Review: Danger Girl Gallery Edition
Regardless of the ever ongoing debate about which is most important to comic books, words or pictures, you can not escape the fact the comics are primarily a visual medium. If the art doesn’t entice, then reading a book, no matter how well written can become hard work.
J. Scott Campbell, as an artist, certainly has his detractors. The current trend of de-sexualising women infiltrates the mainstream in any number of ways. Yet Campbell, with his “curves on top of curves” style, remains unrepentant. Of course he is one of many artists who have made their fame and fortune drawing sexy, curvaceous women. In part this book is a celebration of this particular genre and Scott Campbell’s fine line work and eye for details, mixing with elements of outrageous, yet easy on the eye anatomy.
Danger Girl was a comic book series that centred around a group of female agents akin to James Bond and Charlie’s Angels. Think Totally Spies, with less clothes.Their adventures get them into all manner of scrapes. This book doesn’t contain any of the strips; for that check out the Danger Girl 20th Anniversary book. Instead this book collects the covers and various variants that have graced the comics. As such you get a minor deviations from Scott Campbell with the inclusion the work of Joe Maduriera, Humberto Ramos, Travis Charest, David Mack, Joe Quesada, the late Michael Turner and pin-up specialist Adam Hiughes. Each artist displays their own styles, whilst keeping the overall feel of the girls on point. Cheesecake poses are adding to various states of clothing choices, ranging from bikini’s and swimsuits all the way to latex like bodysuits, covering most fans preferred choice of attire, at least as far as it goes for a group of female spies come adventurers.
The idea behind the art, taking the female form to extremes, may well not sit right for a lot of people. Hey, each to their own, right? Flicking through this book doesn’t make me devalue any of the women in life. It is after all art.a and gorgeous art at that. Fans of the Girls may well have a number of the covers already in their collection. That said, there is something attractive about having these covers in one volume.
Art – 5 Stars
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Art by; J. Scott Campbell, Joe Maduriera, Humberto Ramos, Travis Charest, David Mack, Joe Quesada, Michael Turner. Adam Hiughes
Published by; IDW
Author Profile
- I am a long time comic book fan, being first introduced to Batman in the mid to late 70's. This led to a appreciation of classic artists like Neal Adams and Jim Aparo. Moving through the decades that followed, I have a working knowledge of a huge raft of characters with a fondness for old school characters like JSA and The Shadow
Currently reading a slew of Bat Books, enjoying a mini Marvel revival, and the host of The Definative Crusade and Outside the Panels whilst also appearing on No-Prize Podcast on the Undercover Capes Podcast Network
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