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I really hate series that don't ever have a conclusion. It's a sad fact of the way that comics are published that very often (very often) we'll get a few issues of a series, with promises of more to come, and then the comic simply disappears. Such is the case with John Stinsman's Scarlet Crush.
I really quite like this setting and these characters, though, as with many comics from the late 90s, I'm not entirely certain why the main female character has to have a costume that barely covers anything. Indeed, the flight suit that Icaria wears in this issue actually has a zipper that goes at least up to the underboob section of her anatomy, but she chooses instead to leave it open almost to the point of the happy trail. While flying. And fighting. I just don't get it. I mean, I do, because it's a reason to show a woman basically undressed doing cool things. But, and I've said this before, it completely detracts from the story itself. This is a tale of someone trying to rescue her father from a brutal race of aliens. In the first issue, Icaria is in her police outfit, and the story is quite intriguing, as is the setting. But once she quits the force and strips off her uniform, she becomes yet another scantily-clad lady superhero whose anatomy seems to trump any attention given to her personality.
The only time I've ever seen anything like this where the rampant almost nudity didn't detract from the story is the insane, gorgeous, amazing anime Kill La Kill. If you've not seen it, it's perhaps the most kinetic television series I've ever seen, and for a large portion of the series, the main protagonists, male and female, are mostly naked. The thing is, the story is so intriguing, and the ironic perspective on the nudity so much in the fore, that it virtually disappears into the action and narrative. It's hard to explain how it happens, but it does. While watching it, I told my offspring that this had happened (they'd seen it already), and they said it was a common reaction to the series, the loss of viewer focus on the nudity, in response the the absolute awesomeness of the story.
I like to think that, had we had more, Scarlet Crush might have done something similar. But there's really no way to tell.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Posts
A couple of other really questionable looks at the female superhero form from Image comic can be found in my "Horror from the Dollar Bin" posts.
