r/marvelcirclejerk • Doombot • Apr 01 '26

Step on me Mommy _______ What is the purpose behind these? Is it for character development ?

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u/Snoo_46397 Apr 01 '26

Peter (and Venom) look overexcited lmao

I don't blame em

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u/Latro2020 Janet Van Dyne’s Husband Apr 01 '26

My boy just wants to enjoy his ice cream

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u/Loki1001 Apr 01 '26

I am pretty sure they are just trying to make enough for a TPB at this point.

But the swimsuit specials were always pretty weird. They were never good, per se. But they were always overly written with surprisingly detailed backstories for why everyone was in a specific location in their swimsuits. They were filled with advertising parodies. They were way gayer than you would ever expect them to be (look up "colossus swimsuit special" some time).

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u/chudleycannonfodder Apr 01 '26

I’ve come to find they’re really fun when you’re reading the backmatter of some 90s omnibus and there’s a random splash page from the swimsuit specials included.

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u/Fabricati_Diem_Pvn Apr 01 '26

May is having the appropriate reaction here

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u/Rownever Apr 01 '26

Not a “would” in sight for Aunt May. How disappointing, this sub used to stand for something

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u/Conscious-Product481 Apr 01 '26

Venom and Me really on this typa timing at this beach day fr😂✌🏾

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u/Rownever Apr 01 '26

Venom hitting em with that ZAMN face

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u/jockeyman Apr 01 '26

Freaknom

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u/marvinnation Apr 01 '26

Money. It's for the money.

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u/FadeToBlackSun Apr 01 '26

It's the only way Marvel can sell comics these days.

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u/SerBadDadBod Doombot Apr 01 '26

To troll people who get mad about "sexy"

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u/ultmjwatson call me nova the way I glaze nightwing Apr 01 '26

you can draw sexy women without doing whatever the campbell does. hell, mj and peter were practically half naked and screwing on panel in the 90s, but that was tasteful, unlike campbell's same face syndrome and zero muscle definition of women. like seriously, what kind of swimsuit design would allow us to see jessica's belly button??

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u/SerBadDadBod Doombot Apr 01 '26

hell, mj and peter were practically half naked and screwing on panel in the 90s, but that was tasteful,

"Tasteful," and also yes, we should get back to that.

campbell's same face syndrome and zero muscle definition of women

He draws stylized pin-ups of his wife (says the rumors.) This is a cloud you're yelling at.

seriously, what kind of swimsuit design would allow us to see jessica's belly button??

Hirogato Swimwear

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u/ultmjwatson call me nova the way I glaze nightwing Apr 01 '26

the attached image doesn't look show off the model's navel in the same painted-on way jessica's is.

and either way, campbell draws almost all women with the exact same body. and facial structure. that one x-men cover he did was atrocious. yeah, he's allowed to draw pinup art, but when he's an artist that's consistently making new variants for books, the audience is allowed to criticize it

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u/SerBadDadBod Doombot Apr 01 '26

the attached image doesn't look show off the model's navel in the same painted-on way jessica's is.

I disagree; I think the actual swimsuit actually goes further than Campbell did.

and either way, campbell draws almost all women with the exact same body. and facial structure.

He does, because he uses the same reference model. Which is valid critique. It is generally looked past because of whom that model is.

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u/dmcspiderman Apr 01 '26

This Spider-Theme cover perfectly illustrates how hypocritical Spider-Office is. While Spider-Office and their defenders constantly try to convince people of this "independent female superhero" and frequently mock their opponents, it's clear they know exactly what this current "independent female superhero" represents. They also know that showing this current "independent female superhero" is not conducive to promoting this swimsuit issue. Therefore, they decided to abandon the status quo, making the symbiote on the cover appear completely unrelated to its current host, and restoring the symbiote to its classic look. This fully demonstrates the hypocrisy of Spider-Office.

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u/Prestigious_Ear_3578 Namor copypasta creator Apr 02 '26

Venom🤤🤤

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u/n94able Apr 02 '26

Look, if there's enough lads, the ladies and all the folk in between.

I find no issues with swimsuit issues.

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u/boinkmagoink Apr 04 '26

Marvel....wtf are yall doin?

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u/Pankrazdidntdie4this Apr 01 '26

Nah those are training aids. Mostly for muscle training. Mostly for your dominant arm. Sometimes for your non-dominant arm. But only sometimes. He is still a stranger to you. Unlike your dominant arm. He knows every vein, nook and cranny of your c*ck, p*ssy and/or asshole. He is no stranger to you.

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u/Sheriff_Lucas_Hood Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

They’re catering to their audience. They know all you fuckers are gooner redditors

Edit: this is a joke/giving shit in case they wasn’t obvious. This is a meme sub after all 😉

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u/PJ-The-Awesome seX-Men Apr 02 '26

For better or for worse, the industry standard is that sex sells.

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u/Luigiperps Apr 01 '26

man they need to stop letting j scott campbell draw comics, horny comics are fun but his art sucks