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Girls: The Complete Collection par Joshua Luna
The art is a little 'Christian comic book' but the story is great.
Beyond that, though, this is introducing us to Jessica Drew as a character in ways that we haven't seen before. I feel like I knew the character much more deeply than from previous readings, as we see how Jessica is working through the events of her life, as well as seeing those events through the eyes of characters with whom we're already familiar (such as Nick Fury).
This collects 5 issues, and is a quick read, but it's absolutely the best origin account for Spider-Woman that I've read. The art is equally impressive, with clean lines and a modern graphical depth that makes for an impressive comic.
If you've ever been interested in Spider-Woman, and especially if you're a fan of Bendis, I highly recommend this collection.
Mild Spoilers, Major problems
The aliens can build indestructible domes, and one of them is indestructible yet the most important part of their plan are vulnerable naked women
The people in the a story take four issues to decide to simply have the townsfolk decide to team up and kill the title characters, once they do that two pages later the story is over.
Every character is a cliche. All. Each Every.
What the eff did I just read? I can hardly wrap my brain around how much I despised some of these characters -- people who abandon their families, castrate their neighbors, and ignore their children. And so much nudity, did the Luna's just want to practice drawing nekkid lady aliens? The story was so weird and nothing was really explained in the end. Being trapped in sphere seems borrowed (Under the Dome), granted I don't know which one came first. I doubt King's dome was the first one ever created in fiction. But anyway...toss in alien clone ladies and a giant sperm and you just have one big mess of confusion.
As I had also mentioned in my previous review – I had started off the series reading everything. Not always liking what I was reading, but still reading everything. By the third volume, that had changed. Finding myself accidentally skipping sections and having to go back to read. That lessoned somewhat in the fourth volume, but I did find myself skimming a little once or twice, and downright skipping maybe once.
I made a comment once, somewhere, at some point in time undetermined, one of the reasons I couldn’t get past the pilot of the new version of Battlestar Galactica was simply because one of the main characters loudly talked to himself. Without caring about whether or not anyone could see them. Also one of the things I disliked about Quantum Leap. And, oddly, that came up once again here in this series. Elliot, who I’ve yet to admit isn’t really the main character like I had assumed/thought in the first volume, spent a good portion of the fourth volume talking to himself. Well, talking to a figment of his imagination in the form of that naked alien woman he had slept with. Loudly. Inches away from others.
You know, there are ways of indicating someone is talking inside their own head. Since neither the television shows, nor the comic showed any indication that the people talking to themselves out loud were actually holding conversations inside their brains instead of outside, I have to assume that that was intentional. Though, granted, there were at least two occasions in this book when other characters made comments like ‘where’d you go, you were just standing there in a daze’. So, I guess there were indications. Bah, whatever. Still annoying.
I’m vaguely curious what the overall intention had been for the sperm and egg. If alien invasion, they went about it oddly – sure, setting up in a small community, attempting to take it over, before spreading out is time worn invasion strategy. Except, a huge visible egg appeared and captured a town. For a week or more. Very obvious. So obvious the military showed up and pointed heavy weaponry at the egg. So, as I said, there is some advantage to setting up in a small location then spreading out, but that’s negated if you advertise the fact that you are there before lowering the barrier. But, I don’t want to go any further.
Series as a whole: I didn’t see it specifically in reviews for the last volume in the series, in the two seconds I looked at the first page of reviews, but one of the things that got hammered into my head was some very specific, angry, loathing reviews. Most of which involved words like ‘misogynistic’ and the like.
Just so I remind myself – misogyny – a hatred of women. Okay then, reminded myself I did.
Truth be told, if anyone got shown up in a bad light, it’s the men. There’s almost an anti-man vibe to everything. There were strong women who had some good ideas, and, at times, proved they had good ideas, combined with some really weak-minded men who routinely chose to do the wrong thing. Like, oh – fuck alien women. Even after knowing that doing so will create more. And that these women like attacking, killing, sometimes eating, and a lot of the time dragging dead/dying/injured women to the giant sperm.
So . . . um . . . what’s the opposite of misogyny? Heh, that’s love of women, I meant what means the same thing, but replace women with men. Ah, a misandrist. Misandry. (on a side note – interesting, I cannot find a quick one word word that actually means ‘love of women’ – I’m sure there is something, but not as quick to find as it is to find misogyny. When searching on Google. And only looking at the top three or five links).
Right. So, as I was saying – if anything, this comic seemed to have much more of a misandrist view. A hatred of men. Sure there were men who did some really dickish things in a misogynistic manner, some saying things that seem lifted from a misogynist playbook, but they were obvious dicks, and many of them died stupidly. This is kind of my point. Men are dicks, they say stupid things, even though they know it’s wrong, they can’t keep their dicks in their pants, even if fucking will cause death to people they supposedly love.
Oh, and there’s some mention about how there’s naked women throughout the series. And how they liked killing, specifically, the ‘ugly’ women. Personally, I found the human women a lot more attractive than the cow-eyed, parrot like, alien women. Though, to be frank, I’ve never been particularly . . . not sure what word I’m looking for here. I can think of a few, but I’m not going that direction. Hmm. Let’s try that again – to be frank, I’ve never found either of the men or women drawn by Luna to be overly attractive/gorgeous/handsome. They always seemed a little to . . . bland/blank/something or other.
But, to a large extent, I probably wouldn’t have had those thoughts about the misandrist/misogyny nature of the story if not for those thoughts being put into my brain from having seen them in reviews. I would have noticed some of the misogynist words, and the stupid – really really fucking stupid, actions of the men, but I am less likely to have focused on those thoughts and ideas if I hadn’t read those reviews.
