Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for February 13, 2011

Hah. Clever, clever, Mr Dunlap.

(Tough, to be fair, Supergirl got a pretty good origin of her own - the whole exploded planet thing kind of effected her, too, and they had to explain a lot of things in light of that. She-Hulk’s is pretty lame, though.)

That’s just bizarro.

Hey - at least she got the good looks in the family….

That’s the big double-standard, jukeofurl. A male super-hero’s powers are far more likely to manifest as a physical deformity than a female’s. Scales, huge foreheads, hooves, tails, what-have-you… But a super-heroine’s “transformation” is more likely to increase her hotness than detract from it.

There are a few exceptions (She-Thing is the only one that comes to mind, but there are others), but their scarcity points out the generality of the rule.

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KaminoNeko: It’s ‘affected’, not ‘effected’.

Nerds and geeks tend to like their fantasy women in iconic proportions, fritz. Witness the road kill t-shirts ads.

Grammar Man is at it again!!!

freeholder, it’s been posted here before, but…

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostCommonSuperPower

For a worst-case scenario of a heroine with an uglifying super-power, check out Element Girl’s predicament in Neil Gaiman’s “Facade”, which is collected in the “Dream Country” collection of Sandman.

The origin of Rogue’s powers is interesting. (The comic version of Rogue, not the movie version)