“Ibuki is talking to the reader, telling him that she does too wear underwear.”

“Him”? Not “Her”? ;)

As a sidenote – just realized this, but this comic that “doesn’t pander to sexualized visuals, [and] doesn’t treat its female characters as objects” seems to have been written and drawn by two men, based on a design that all admit was skimpy to begin with. Any idea whether the target audience included women? If it didn’t, then we ought to give credit to the company for at least making an attempt at better representations of women in a comic that seems to be aimed at men.

One note: the artist’s name is Omar Dogan, not Dugan.

Charles, yeah, when I was telling someone about all this, they said “any comic where the character talks about their underwear is clearly problematic”.

Maybe they could do a whole series (Like the old Punisher Armory) where different Street Fighter characters explain about their choices.

Ken: I wear boxer shorts with pictures of Kittens on them.

Ryu: I’m wearing Chun-Li’s panties.

Ken: Wait.. what now?

Aside from this particular comic, though, I’d like to see redesigns for a fair proportion of the older female video game fighters. Whenever a new film/TV show/comic/whatever comes out and anyone complains about a female legacy character’s outfit being too revealing or sexist, the response is always that change would be inaccurate to the source material. Meanwhile, every new Batman-whatever features a redesign of his costume to some degree. The recent Wonder Woman redesigns are a good start, but let’s see some more. As the recent hubbub over Sailor Moon has shown, there’s a large audience waiting for realistic female superheroes in outfits that at least manage to regularly cover their underwear.