Worldwatch

    (Wild and Wooly, 2004)
™ and © Wild and Wooly Press

There’s nothing wrong with breasts. There are breasts in the works of Will Eisner and in the works of Rumiko Takahashi. It is entirely possible to have breasts in a quality story without stooping to titillation. Austen’s WorldWatch goes too far but stops short of becoming out-and-out pornography.

The heroines of WorldWatch are even less bashful than the none-too-modest Wonder Woman and Power Girl. For example, after shredding one too many shirts, Sgt. Mercury now runs around completely topless. Tiger Princess, we’re told, used to wear nothing but her mask.

Uh huh.

Willing suspension of disbelief fails about here. Sure, there can be nude super-heroes. Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan made perfect sense in the context of his story. A team of naked crime fighters does not. WorldWatch has the makings of a fine super-hero story, but it exceeds its “Mature Readers” label. If Austen wants to write porn, he should write porn. Otherwise, he should scale back the unbelievable level of gratuitous nudity that keeps an otherwise excellent story from being remotely believable.

— Jack Abramowitz
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