Comments on: Magazine Covers!

By: Confuszius

Confuszius — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:50:32 +0000

Would love to see this magazine! I was lucky I found this while doing a search on the 1st edition of Windup Girl. Looking to sell it on Ebay and cant find all the identifying points to sell confidently. Anybody have any ideas?

By: Armor Magazine at Tobias Buckell Online

Armor Magazine at Tobias Buckell Online — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:06:35 +0000

[...] concept provoked by a discussion on Paolo’s blog about what a cool new SF/F mag with a targeted core audience (those of us who [...]

By: Chang

Chang — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:37:13 +0000

I didn’t think to google “armored girl” or “armored woman” as I’m pretty literal in my googling.

I did make an alternate cover of a female oriented ARMORED MAGAZINE. And it’s a bit of a joke, drawing from some of the comments others have made. Note the dolphins. And Scalzi’s progeny writing career has already taken off.

I, too, thought that it was interesting that the original marrines pictured were all identified as male by the folks who have seen this. I didn’t point this out because I was interested in seeing the discussion unfold.

By: Ian Chai

Ian Chai — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:01:12 +0000

I just did an images.google.com on “armored girl” jus to see what turned up. The vast majority of relevant pictures were girls in armor that left large swaths of their body unprotected, to make they more sexy, e.g.

http://www.crimsoncrescent.com/illustration/armrgrl-rgb.jpg
http://www.the123d.com/characters/idpascal/girl_suit-home.jpg
http://www.japan-toys.com/p-japan-toys/images/girl_right_fi-5331.gif

After 2 or 3 pages of pictures, I found this one image of an armored girl who is actually armored in a protective manner: http://godleftfeet.deviantart.com/art/Armored-Girl-23738534

By: SpecLit

SpecLit — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:39:23 +0000

“Tacky” doesn’t cover it?

By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:11:32 +0000

There ought to be a term for armor that’s been gratuitously feminized.

By: chibicharibdys

chibicharibdys — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:43:36 +0000

I am only assuming that it’s male because, having played Warhammer 40k, it states several places that the Space Marines (which that is a picture of) are ALL male. So while I admit to having a prejudice, it’s from the source that the picture comes from. Otherwise I agree that it would be non-gendered, save for the broad shoulders.

For the sort of thing that would make me NOT buy the magazine, here’s a perfectly good picture of a cool armored guy: http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/2h/images.gamezone.com/screens/26/4/3/s26403_pc_76.jpg
and his female counterpart: http://hellgate.incgamers.com/gallery/data/501/medium/templar-f-art.jpg

It makes me very sad that they felt the need to have her spine twisted in weird ways so that they could work her butt into the picture, because otherwise it would be a very cool picture.

By: Shara Saunsaucie

Shara Saunsaucie — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:33:09 +0000

Paolo, that is interesting. But the soldier just looks mean, and like a Storm Trooper, and we all know Storm Troopers are male. ;)

Technically speaking though, my first thought when I saw the soldier was that it was a robot. It’s the inhumanly skinny waist.

But another fact to viewing it as “male” is the incredibly BROAD shoulders. Not that I want to see fitted armor so a woman’s boobs are obvious, but I imagine there’s ways to draw armor that’s more androgynous than anything. :)

By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:08:04 +0000

One of the funny things I notice about this discussion is the assumption that if the trooper is completely covered in body armor it *must* be a male. We apparently need the face exposed or form fitting armor or something to assure us that it’s female.

Ain’t that interesting?

By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:02:36 +0000

I’ve read some stuff by Tanya Huff about a kick-ass female staff sergeant that’s solidly focused on thrilling bloody set-piece battles and the general kick-assedness of the female lead.