Why Are Comics Obsessed With Red Heads???

There are alot of female characters in comics. But for some reason, there are a HUGE amount of redheads. Like... ALOT.

The only reasons I can think of are either:

A- The creators have some kind of fetish (I really hope not)

B- It is easier to ink and print. Similar to that of how Hulk went from grey to green because of printing benefits, I think that they made/make alot of female character's hair red because it is easier to print and ink with dynamic shading and effect. Of course, this doesn't apply to male characters, much, because they usually have masks on that conceal there identities.

I don't know! Maybe it's just a coincidence (I doubt it). But it is strange to me such a small majority of the world's population has read hair, yet so many females in comics seem to be redheaded.

What are your thoughts?

Because they rule!

Cause they sexy

I feel like there are more blondes than Redheads...

because redheads do it better.

Cause nobody complains about killing things without souls

There are definitely more blondes, no doubt in my mind.

Based on the picture provided by the OP, I'm not complaining.

Cause nerds have a red lust. They know their market.

:P

This guy is a perfect example of a HORNY, RED head

Red heads are actually skrulls in disguise, they're slowly planning to take over the multiverse.

What I want to know is why Dan DiDio apparently hates them.

Because gingers are so friendly and huggable.

They'll always be a novelty because you don't see them a lot elsewhere.

@mandarinestro: Images with swears aren't allowed on the vine :P

@squalleon: I know but so many people post swear images and never get banned :P flag it or whatever, it's a scan anyway.

It's because the colour is visually interesting and it makes a character stand out compaired to other females on panel. It's the same reason there are a lot of green\purple colour scheme characters.

It's because of the four color printing back in the day. You couldn't make detailed hair with black color because it was ink like the linework so there are countless of blonde and red haired characters.

BB

I want to jump in them

@mandarinestro: is that the actual dialogue?

@spider-manwins: no

@darling_luna: manga does the same they know...

@chazz85: Seemed to take that the wrong way < 3

Blondes are somewhat hotter too.

So THAT'S why Jean dies so much...

Cuz a bit more unique?

@darling_luna: just saying this post is right i agree and it spills into other parts of media.

...and that's a bad thing?

@impervious: 10/10 will laugh again

Comics are obsessed with redheads? Well then, I guess I'm a Comic, because I love me my redheads.

;-)

Red heads make hot girls hotter and ugly girls uglier

Because being obsessed with Asians makes you racist.

@makhai: Who's obsessed with Asians ?

Apparently no one publishing comic books!

>:o

cuz red

Because Bryce Dallas Howard is da hotness.

Asian comics? :o

Yeah, I've always heard it had a lot to do with red providing a better contrast to other colors on the page than yellow did back in the day. I've never really tried counting, but I always felt like older comics had a disproportionately large number of brunettes and redheads to blondes (and I don't even mean just named characters, I mean background ones as well).

Also, I think Mystique would look terrible as a blonde.