( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Apr 22 2008
More issues of Danger Girl. If you know the Danger Girls, you know what you're into with this one. Is more of the same adventures of these girls trying to save the world at the most pure Charlie's Angels or James Bond style. The only thing I complain about in this issue is that Sydney doesn't have more action, and that maybe there could be more explanation on the snipper. I'm not going to reveal too much, but there's a moment in which Sydney says something like "Ok, she was wrong, now she's done right, but still we have to turn her". Was she laid to? That's why she was doing the wrong thing and then decides to do the right one? Or did the Danger Gils "convince" her to do what she ends doing? That didn't seem clear to me.
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Posted: Jan 5 2008
I loved the original Danger Girl and have enjoyed the subsequent one-shots that have come out (collected in Danger Girl: Odd Jobs (Danger Girl)), and when a new volume comes out, I just have to check it out. Body Shots does not disappoint by any means, standing up to the usual Danger Girl Standard of naughty spy fun. Here's the plot: Abbey and Sidney are enjoying a little R&R (and looking to buy a house in Australia) when a new international crisis hits: someone apparently has control of the "Master Key," a device that can detonate any nuclear device on earth on a whim, and is setting off bombs in order to hold the world ransom. As the Danger Girl team tries to track down the device, they find themselves at odds against a beautiful lady sniper and some heavies in the U.S. Army. Can the girls save the earth in time? I think we all know the answer. Now, of course, we don't read the Danger Girl comics because they're fantastically deep comics - they're fun to read and have great art, and that's their appeal. Though J. Scott Campbell now seems to have totally severed his connection to Danger Girl (he contributes no art, plot or story to this volume, but is still noted as one of the creators, with writer Andy Hartnell), Nick Bradshaw's pencils (in a neo-pseudo-manga style) do a fantastic job of capturing the original energy and verve of Campbell's vision, albeit in a sort of cartoony style. There are times when the dialogue verges on the cringe-worthy (especially when Hartnell tries to do some "A Few Good Men"-type moments), but overall the plot will hold your interest, and the art will wow you. A great addition to the Danger Girl series. Pick it up - you won't be sorry.
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 28 2007
I think the two things that made the original Danger Girl run so much fun were the unapologetic campiness and the exaggerated artwork. Still, those need to be applied judiciously, and tied together with an engaging plot, and "Back in Black" didn't do that. The artwork just doesn't do it for me. The body work seems to be going more for the Abercrombie and Fitch work than anything. The high fashion influence on Johnny, Zero and Deuce is a little bit irritating -- they were better when they were ripped, and had chests. The chest thing goes for the girls too. What we get a lot of are gazes averted to the top corners of the pages and really big mouths. If you took Lar Desouza's art and cleaned it up, but left it every bit as obnoxious as ever, you'd have a pretty close approximation to the artwork in "Back in Black". In short: The story isn't as fun, the art isn't as fun, the jokes aren't as funny, but it's still Danger Girl (and I'll take it).
