# Worst. Crossover. Ever. (comics & lingerie ads) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237 "2009-09-15T21:46:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/1 "2009-09-15T21:46:15Z")
So a (UK?) company that makes kinky underwear for the ladies (or their menfolk) has decided to release a line of [superheroine-themed lingerie](http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/09/15/agent-provocateur-comic-book-superheroines-who-wear-their-underwear-on-the-outside/) (potentially NSFW because, y’know, lingerie), with a comic book-cum-catalog to go with. There’s a plot summary of the comic at the link, which I’m _hoping_ was deliberately designed to be campily horrible: all the men of the planet Voluptura die off, or something, so they send a crack team of barely-clad females to Earth to collect sperm, who end up fighting for the Earthmen’s freedom against a totalitarian matriarchy… (if this is _not_ intended as self-parody, then I quail to think what the producers of said lingerie think women actually fantasize about) (assuming this is aimed at women at all, which I’m seriously prepared to consider is not the case). The article has some photos of the comic; setting aside the fact that its main purpose is to cram in as many shots of the lingerie as possible (to the extent that it looks capable of use as soft porn by those who like that sort of thing), it looks excruciatingly terrible (there’s even a panel of semi-clad women firing what I believe to be weapons that look like electric guitars). Worse, it’s apparently first of a continuing series about these “characters”. And to top it all off, judging from the sample ads shown, the lingerie comes in two flavors: stuff that is hideous, and stuff that looks just like any other lingerie brand. None of it looks remotely superheroine-esque. I’m sure there are thousands of slavering fanboys even now planning to add this gem to their collections (porn stash or comics stash, you pick); whether they can get their girlfriends to pose in the [chain outfit with the little black pasties](http://.www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ap12.jpg) (NSFW) is another matter entirely. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/2 "2009-09-15T22:26:25Z")
> [@JR\_Brown](#): > > comic book-cum-catalog It does look quite like a cum-catalogue, yes. > [@](#): > > so they send a **crack** team of barely-clad females to Earth to collect sperm Are you doing this on purpose? I’m pretty sure this is no more than a lingerie catalogue in the style of a comic book. The idea’s been done before, many times, over many years, for everything from road safety to household cleaning products. As comics, they’re universally dire. This is the first time I’ve seen one attract any attention. Obviously it’s the sex aspect that’s been missing all this time. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/3 "2009-09-15T23:05:50Z")
I like the name “Hornette”. It’s got about three or four puns in it. ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/4 "2009-09-16T00:27:35Z")
This isn’t the first semi-comic Agent provocateur has put out, actually. First full-on superhero one I’ve seen, but they did a series of BDSM escapist fantasies a while back. For the record, I only know this because my girlfriend got some. They’re kind of hilarious, in a so-bad-they’re-good kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/5 "2009-09-16T00:36:02Z")
Combining superheroes with underwear? I think Underoos should sue. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/6 "2009-09-16T00:40:44Z")
Take away all the Photoshop and it’s just regular old lingerie. I was really hoping for actual Marvel/DC-inspired stuff that wasn’t designed for 10-year-old girls. ---
**Author:** ![justafriend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@justafriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justafriend)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/7 "2009-09-16T06:37:49Z")
Yeah. What Catfight said. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/8 "2009-09-16T07:03:56Z")
Heck, any of Emma Frost’s poses are better than those. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/9 "2009-09-16T13:18:14Z")
This _could_ have been a well done idea, but this isn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-crossover-ever-comics-lingerie-ads/510237/10 "2009-09-16T15:54:15Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > It does look quite like a cum-catalogue, yes. As I was writing that I thought “you know, somebody’s going to make a joke about this”. And there it is, in the very first reply. 😃