50 Girls 50 #1 Review

Title:	50 Girls 50
Contributors:	Frank Cho Doug Murray Axel Medellin
Publisher:	Image Comics
Issue #:	1
Year:	2011
Pages:	32 Pages
Age Rating:	13+ (Sci-fi Violence, Adult Themes)
Story Grade:	C
Art Grade:	B

50 Girls 50 is based on a simple premise, men can't travel through wormholes because of the Y chromosome. So with that in mind a bunch of hot, intelligent women are sent to explore the possibility of life on another planet, but on the trip home things go wrong and they arrive at a location other than earth. So what do they do? They put on their plastic space suits, grab their plastic weapons, jump in their plastic landing craft and explore the new world. With everything made of plastic in space, what could possibly go wrong?

Come to find out the new world's atmosphere has some compounds and elements (some which can't be identified) in it that melts plastics so it doesn't take long and all the plastic is melted. Ooops... they're almost naked, left with only loincloth covering the naughty their bits for the remainder of the book.

It's a fun ride to read, but don't expect to much sustenance. It reads more like a mix of 70s pulp crossed with a Dear Penthouse Letter. For the most part, the decision making abilities of these Ph.D. holding women is limited to a bunch of horny-non-Ph.D.-holding men obviously looking for the easiest way to get these buxom ladies out of their space suits, which leads to poor decision making and huge plot holes, but if you can look past that, suspend your belief system for 20 minutes, you to might have some fun with this book.

The artwork is great Sci-fi work by Axel Medellin. Medellin draws some great creatures, alien worlds and space ships. The details are wonderful and the colors are bright and well balanced. The ladies are drawn in standard fare; big bulbous butts, buxom bosoms, muscular, hippy, you know... how most ladies are drawn for sexiest sci-fi soft-core. To be honest, I am sure that feminist are rolling over in their collective graves at this book.

All-in-all I graded this book a C+. It was a fun read, but it isn't something that I would keep in my collection, not even in my guilty pleasure section. The story was okay, a standard fare, and the art was nice to look at, but it isn't a keeper.

Until next time... happy plastic melting.