Miss Kitty Fantastico
01-12-2008, 09:32 AM
I did a quick search for a thread on this, and couldn't find one, so... did anyone else brave the condescending grin of the salesperson at the comic shop and get Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter #0? If so, what did you think?
Me, I think the covers are going to hurt this title unfairly. I love Greg Horn dearly, his covers are artistically lovely and often a hell of a lot of fun for their own sake, but they're also cheesecake city, and putting that on a book with Jenna Jameson's name on the cover... it just seems like it's inviting people to prejudge it to be shallow T&A without even opening looking inside. In fact, the interviews and preview pages suggest a fairly cerebral supernatural horror/action story, but I can't see that kind of audience bothering to look inside a comic that, on the surface, looks like Barb Wire with demons.
The 'explorations' gallery by Mukesh Singh in the back of #0 looks like it'd make better covers to me - so far as can be told from a few preview pages and some short interviews, those images seem more like they're accurately suggesting what you'd find inside, if they were on a cover. (Call me a cynic, but I wonder if they were meant to be covers, and someone at Virgin decided to go the cheesecake option instead, since it fit most people's preconceptions about Jameson anyway - if so, that's doing her and especially the comic a disservice.)
Anyone else?
Me, I think the covers are going to hurt this title unfairly. I love Greg Horn dearly, his covers are artistically lovely and often a hell of a lot of fun for their own sake, but they're also cheesecake city, and putting that on a book with Jenna Jameson's name on the cover... it just seems like it's inviting people to prejudge it to be shallow T&A without even opening looking inside. In fact, the interviews and preview pages suggest a fairly cerebral supernatural horror/action story, but I can't see that kind of audience bothering to look inside a comic that, on the surface, looks like Barb Wire with demons.
The 'explorations' gallery by Mukesh Singh in the back of #0 looks like it'd make better covers to me - so far as can be told from a few preview pages and some short interviews, those images seem more like they're accurately suggesting what you'd find inside, if they were on a cover. (Call me a cynic, but I wonder if they were meant to be covers, and someone at Virgin decided to go the cheesecake option instead, since it fit most people's preconceptions about Jameson anyway - if so, that's doing her and especially the comic a disservice.)
Anyone else?