Cover Girl [Paperback]

Andrew Cosby (Author), Kevin Church (Author), Mateus Santolouco (Illustrator), Rafael Albuquerque (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2008

Experience the tongue-in-cheek action adventure sensation that Newsarama called "some of the wittiest comic dialog ...in a long time." He's Alex Martin, the down-on-his-luck actor whose star is rising thanks to a roadside rescue caught on tape. She's Rachel Dodd, the bodyguard assigned to keep him alive after several mysterious attempts on his life. Will Rachel be able to keep Alex alive long enough to get to the bottom of the attacks on the actor? Will Alex be able to keep his hair perfect the entire time? Andrew Cosby (Sci-Fi's Eureka, X Isle) and Kevin Church (Cthulhu Tales, What Were They Thinking?!?) team up with artists Mateus Santolouco, R.M. Yankovicz and others to tell the story of two people that are trying to stay alive now, if only to kill each other later. Collecting all five issues.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

When struggling Hollywood actor Alex Martin rescues a woman from a mysterious, almost fatal accident, he becomes an instant star—and also finds that a murderous cabal is out to kill him, too. His studio assigns some high-powered bodyguards, most notably this book's title character: wiseacre Rachel Dodd, who looks like arm candy and shoots like James Bond. If you imagine that the two of them will despise each other at first, then bond through a series of action-comedy escapades (in the course of which Rachel will wear skimpy outfits and fire big guns) until romance blossoms between them, you are almost entirely right. It's unabashedly an odd-couple comedy pasted onto an action flick, and self-aware about it. Still, Cosby and Church get in some clever jabs at the movie business and its cults of personality, and the frothy script has the sort of densely packed badinage beloved by readers of Church's online comic strip, the Rack. Santolouco's artwork is at the cruder, cartoonier end of the generic mainstream continuum—he sometimes favors dramatic angles to make up for his dodgy grasp of anatomy—but the story zips along as amusingly as the B-movies it parodies and pastiches. (Mar.)
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From the Publisher

"One of the Top 5 Graphic Novels of the year" - Comics Should Be Good

"4.5 stars out of 5 stars earning it a spot in the Major Spoilers Trades You Should Own." - Major Spoilers

"...the story zips along as amusingly as the B-movies it parodies and pastiches." - Publisher's Weekly

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: BOOM! Studios (April 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934506273
• ISBN-13: 978-1934506271
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,473,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good comic, April 30, 2008

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gargunkle (Pittsburgh, PA, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cover Girl (Paperback)

I read many comic trade paperbacks. This one was a lot of fun. It doesn't have any superheroes if that's your thing. It plays out more like a comedy/action movie, and does it well. I look forward to more, if there will be any.

My only possible complaint is the size (it's somewhere between normal "comic" size and the smaller "digest" size), but it doesn't really detract from the contents.