Abby Chase goes to her DOOM!

[prysmicdork]

Next to feel the er heat of the axe - Danger Girl. I really want to like its cheesecake referential humor more than I do, but without anything to give it a change of pace all that gets old fast. And its weird, I mean, I really shouldn't object to half naked well drawn women, should I? Except somehow in this context I do, because for whatever reason alot of it feels offensive. Like, instead of being sexy with its cheesecakeness its all "heh! boobies!", which yeah, again it gets old fast.
Although it totally gets points for using the word DOOM (in capitol letters no less) at the end of every previously on.
Plus I may be kind of bitter that Natalia turns out to be evil, which, gah, its totally a precursor to the whole Lauren thing (except thankfully without the love triangle crap) that the character I like most turns out to be a bad guy and a double agent. It could be that the whole thing turns out to be a ruse later, I just don't have the patience to find out.
I have the feeling that its sort of sibling title Battlechasers is going to follow it to its...DOOM!

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[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? ;) *has never heard of any of these things* >.<

Help me, I watched all the DVD trailers for buffy seasons 1-6 and angel seasons 1-3 that they ohsocleverly insert as special features and now I want them all! Am very daft!

[prysmicdork.livejournal.com]

Comic books. ;)

Danger Girl, Battlechasers and Crimson were three titles of a publisher called Cliffhanger (which was maybe associated with, but not directly under the control of Image, I can't remember). They were put out by three artists who everyone liked on already established titles with the idea that people would like them even more doing their own thing (Campbell of Danger Girl came from Gen13, Madureira of Battlechasers came from Uncanny X-men and Humberto Ramos um, did lots of stuff but I can't think of one in particular).
I guess they were trying to replicate the Image phenomenon, be the next Todd Mcfarlanes or whatever. And then basically they turned out to be just really good artists, the writing on all three was always fairly lame, but it was not publishing regularly that killed them (which is interesting because it doesn't do that for everybody, but its different I guess when you're trying build an imprint's reputation) - er not literally of course.
It was the trend of the late 90s in comics, imo, that once an artist (much more often than a writer, again with exceptions) became popular they'd go off and try and work on their own original ideas (instead of working on an established title). It doesn't really seem to be happening that way anymore (not that I have my finger on the pulse of the comics industry) or at least not as frequently and instead already well known people seem to be doing work on established titles (like when Jim Lee - you've probably seen some of his older x-men stuff around - did a run on Batman).
Although in some ways my perceptions have changed because of the change in my comic book reading habits. I'm less likely to look for something by a particular artist, than I am by a particular writer.

And wow, that was way more than you wanted to know I'm sure. ;)

Ahahaha, thats so sneaky of them!

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

Ohh. Right. At least it all makes sense now. ;)

I KNOW! Evil sods! Why did I watch them, Alex, why? ;)