Retailer Incentive Variant Cover for IDW Star Trek Vs. Transformers #3 by Megan Levens

Caelus wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Does Windblade's head design ever not look ridiculous and over doing it trying to be japanese when not?

Does Arcee's color layout ever not look like it's trying to be slooty?

Caelus wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:

Caelus wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Does Windblade's head design ever not look ridiculous and over doing it trying to be japanese when not?

Does Arcee's color layout ever not look like it's trying to be slooty?

ARCEE IS NOT A...Sloot?

Slang from game modding, in which fans (usually male) edit the game so that certain characters (usually female) look 'slutty'.

Slooty outfits are designed with the intention of inviting or satisfying sexual interest, but are not chosen by the person wearing them.

So when a fictional character's appearance has been designed to be especially sexy - especially when that's not part of the character - it's slooty.

No canon depiction of Arcee has really seemed like the sort of person to go into battle wearing a two piece, but her colors are laid out to look that way. Unlike most Transformers, her lower leg is the same secondary color as her upper leg, so that she doesn't look like she's wearing boots, and her abdomen is also rendered - entirely - in her secondary color. And if it wasn't perfectly clear her secondary color is supposed to represent skin, artists often give her a belly button.

I'd be okay with it if Arcee's character was supposed to come off that way (like Black Arachnia), but her personality doesn't fit with the look, so it feels like she's been forced into a certain appearance to pander to the reader's sexual interests.

Ig89ninja wrote:

Caelus wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:This is the first I've heard of that theory...and wow, once you see it...

To be completely fair, many - perhaps most - Transformers use their secondary color for their thighs, and Windblade uses her secondary color (jet black) for her midriff as well, but with Arcee its the porcelain white color and the literal belly button that pushes it over the line from the campy superhero look to slooty.

Edit: Also to be fair, a person might be able to make the case that G1 Megatron is 'dressed' like a male stripper.

Not to mention Windblade’s face is a different color than her secondary color

Star Trek vs. Transformers #1
John Barber and Others

The Transformers ‘80s cartoon series meets Star Trek: The Animated Series in a no-holds-barred Saturday Morning mash-up for the ages! At the edge of Klingon space, the Starship Enterprise finds there's more to the final frontier than meets the eye, when Kirk and his crew come face to face with the strangest life forms of all: Cybertronians! This unprecedented crossover brings together two of the greatest science fiction universes of all time—in the style of their classic animated series! A five-year mission meets a four-million-year war!

Category: Graphic Novels
Expected Release: Sep 30, 2018
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Seller: Idea and Design Works, LLC
Print Length: 29 Pages
Language: English

Sabrblade wrote:Is that Airachnid there, too?

It was an amazing opportunity to get the chance to design the ICONIC! Enterprise as a Transformer , if you want to see how Fortress Tiberius comes to be check out Star trek vs Transformers #3

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