Danger Girl: DANGEROUS VISIONS 3-D!
J. Scott Campbell & Andy Hartnell (w) • J. Scott Campbell (a & c)
The first issue of J. Scott Campbell’s Danger Girl (plus the original preview story) is presented in glorious full color 3-D—or as we like to describe it… DANGERVISION! Plus, as an added bonus, we are showcasing an incredible gallery section making this a true 3-D Extravaganza!
FC • 48 pages • $6.99
J. Scott Campbell’s Danger Girl Gallery Edition Danger Girl Pin-up Book
J. Scott Campbell (a & c)
J. Scott Campbell is renowned for his gorgeous art and stunningly realized covers. This collection (available in a standard size square bound prestige format as well as in a deluxe, oversized hardcover) features 64 pages crammed full of Campbell’s Danger Girl covers and pin-ups. As an added bonus, several notable “guest stars” are included in this collection, providing their own beautifully executed version of the Danger Girl team: Adam Hughes, Travis Charest, Joe Madureira, Arthur Adams, Joe Quesada, David Mack, and more. A fine addition to any fan of Danger Girl and the art of J. Scott Campbell!
HC • FC • 64 pages • 8” x 12” • $24.99
J. Scott Campbell’s Danger Girl Gallery Edition Danger Girl Pin-up Book
J. Scott Campbell (a & c)
J. Scott Campbell is renowned for his gorgeous art and stunningly realized covers. This collection (available in a standard size square bound prestige format as well as in a deluxe, oversized hardcover) features 64 pages crammed full of Campbell’s Danger Girl covers and pin-ups. As an added bonus, several notable “guest stars” are included in this collection, providing their own beautifully executed version of the Danger Girl team: Adam Hughes, Travis Charest, Joe Madureira, Arthur Adams, Joe Quesada, David Mack, and more. A fine addition to any fan of Danger Girl and the art of J. Scott Campbell!
HC • FC • 64 pages • 8” x 12” • $24.99
J. Scott Campbell’s Danger Girl: 20th Anniversary!
J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell (w) • J. Scott Campbell (a & cover)
It’s been 20 years since Danger Girl #1 exploded onto the comics scene, and IDW is celebrating in a unique way! We’re presenting J. Scott Campbell‘s pencils from the preview story and first issue—all scanned from the artist’s personal archives—for the FIRST TIME. A true rarity if there ever was one! Also in this prestige collection, the preview and issue #1 stories inked and colored, offering fans a chance to peruse both versions! If you love J. Scott Campbell’s art—and who doesn’t?—you’ll be able to see Danger Girl like never before, and in its purest form!
FC • 88 pages • $9.99
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Danger Girl is to most a misunderstood comic book franchise. Many judge the book by its cover and dispel it before reading a single panel and give it the same criticism that many other female led comics get -it is labeled as silly or exploitative and never really given a chance. It is true that it is silly, but it is designed as a parody of the spy franchise and any parody has to contain some level of humor. What is not understood is the exploitation, which is evidently there but not to the degree that most assume. The female characters are sometimes treated as caricatures of female characters in espionage films, but the male characters are actually far more over-the-top. Johnny Barracuda could be easily considered to be more offensive to male readers than Sydney or Abbey could be to female ones. Furthermore, while the Danger Girls are drawn in revealing clothing, it should also be noted that their costumes are actually far less revealing than most comic book superheroines. The entire franchise could then be said to be one which is somewhat misunderstood and underappreciated.
Because of that the series has never really caught on, although it does have its fans. There have been a few ongoing plot elements that have never really been explored, but chief among those is Abbey’s background. As is evident in this first issue, it is not as though Abbey is an amnesiac and cannot remember anything from her younger years, rather it is just that she does not understand what the events of those early years signify. There have been other developments that have been hinted at in previous series, but there have never really been any answers.
There are no real answers here either, but they are ready to be explored, or so it would seem. The setup to revealing Abbey’s past is handled well here as there are no immediate revelations, but rather true to the life of a spy, her secrets have secrets, and the introduction to her past in this issue is thus handled well, giving a glimpse, albeit a short one, into her past and how she is tied to the others. The only drawback one could identify from this series is that the other members of the Danger Girl team are missing, though that doesn’t seem to be something that will continue through the series. At the moment this is a fun introduction to a question that fans of the series have always had and it will be interesting to see what the creators have in store for the remainder of the series.
