ROBERT PLUNKETT This shows the halfinked version of a Lara Croft pin-up. The scene would probably be more appropriate with James Bond in the front but it just happens to have a Lara packing heat while wearing a legless wet suit cut above the hips and unzipped to her bikini line.
BOB McLEOD GGA doesn't have to be real anatomy, of course. This girl's waist is impossibly thin and her rib cage would suggest starvation. But this is a very common style of anatomy in current comics which I first noticed among the Image and Top Cow artists; broad shoulders, very thin waist, Lara Croft TM & Š2009 Eidos Interactive
slim hips, perfectly round breasts, muscular arms, extremely small nose tip, and angular jaw. Contrast this with the style of an older artist known for his sensual women, Frank Frazetta: narrow shoulders, round belly, very wide hips, natural breasts, slender arms, almost invisible nose tip, and round jaw.
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ROUGH STUFF • SPRING 2009
art by Roy Cover