One of the longest running independent series of all time The Trouble With Girls created by Will Jacobs and Eisner award winning writer Gerard Jones. Originally published by Malibu, this groundbreaking serise crossed all the lines.
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Lester Girls wants a mundane life—Cs in school, dead-end job, plain wife—and more than anything else, a good night's sleep. It's not his fault that he can't go for a drive without terrorists launching missiles at him, or walk into one of his many mansions without a beautiful, talented, buxom woman reposing half-dressed on his bed. He's so dashing and capable he just can't shake the fame and fortune. Poor Mr. Girls is the creation of nonfiction authors Jacobs and Jones, a lost gem of late '80s comics, hence the occasional mullet on view. Rescued from obscurity, the first seven issues of the comic show not only an intelligent James Bond satire but a genuinely endearing hero whose plight, however absurd, we can't help sympathizing with. Hamilton's clean, linear art evokes classic superhero comics. In one stunning four-page set piece, Apache Dick, a Girls analogue who loves the high life, launches an escape that starts with pole-vaulting the Great Wall of China and ends with crawling from the smoking wreckage of a kamikaze plane muttering only, "bungalow." The Trouble with Girls is satire with restraint, charming and hilarious. (Dec.)
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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Lampoons countless literary sacred cows,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Trouble With Girls Volume 1 (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.
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