Story: Andy Hartnell Art: Stephen Molnar
Story: 8.4 Art: 8.4 Overall: 8.4 Recommendation: Buy
IDW provided Graphic Policy with a free copy for review.
Over the course of its publication history, Danger Girl has been a fun if not always too serious take on the espionage genre. It was originally conceived as a parody of James Bond, and built itself on the concept that it would put the Bond Girls in the spotlight, only that instead of passive doe-eyed victims that they would be lively doe-eyed spark plugs. The team of three has faced off against a variety of threats, but laying in the background for all of them has been H.A.M.M.E.R., the shadowy group inspired by cartoonish Nazis. In the very first story of the team, Abbey Chase was recruited to the team as they were led into the hands of H.A.M.M.E.R. Soon after they were betrayed by one of their own as knife-wielding Russian assassin Natalia was revealed to be a sleeper agent for this nefarious group, and her double cross almost resulted in the deaths of the other two team members. Natalia was ultimately defeated and seemingly killed and the team went on saving the world.
In the course of its travels though, both H.A.M.M.E.R. and Natalia have shown up repeatedly, though this is the first series which focuses specifically on Natalia’s return. In so doing, the series has also focused primarily on Abbey as well, much as it always has. Abbey was the one that had supposedly killed Natalia and was the one for whom revenge was promised at some point. Over the course of this miniseries, this confrontation has been played to, and in terms of this resolution here, it is maybe what the reader would be expecting and maybe not, but it is still handled well enough.
Alternate Cover
In terms of the actual series though, this maybe ends up taking itself too seriously. It was built on being a little bit serious, but also lampooning the genre as well which makes women into so much of eye candy. While the Danger Girls are comic book women, the series is equal in its treatment of the male characters, with overly masculine Deuce that is the rip-off of Sean Connery, overly lascivious Johnny Barracuda who is the rip-off of Bond, and overly violent Agent X who is a rip-off of every other mad killing machine from the movies. That is to say, that a big part of the dynamic in this series is the almost goofy nature of the interaction of all of the characters and as this series lacks most of them that it ends up being a part of what it could be. Even Sydney is all but absent as this focuses mostly on Natalia and Abbey.
The end result is pleasing but still a bit of a letdown. So much of this series relies not on the storytelling but on the characters. The settings and the plots are absurd, but it is the characters that flesh them out and give them life. This element was missing for this whole series, instead relying on some more traditional espionage elements that one might expect from a 1960s television. Fans of the group probably won’t be disappointed, but they will probably not praise this either, except maybe as the setting for more that is to come.
Story: Andy Hartnell Art: John Royle
Story: 7.6 Art: 8.2 Overall: 7.6 Recommendation: Read
The Adventures of Augusta Wind #1 (of 5)
J.M. DeMatteis (w) • Vassilis Gogtzilas (a & c)
Augusta Webster thought she was an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in an ordinary town. But that was before the Snabbit—half-snake/half-rabbit—arrived to turn Augusta’s world upside down and reveal that she’s anything but ordinary. A new all-ages fantasy from J.M. DeMatteis, creator of Abadazad, with astonishing art by Vassilis Gogtizilas.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Contropussy
Emma Caulfield & Camilla Outzen Rantsen (w) • Christian Meesey & Thomas Mauer (a) Christian Meesey (c)
From Emma Caulfield, the popular actress who portrayed Anya on Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and co-writer Camilla Rantsen, comes Contropussy, a story about a cat with a major itch to scratch. By day she is a mild mannered feline, but by night she comes alive, adventuring in the city, eventually finding herself a pawn in political schemes.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 128 pages • 8.25” x 6.25” • ISBN 978-1-61377-482-3
The Crow #5 (of 5)
John Shirley (w) • Kyle Hotz (a & c)
“There Are Many Hells.” The Crow in Tokyo. The Crow searching for the stolen soul of his lost love—the search taking him on a blood-red trail of vengeance. In order to set her free, the Crow must now do important things, like descend into the layered hell of Japanese Buddhist mythology. Then he must find the living body of his beloved… and kill it. The Crow’s return concludes in explosive fashion here!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Danger Girl Danger-Sized Treasury Edition #3
J. Scott Campbell & Andy Hartnell (w) • J. Scott Campbell (a & c)
The final two chapters of the original Danger Girl series are collected here in their entirety—72 danger-sized pages wrapped in an amazing gatefold cover by Campbell! It’s cover to cover non-stop action, and all in our gigantic treasury format—if you’ve never seen these luscious-ladies deliciously delineated at this size by Campbell then you’ve never seen Danger Girl—get this while the getting is good!
