather, weapons...everything we've come to expect from High Impact. Index = 18 HARRIS COMICS: Major Vampirella spread, and I mean that in more than one way. Total Index = 23 LONDON NIGHT: Numerous topless shots with "censored" bars across them, lots of leather and bondage and blood and so forth. LN continues to live down to expectations. Total Index = 21 MAXIMUM PRESS: Avengeblade ad: Intended as parody, but it IS BGA. Tiny waists, long thighs, big hair, etc. Standard Extreme stuff. Index = 12 Darkchylde ad: Yet more of Rob's favorite nude demonic cutie. Dressed in hair and blood. Index = 16 BOOK SECTION SQP ART BOOKS: More "art" from SQP, with leather and not much of it on the ladies. "Treasured Chests" collection...sheesh. Index = 8 TRADING CARDS COMICS IMAGES: "Sugar & Spice" Double Impact collection. About what you'd expect. Index = 9 (cropped pictures, can't tell if the full pics would qualify for more) HIGH HEELS PRODUCTIONS: Pamela Anderson Edenquest Card Set: Pamela in a thong bottom and necklace, "demurely" covering her siliconsacs with one hand. Index = 12 GAMES FPG: "The Two BIGGEST Things In The New Guardians Expansion..." screams the header, and the picture is of a well-endowed female elf falling out of her top as various creatures drool over her. Index = 7, plus one more for the ad copy, 8. The Bad Girl Art (BGA) Index v0.2: 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) +1 for facial expression indicating sexual themes (seductive, rapturous, etc) +2 additional for expression indicating subject is in the throes of orgasm 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 "nonstandard" body piercing (navel, nose, lip, etc) +1 for spiked heels +1 per weapon +1 per fluid type covering subject (includes but is not limited to blood, sweat, tears, regular water) 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.