Top 100 Artistic Devices For Preserving The Modesty Of Comics Characters

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1. Wisps of steam in the shower! (What shower in real-life works like this???)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

2. (related) bubbles in 'suspended animation' tube.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

3. Unstable molecule purple pants.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

4. Tattered shards of costume apparently hanging from nipple.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

5. Jagged debris

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

6. Blankets blocking the viewer's camera

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

7. Shadows from a censorious lightsource handily obscuring puppy-age.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

8. Crotch-height midget sidekicks.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

6. Blankets blocking the viewer's camera

This suggests you've seen the latest not-at-all-leaked-by-Frank-Cho-no-siree-bob censored pages of Shanna.

9. Speech bubbles.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

10. Long locks of hair.

11. Teeny-weeny skintight costume apparently fastened to the body with a hot-glue gun.

― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Reed Richards' initial fortune was made by inventing super tit tape.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

12. Foliage

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

13. Not having naughty bits!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

aldo is wise.

14. Mystical vapors from an otherworldy realm / dry-ice machine

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

15. Bandages

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

16. Green short shorts.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

17. Super-speed

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

18. Turning your waist just so... (cf Wolverine every other issue)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

19. Your teammate's hands (see Sublime and Evo from DV8).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

19 Panel borders (duh!)

― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

20. If it's manga, giant beams of light eminating from the nether regions.
21. If not, always holding weapons at breast height.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

22. Crouching (cf. every OTHER OTHER issue of Wolverine)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Wolverine's just a grower not a shower?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Tom, that is so unnecessary.

24. Magic!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

25 Flying critters passing by.

― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

26. limbs held in contorted positions (similar to waist turn, but also works on bosoms)

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

27. Magik!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

28. Natural disasters ("Wait, is that your ... OH MY GOD! EARTHQUAKE!")

(Dan, are you referring to Magik's armor?)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

(Partially; it was more a weak joke suggested by your entry. Also didn't her teleportation circle sometime hide nudity?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

29. being partially submerged in strangely opaque water

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Ahh. And speaking of Magik!

30. Mystical armor that masks danger zones in the sexiest way possible (HELLO WITCHBLADE)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

31. Sexless astral projections ("Though we have no nipples, Magneto, we shall duel to the deal in the Psychic Realm!")

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

32, when you are put into a tank to be brainwashed or healed or whatever, all the special machhines have to be plugged into your GROIN

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Re: Magik - her TP circle might've, but I just remember the armor either popping up over her New Mutants costume or just covering all the essentials when she was scrying with S'ym in that evil place.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember* the teleport circle covering Moira MacTaggert's arse one time.

*oh who am I kidding

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

33. speaking of new mutants - have Cannonball style flames and smoke coming out of your waist - "Ah'm invulnerable when ah'm blasting, and also completeley asexual!"

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

"duel to the deal" - it's DC Comics version of Tilt!

34. Have nude shape-shifting character acquire hair / carapace / what-have-you to obscure the good stuff.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I love this board so much.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Isn't 31 a subset of 13?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I think there's a difference between not having naughty bits at all and applying a touch of the astral airbrush.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

35. Being mysteriously lit from behind so you turn into a silhouette.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

36. Portray all robots / androids / synthetic constructs as anatomically incorrect.

(This MIGHT be 13a., though.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

37. Sunspot switches on his powers - and rips off his clothes! (This never happened. But it COULD HAVE.)

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

38. whatever makes you super also means that you are covered in thick luxuriant fur, so that when you are nekkid, no-one can see your bits anyway (ie Beast and Wolfsbane)

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Dude, that's #34!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

oh i am such a fule

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Actually, wait, it's not - I didn't account for PERPETUALLY furry / armored folk (cf. Beast). I apologize. I'll be in the Phantom Zone timing-out if anyone needs me.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

But Beast wears panties! And Wolfsbane wears unitards! Obv. the bits are bare!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I am sure I have seen Wolfsbane running around nekkid though maybe I am imagining it. I expect the Beast wears panties so he has somewhere to keep his mobile phone/gum/loose change, etc.

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

"loose change"

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

(tries to stop thinking about the Beast's genitalia)

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

MY WORK HERE IS DONE

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Sasquatch obscures his bits using his pubes. Does this count?

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

only counts if pubes are "artistic" (viz shaved, dyed, constructed from non-bodily material)

#39. Cut (or burn) strategic hole in page so can see through to later action (ideally action involving genitalia thus obscured)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 January 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

#40. character's groinal machniery = manifests in non-visible dimensions only

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 28 January 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Non-visible dimension = nether regions surely.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

"My wang is penta-dimensional! Your meat eyes cannot comprehend the glory of its galactic glans!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

41. Genitals are shown from the perspective of micro-height so they form a huge, alien landscape.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Dude.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

haha

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 29 January 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

"galactic glans" omg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 31 January 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey! There's another Mark C! Hello there.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 31 January 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

"Hiding" the salami.*

*NB: I read different sorts of comics.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Hello other Mark C. You'd better not be my evil double from Earth-2 or anything...

― Mark C (Markco), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

42. A black bar! (I can't believe we left out the obvious.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

If Earth-2 is I Love Everything, then yes, I'm afraid I am.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

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