The Trouble With Girls - Volume 2 [Paperback]

Will Jacobs (Author), Gerard Jones (Author), Tim Hamilton (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 2006

Spawned from the late 80's halcyon days in comics, this hilarious romp pokes unapologetic fun at everyone and lives to tell about it, laying waste to the James Bond super agent stereotype years before Austin Powers. How much adventure can one man take? Collects issues 8-14 of the hilarious Malibu series.

Editorial Reviews

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The jokes in this comic book start with the hero s name, Lester Girls and form an ironic, tongue-in-cheek tone consistent throughout. This is definitely a quick, fun read, with none of the, let s spread the story out through twelve volumes, action that you get with some Manga. Sheri Harper --Compulsive Reader

Any book that starts off with its main character perched on the toilet eagerly reading Steinbeck is worth looking into. An opening scene like that shows a level of humor as well as class, and not just any comic book collaborators could pull it off. Mia Voelker --Paperback Reader

What recommends the writing on Girls, however, is the fun the writers are having satirizing a subgenre they obviously love -- fun that is easily translated to readers. Michael Vance --Rambles

About the Author

Will Jacobs is a Checker Publishing author.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group (October 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933160462
• ISBN-13: 978-1933160467
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,305,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lampoons countless literary sacred cows, July 12, 2008

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This review is from: The Trouble With Girls - Volume 2 (Paperback)

In the latter years of the 1980s a series of comics from Malibu Comics did something now other comic book publisher was able to accomplish to such critically acclaimed success -- lampoon the well established international action/adventure characters as represented by the likes of James Bond and other extraordinary spies, CIA operatives, FBI agents, and government sanctioned hit men. Now all of these long out of print and unavailable issues have been collected together into two graphic novel anthologies. Volume 1 comprises the first seven issues of this remarkable series beginning with its debut in 1987. Volume 2 offers issues 8 through 14. Together they present the story of Lester Girls, a man who must suffer the attentions of countless beautiful women, have fancy cars, palatial estates, and overwhelming wealth imposed upon him. All Lester wants is a simple life with a loving wife and a small town in which to enjoy them both. Alas, no matter his desires, he and his sidekick and friend Apache Dick (plus Lester's mischievous two nephews) are constantly attacked by every manner of villain and villainess. Then there is 'Scoops', a determined young lady reporter seeking to uncover Lester's personal story. A masterpiece of satire from beginning to end, "The Trouble With Girls" is intended for and enthusiastically recommended to a mature readership who appreciates the well crafted and thoroughly entertaining lampooning of countless literary sacred cows arising from the hero and villain stereotypes that at the core of contemporary comics and movies.