The Compleat Sally Forth [Paperback]

Wallace Wood (Author), Bill Pearson (Author)

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• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books; First Edition edition (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560972912
• ISBN-13: 978-1560972914
• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 10.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,932,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Silly adventure with its shirt off, May 18, 2008

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This review is from: The Compleat Sally Forth (Paperback)

Wally wood wrote these comics under government contract (!). In the 70s, the army published the Overseas Weekly for the enlisted men. Back then, they were pretty much all men, so the babe buck nekkid was a weekly obligation - something that would never fly these days, for lots of good reasons.

So, the Co-ed Commandos, including Sally, her commanding office Q.P.Dahl (the little guy on the cover) and a friendly Martian named Snork went from one bumbling adventure with blithering officers to the next: to Mars, to the micro-nation of Rottenbad, to some anonymous banana republic, and more. That included plenty of satire on then-current news and media events, like the Amazon planet ruled by lecherous Booberella. The "libbers" came in for plenty of ribbing too - Wood decided that bra-burning wasn't nearly enough and made the most of it.

Although these comics targeted adult men, there really isn't anything too raw here. Sally herself is a witless bimbo, a stereotype that led one current artist to turn down the job of cover design for this edition. It's not a comic from or about our time, though. Instead, it combines broad humor, social satire, jibes at the military hierarchy, and unclothed (but figleafed) babes, all in Woods's signature visual style. If you can suspend judgement of today's "politically correct" sorts, you'll find plenty to enjoy.

-- wiredweird