FC • 72 pages • 9.25” x 14.25” • $9.99
Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms #5
Ed Greenwood (w) • Lee Ferguson & Sal Buscema (a) • Steve Ellis (c)
Randral, Torn, and Talandra fled Waterdeep for the wilderness. Only to learn, as the sinister intrigues they fled reach after them, that they’ve arrived in a place where outlaws and marauding monsters lurk—a place that’s called the Ghost Holds for good reasons. Now they just have to get out of it alive.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Frankenstein Alive, Alive! #2
Steve Niles (w) • Bernie Wrightson (a & c)
Legendary artist Bernie Wrightson returns to Frankenstein with a comic series that picks up at the end of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic novel, hailed as one of the greatest horror stories of all time. Frequent Wrightson collaborator Steve Niles provides the script for this epic, decades in the making.
B&W • 32 pages • $3.99
A Man Named Hawken
Benjamin Truman & Timothy Truman (w) • Timothy Truman (a & c)
Once there was an Old Man who rode a blind mule on The Road of Death.
Scalp-hunter, raider, killer-for- hire: Kit Hawken has been a bad man for most of his long life. Scalped, tortured, and left for dead by the mysterious order called The Ring, Hawken returns, seeking vengeance… aided by Shanghai Mary, a shrewd, opium dealing brothel manager… trailed by Sombre, the deformed, psychotic murderer who was once Kit Hawken’s protege… and surrounded by the ghosts of every person he’s ever killed! Are the phantoms real, or illusions from Hawken’s blood- soaked past?
TPB • B&W • $19.99 • 148 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-409-0
Judge Dredd #1
Duane Swierczynski (w) • Nelson Daniel, Paul Gulacy (a) • Zach Howard, Ashley Wood, Jim Starlin, Whilce Portacio (c)
In the 22nd century, crime runs rampant in Mega-City One, home to over 400 million citizens, robots, criminals and lunatics. The only line of defense between anarchy and chaos are… the Judges. And Judge Dredd is the toughest of them all. In this, Judge Dredd’s 35th anniversary year, IDW is proud to re-introduce Judge Dredd to America in this all-new ongoing series.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Kiss #6
Chris Ryall (w) • Wagner Reis (a) • Sam Shearon, Jamal Igle (c)
The girls (?!) in Kiss go up against the “phantom” Abner Devereaux and Christine Sixteen… and one of the Four-Who-Are-One won’t make it out alive!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom #4 (of 4)
Mark Waid (w) • Chris Samnee (a & c)
Cliff Secord, AKA, the Rocketeer, finds himself flying high over the smog-drenched skies of Los Angeles, locked in mortal combat with an ancient and terrifying creature… and then it all starts to go to Hell! Plus, the ultimate truth about Peevy’s niece is revealed! The final issue of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s Rocketeer series is going full throttle and the thrills show no signs of slowing down—miss this comic at your own peril!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Snake Eyes & Stormshadow #19
Chuck Dixon (w) • Alex Cal (a) • Alex Cal (c)
TARGET: SNAKE EYES part four! Is the mission to bring down the Arashikage Clan a matter of national security or a private vendetta for SCARLETT? And, when it comes to a life or death battle with SNAKE EYES, who will walk away? The answers lie here in the most game-changing, controversial G.I. JOE storyline this year!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Star Trek #15
Mike Johnson (w) • Stephen Molnar (a) • Tim Bradstreet (c)
The countdown to next year’s STAR TREK sequel continues here, in an all-new re-imagining of the classic “Mirror Universe” story! Witness the transformation of the new Enterprise crew in part one of this blockbuster story, overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Ongoing #11
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Nick Roche (c)
SHADOWLAND CONCLUDES! And it’s the end of an era when, on pre-war CYBERTRON, enemies close in on all sides and Orion Pax—the future OPTIMUS PRIME—selects a team of AUTOBOTS to help him pull off the ultimate heist—with the fate of the planet hanging in the balance!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #11
