15 Most Inappropriate Comics Storylines Of All Time‏

12. Extreme Babewatch, Extremely Terrible

When Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen and Jim Lee broke away from the Big Two to begin their independent Image Comics studio in the nineties, it was seen as a big score for creators owning their original work. In actuality it was mainly an outlet for these all-star writers and artists to create their own terrible knock-offs of Marvel and DC characters they had previously worked on, except now they could get away with all the violence and rufty they were never allowed to before.

They also decided to mimic their competition's penchant for big crossover events, and the best they could come up with was one where all the male characters in their shared universe became female for a month. And this event was called Babewatch. That actually would be a progressive move for an industry dominated by men both on the page and drawing them, right? Especially when it started with a witch getting revenge on the male gender by turning every man Image hero Glory had ever met into a woman.

In practice, though, it was just an excuse to stick scantily clad women on every cover and in every comic for a month. So women could only get ahead in the Image Universe if they were actually men, and if they had little-to-no-clothes on. Yep.