| Title: | Girls |
| Contributors: | Joshua Luna Jonathan Luna |
| Publisher: | Image Comics |
| Issue #: | 1 - 24 |
| Year: | 2005 - 2006 |
| Pages: | 32 Pages |
| Age Rating: | 18 (Language, Violence, Gore, Nudity, Sex, Adult Themes) |
| Story Grade: | B |
| Art Grade: | B |
Girls #1 was the first digital comic I downloaded from Comixology. It was free and it looked interesting. That free, and legal, download lead me to purchasing the entire 24 issue run, in old school paper form, immediately after reading issue one. Since then, I have used the digital medium as a tool for checking a series out before committing to buying anything, but if I like the first issue, I always buy paper.
The story is about a guy who lives in Pennystown (pronounced Penis-Town). This guy seems to always misread women's cues, basically thinking that all women want to have sex with him and this ultimately leads to trouble. One night after getting kicked out of a bar he stumbles across an woman, naked and wounded, in the middle of the road and he takes her home and there is no misreading the cues that this "girl" is giving. From there things go hell for the entire town real quick.
The story is a cross between Stephen King's "Under the Dome" and John Wyndham's "Village of the Damned". The key to remember here is this book was published a few years before Stephen King's novel, so they didn't appear to lift any themes from him at all, but makes me wonder if King might have gotten some inspiration for his novel from this series, because there are some similarities.
The series is a great read with compelling characters that you love, hate, hate to love and love to hate. I will warn you, as a guy reading this, the first book left me feeling a little dirty, it felt very misogynistic and I didn't like the main character much at all. But book two really turns itself around and opens all of the characters up a little more, but even then, there are moments where the story really paints both men and women in very strong, derogatory and often stereotypical roles.
The artwork is well done, computer-styled, with a lot of depth-of-field application. The DoF styling might have been an attempt at applying some cinematic styles to comic, but just like every scene of a movie doesn't work with a shallow depth of field, it doesn't work with every panel of these books. Being more selective with the use and applying it more creatively would have been beneficial. But I enjoyed the art as a whole.
This series is for mature readers, 18 and older. It contains nudity, sex, violence, and some gore. It tends to have moments of strong misogynistic tendencies throughout the series and could truly leave an impressionable mind with the wrong message. It remains a fun read, even when all of the women of the town go on a rampage wanting kill all of the men, and cutting off the reproductive organs.
I graded this series a solid B. It was an entertaining read and worth price of admission for the back issues. The story was fresh for it's time and the art was a bold attempt at applying some style.
Until next time, Happy Pulling.
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