John Barber (w) • Guido Guidi (a) • Andrew Griffith, Casey Coller (c)
CYBERTRON IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE! Tensions ratchet up between AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS as violence breaks out in the heart of the city… and PROWL looks for someone to blame. Is DIRGE a convenient target—or the key to what comes next? Plus… an old friend comes back home.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
The Cape: 1969 #1 (of 4)
Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella (w) • Nelson Daniel (a) • Zach Howard (c)
It’s 1969 and the war in Vietnam rages on. Captain Chase, a Medevac helicopter pilot for the US Army, is shot down over enemy territory. He and his crew are in a fight for their lives as they play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Vietcong. We soon learn that machine guns and grenades aren’t the only scary things hiding in the jungle. Find out what happens in this origin prequel to last year’s Eisner Award-nominated hit, with story by Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella, and art and colors by Nelson Daniel (Road Rage, The Cape). Explore your dark side.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Danger Girl: The DANGER-SIZED Treasury Edition #2
J. Scott Campbell, Andy Hartnell (w) • J. Scott Campbell ( a & c)
The second Danger-sized treasury collects issues 3, 4 and 5 of the original best-selling series by Campbell & Hartnell, for the very first time in at this gigantic format! Thrill to the super-sexy adventures of Abbey, Sydney and Natalia (along with Johnny Barracuda) as they fight the nefarious Major Maxim and the rest of the Hammer Syndicate—the evil organization hellbent on achieving world domination—plus a great cover gallery!
FC Cardstock $9.99 72 pages 9.25” x 14.25”
Doctor Who Classics Series IV #6 (of 6)
Jamie Delano (w) • John Ridgway (a & c)
IDW’s newly recolored reprints of classic Doctor Who tales from years past, this time featuring the SIXTH DOCTOR, concludes! The Doctor, Peri, and Frobisher deliver a present to a jazzy birthday bash, only to unleash a self-replicating robot that threatens the planet in “The Gift.”
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Dorothy Of Oz Prequel #3 (of 4)
Denton J. Tipton (w) • Blair Shedd (a) • Eric Shanower (c)
Based on the upcoming animated film Dorothy Of Oz! Building on the world created in the celebrated children’s book by Roger Stanton Baum, Dorothy Of Oz will tell the tale of Dorothy’s return to the Land of Oz. But first, read here about what events transpired to necessitate Dorothy’s return, and witness the rise of the Jester!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
G.I.JOE: A Real American Hero #180
Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant (a) • Herb Trimpe, Gallant (c)
In this special issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, G.I. JOE goes to SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL! After being provided with pivotal information, G.I. JOE travel to San Diego in order to stop a plot to exchange nuclear clearance codes within the confines of the SDCC. Will G.I. JOE save the day in time? You can’t miss this convention-tastic issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Popeye #3 (of 4)
Roger Langridge (w) • Tom Neely (a & c)
When Swee’Pea runs away from home and gets hooked up with a gang of kids from The Wrong Side of the Tracks, Popeye has to go after him… taking on all comers along the way! Can Popeye find Swee’Pea before he gets a tattoo? PLUS: back-up shenanigans with those stick-figure funsters, Pete and Patsy!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #7
John Barber (w) • Brendan Cahill (a) • Andrew Griffith, Casey Coller (c)
DECEPTICON MONTH! Fan-favorite character TURMOIL returns from the dead—but what does he want on CYBERTRON? The AUTOBOTS don’t want another DECEPTICON on their planet and the DECEPTICONS don’t want things to get any worse… but what Wheeljack discovers about the DECEPTICON warlord will change everything!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
