[quote=@Eddie Brock]
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My only issue with it is when artists -- including Churchill, whom I'm praising here -- exaggerate the proportions such that the crop top begins one nanometer below the breasts and the skirt is literally only wide enough to cover a bikini bottom. There is a difference between attractive young woman shows off toit abs and something that looks like an outfit from the sort of media that Greg Land likes to trace.
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I can see that, yeah.  As much as I like the old-school one-piece on Wonder Woman, I do find it a little ridiculous when it's drawn so that her shorts are practically a thong.  There's titilation, and then there's borderline porn.

Even then, though, I don't find it all that galling, especially when you compare the relatively tame cheesecake in comics to the outright shamelessness in your average anime.  If it's a live-action thing and there's an actual person who might not be all that comfortable with nerds drooling over their bodies, then yeah, the costume should be as modest or as risque as the actress is okay with wearing.  But if it's just a drawing of a fictional character, then meh, at the very worst I just find it amusing what some writers think will be hot.