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There is some fetish out there of a super-heroine stripping in front of a crowd and now I have it. I need to shout-out to a pair of these types of images in my "funny" section of my favorites:

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It is a funny scene because the crowd is like "go get 'em" without devolving into the shocked and sexual thoughts (though the guy on the far right looks shocked to me). In this world, the gals need to get the sun on skin to charge up, so the outfits need to show skin but still be functional. Alva chooses a wetsuit top because that is military-style and works well for her, but it probably isn't ideal and doesn't let her operate at full power.

The original series was almost clothes free, but the gals had to have boots to protect feet and that theme of functional clothing while keeping the power coming in was a strong theme. One of my close friends, Coffeeboss, who saw the entire series said "the nudity almost is anti-sexual and I end up feeling sorry for them" and that was one of the intentions. Another inspiration was the nude figures of Greek gods doing battle in heroic poses, and there is some of that as well going on. One commented once said the gals were sexier when dressed (or getting undressed), and that was a fun counter-point to the series and the feelings it brought up.

All these thoughts inspired by this series I feel are good things and cool.

If I could boil it down, I would say there is the notion of debt and sacrifice as central themes here. Yes, in their unclothed forms they are at full power and like those Greek gods of old, closer to that "god ideal" of power and they look like that. But how much do they sacrifice when they do so? They push themselves farther from acceptable behavior in society, which requires dress and codes of conduct, so there is a sacrifice of a part of their connection to normal society when they want to power up.

This series is important because it shows us "heroes" who fell off the edge and became monsters. How much humanity can you give up before you fall?

This panel also answers another big question about the series, that men get their powers from darkness (which is why the Overlord wears his suit). It means they can stay clothed and gain power all the time, and at night they are even more dangerous. It also means a lot of the male superheroes fell quite easily to the lure of infinite power, since they didn't have to sacrifice much to get it. It feels right to me, and while the entire concept could be said it is all made to show skin, it also hits on an important concept of womanhood being inherently linked to the light and rebirth and manhood being linked to darkness and death. Society's ideal female image is that of the nude goddess of love or the hunt, and the ideal male image is that of the fully-armored soldier, father-figure, and god-of-war. I am parodying that. I am playing off of that.

That makes me think. And I love it when a series inspires me like this, because I lie awake at night thinking of all the cool stories I could tell.