I was thinking last night about what I could write here - only thing I could think of was that this one seemed like the worst of the volumes. I mean, I didn't always particularly like how things were going in volume 1 and 2, but I read everything. I found myself accidentally skipping conversations then going back. Skimming. Then purposely skipping. There's only so much ranting, angst, whinning, ranting, more angst, and more whinning I can take before I just start skipping things.
So, yeah, this specific volume is, in my mind at least, lower rated than the others. Except . . even if we had 1/5 stars, I'd not rate the others 3.5, and I wouldn't rate this one 2.5, so I have no real way of differenating this difference. So . . um . . they all be 3 stars.
Okay then. It had been hinted at in the prior volume, and hasn't been completely confirmed in this one, but the assumption could probably have been accepted from the beginning. They are in a dome like situation, An egg like invisible barrier that surrounds the entire town. Reflective on one side, see through on the inside.
So, many many naked women running around trying to either kill other women, fuck men, and, in their spare time, eat the dead. Well, occasionally. Mostly taking the dead back to the giant sperm that's in the cornfield. All this while everyone is trapped within a giant egg. Yay?
Man, every bloody time someone said 'it's going to be okay . . it's just going to be okay' I wanted to punch someone. Maybe not the writers, but it's a close call. I mean, they are the ones writing the words. But they are also the ones who show how stupid it is to keep saying that so . . ..
You know, this might have been an interesting series back when I didn't know what I was getting myself involved with. Naked woman. Man finds her. She may or may not be an alien. She may or may not be someone who escaped from psycho sexual perverts. All was possible by the end of the first issue. Start of the second issue changed all that when the clones appeared. Ah well.
I will, of course, continue reading this series. I mean, I already it, so I must. I'd suggest others save themselves. But hey, I don't know, maybe everything will pick up over the next two volumes. Perhaps.
Long long ago I read the first issue of Girls when it was offered free. Must mean something if the first issue involves a naked woman wandering around and is vaguely interesting. But I never attempted to read the second issue until today. Oh, that's right, that's because the main dude, the lead character, is massive dick. Whiny, immature, dick. So, yeah, I didn't continue until today.
I really had no specific desire to try this here series. But I'd read Luna's Alex + Ada, and, eventually, I broke down and decided to actually read this one here. So - just to get the order right, I read issue one of Girls, then everything in the Alex + Ada series, then back to first volume of Girls.
First off - Luna sure is obsessed with women who look like Girl and Ada. At least, in the sense that they look so bloody similar. Could very well be the same woman. I mean, same hair, body type, etc. Hmms. Looking at the covers, they don't look the same. But I recall them being quite similar when I was reading them. Well, at the very least, they could be sisters.
Okay then - this book started off with the weird little scene involving sperm. Yes, sperm. Swimming. Then moving on to a man. Man works in a store. Woman comes in. They flirt. Woman makes comments like "I'd like you to squeeze my cantaloupes". Man looks down at woman's breasts. Woman holds up cantaloupes for him to squeeze while saying that she never can figure out how to tell how ripe the fruit are. Man suggests going to a bar that night. Eventually the woman says she might go. Man says it's a date. Woman looks at him like he's the biggest loser on earth and says something like 'I meant, I might go with my parents.' Man looks like he's very confused.
I would not normally have so, both vaguely and graphically, described that scene, but it's the model for the rest of the book. Man's bloody clueless near women. Apparently dated one of them, then didn't speak to that one for six months. Bottled up his rage. Then unleashes it one night. Man gets tossed out of bar by cop. At roughly the same moment a big loud boom is heard. Man drives away.
While driving somewhat insanely down the road man almost runs over a naked woman. He pulls her into his car and drives her home. Instead of, you know, to the police station or a hospital or the like. Two rapist looking guys poke out of the forest holding guns (well, one had one, I forget if other had one as well). They look disappointed the naked girl got away.
One thing leads to another and naturally man fucks the naked woman. Because that's what you do when you find a naked woman in the road. One who appears so shell-shocked that all she seems capable of doing is occasionally repeating what you are saying. Though one or two 'things' are said that were repeated from others, though he doesn't know that at the time. So, as I said, naturally you would 1) take such a woman home instead of getting help for her and 2) fuck her.
Next morning arrives. There's some 'being sick' like noises from bathroom. Man wanders around in his boxers. One thing leads to another and the woman he used to date, who now dates the cop, the cop, and man are in man's home. Because man finally realized he probably should tell someone about the woman.
Man leads cop and Taylor inside (Taylor being the ex, the cop's named Wes, I forget the man's name; there we go - Ethan Daniels). So, Ethan goes to find named woman (no I can't now provide her name, naked woman has no name). Opens bathroom door. Finds naked woman on floor looking exhausted. Next to her are several rather large eggs. One thing leads to another and naked women who look like the first one spring out of said eggs. And immediately start hitting and smacking.
Sooo. This is one weird fucking comic, eh? Kept my attention and was vaguely interesting. If someone's read Alex + Ada, and liked it, I guess I'd recommend them to at least try the first issue - which is probably still free somewhere. Otherwise . . . I don't know if I'd recommend this naked women, giant sperm, giant egg comic series.
A snapshot of the life of celebrity superhero Ultra with even quicker looks at the lives of her two superhero friends Aphrodite and Cowgirl. I liked the magazine articles at the end of the issues more than the overall story; however, the story does have a lot to say about the current celebrity stalker-paparazzi culture we have. It also made comments re: why female superheroes are always so sexed up with their skimpy outfits...of course, they're also scantily clad here.
I would be interested in reading more -- what happens next with Ultra. Does she leave the celebrity superhero life behind her? Does she find true love or does she really just find herself? And why did she break up with Captain Steel?
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