I really should have had this done earlier in the week, but the antibiotics and cough pill have really made me tired and dizzy. Still, I did pull out my guilty little pleasure of comicbook collecting and reading. I didn't fall for the Danger Girls when they first appeared. I saw the cheesecake covers (and yes I do own a copy of the famous Abbey Chase Bubble Bath cover) and was not a purchaser of comics for art. I was in my early days of returning to comics as well. I didn't delve into the Image waters much. It would be many years later that I would find some Danger Girl comics in collected and single forms for a steal and buy them. I liked those early issues well enough.
What has really captured my imagination has been the last ten years or so of Danger Girl. It has comeback in limited series forms many times and I like that. I have bought a few and really have enjoyed how the characters have grown since those early cheesecake days. TRINITY was the last one I purchased and IDW now has the franchise. The downside of which is the cost of a single issue, $3.99. Still, I was doing better back when this came out and picked each issue up off the shelf. I have put the covers I own in the posts. If you know anything about Danger Girl, it is that there are always multiple covers.
For those that do not know about Danger Girl, it is a great spy/action/adventure comic. It all started with the recruitment of Abbey Chase, Archaeologist and Relic Hunter. She gets brought into the Spy group Know as Danger Girl. There are sisters Sydney and Sonya Savage as well as Deuce and Valerie. Deuce is a former British Intelligent Agent and the surly leader of the team. Valerie is the teenage tech whiz that aspires to be like Abbey. It is Abbey, Sydney, and Sonya that are the three main femme fatales. Each gets there own cover this series.
That is good since it reads as a three part action tale that will converge in issue #4. Abbey is abducted very politely by a desert king and taken for some unknown reason. She always is falling into trouble like this and it leads to her Indiana Jones like saving of the day. It was Sydney that got some of the sex appeal action and funny relationship stuff as she is called to save Abbey while with a nice guy. He ends up in some strange situations because of her. Oh, there is also a group of assassins that are after her. That leaves Sonya as she is retrieving a bounty and anther group of killers have it out for her. The guy she has captured ends up as her buddy during many high octane escapes.
All this leads to Abbey figuring out who is the baddies and who needs help. Her Danger Girl pals arrive and everything gets explosive. This is a group of characters that are used as typical sexy women in comic art ways, but stories like this feel more rendered as it has some well done writing to accompany all the great art. People will buy Danger Girl stories for different reasons. So far, I have enjoyed the recent adventures. I would urge you to not just judge these gals by there covers, but try out the stories. You might be surprised at how independent and strong these female characters have become.
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Starting today you have the opportunity to help the wonderful Writer of so many diverse characters and worlds, Peter David. Most of you should know that Mr. David had a stroke recently. This auction has been put together by J.K. Woodward over on his Blog. Several people have generously done original pieces and put some other things up to help. All information is yours by going to the following link:
Please check out this auction. Please share the fact that it is going on.
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These pics are from my organizing the other week. I thought since I had them all spread out they would be a nice picture. I am working to get more stuff posted, but I also have to deal with work and life and all that stuff as well. I did decide to put down 52 dollars for all the first issues of the DCnU books. My local shop had this deal that ends Wednesday, August 3rd at 5:52 PM. You get each book for $1. Big savings if you look at the fact that they would be $156 dollars otherwise for all the books. Now I have to decide if I will try to do a review of every book as they come into my hands.
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This is so cool. I read this morning that IDW has finalized a deal that will transfer the rights to the entire library of Malibu Comics from Marvel to IDW. it seems that the deal will bring Marvel $7,000,000 in cash that they will use to help bolster the publishing of the Marvel brand. What is really cool will be having the return of Malibu Comics characters.
Word is sketchy as to which characters will get a title first, but I am betting PRIME will be one of the first out of the gate. I will be glad if there is a new Mantra title, it will add issues to my Mantra Mondays. Kelley Yates has been mentioned as a possible creator that will be attached to the return of Malibu's rich universe to comicdom. Whether IDW will be able to revive this interesting group of characters is yet to be seen. So look for the first of the IDW Malibu comics early next year.
