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From my experience, one of the more popular artists among female comic fans is Adam Hughes, who does cheesecake. That tells me the  issue isn't really whether females are drawn "sexy", but whether they are objectified, because Hughes knows how to draw sexy women without being gross about it. 

Female characters aren't required to be "sexy" either. 

Nor is there anything wrong with a female character looking androgynous. 

I prefer Carol's old costume because it had a better design because Dave Cockrum designed it.

But it had nothing to do with "sexyness."

Few men ever talk about the "sexyness" of male characters' costumes, after all. Few women, either. (One possible exception: Nightwing, since his third costume appeared.)

Short hair and slim body type does not equal androgynous. 

Maybe a different color scheme? I don't know......

(I don't care the for the new Ms. Marvel's costume, either, by the way.)

So, on one hand, they're sexualizing and exaggerating characters created to be more average or normal-looking (like JB's Kitty or Cassie), and on the other hand they're stripping away breasts and hips from other characters.  Some of this can be attributed to an individual artist's style, but then you have to ask why an editor hired that artist to begin with.

So much of what Marvel's been doing lately looks and feels like old indie comics--and then they wonder why those comics are SELLING like old indie comics!  Was it really almost twenty years ago that Kurt Busiek and George Perez started their popular AVENGERS run--amidst concerns that such a straightforward super-hero comic wouldn't be successful in the (then) present marketplace?

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Joe -- I get it. That's why I made a "Nightwing exception."

And did you mean "sexist" or just "sexy"? I don't get how it's sexist to say "Dick Grayson has the best ass in the DC Universe."

(I keep wondering why DC doesn't publish a Nightwing and Power Girl comic. I suspect it would sell well, for obvious reasons.)

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It's a change visually, but arguably, her new look is more consistent with what's been established for the character. She's an Air Force officer and a feminist (she picked "Ms." for her superhero identity when that was a much more loaded term and was demanding equal pay from JJJ back in the 70s.)

I mean, I definitely prefer the Dave Cockrum costume, but what she's wearing now makes more sense for someone who was once a NASA security chief and would have been struggling to be taken seriously by men for most of her career.