World Famous Comics: Shanna, The She-Devil Premiere HC
Shanna, The She-Devil Premiere HC
By: Frank Cho By: Frank Cho Publisher: Marvel Comics Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Marvel Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 168 Publication Date: December 07, 2005
Product Description: She's bold, she's beautiful, and she's your best hope of escaping the raptors nipping at your heels. She's Shanna, the She Devil! Award-winning creator Frank Cho brings you Marvel's bodacious jungle girl as you've never seen her before: Reborn from Nazi science gone mad to battle her genetic destiny on an island full of prehistoric horrors. Shanna has never looked this good... or acted this bad! Collects Shanna, The She-Devil #1-7
Amazon.com Review: Renowned babe artist Frank Cho reinvented Shanna the She-Devil with this pulpy 2005 Marvel Knights miniseries. Here, Shanna is an abandoned Nazi experiment, super-powerful, super-sexy, and barely clothed. The scientists who discover Shanna and take her back to their camp also make the mistake of uncovering a deadly virus, and it's up to Shanna to escort the still-healthy to recover the cure. Problem is, hundreds of raptors and other deadly dinosaurs stand in their way. The seven-issue series ultimately doesn't amount to much, but the action and visuals are exciting and fast-moving. --David Horiuchi
Jurassic Boobs While Frank Cho's art delivers, his story does not. The plot is prosaic, the dialog weak and the characters stereotypical and one dimensional. I have never reviewed a bad book for Amazon but this one comes close.
Having said that, if I had it to do over, I'd buy this book again. Why? Because of the art. I am not immune to feminine pulchritude but there is more than that here. There are dinosaurs. Man-eating, body-chomping predators.
And of course there is Shanna.
Frank Cho is one of a handful of artists who can make the female form high art but (there's always a but) I actually got tired of having boobs in my face...and not any boobs - huge, collossal, magnificent boobs. In fact, they are so prevalent that it seemed like subliminal messaging..."We're in great danger here (boobs)...we could be killed (boobs)...you get the idea. Still, I did buy it and I am glad - but not for the boobs. Seriously.
If I was 15 again I'd probably give it 5 stars.
Great story. Great art. Combine an action-adventure story worthy of Edgar Rice Burroughs with a protagonist right out of a pin-up magazine and you have Shanna the She-Devil. It's a great re-imagining of the character. Cho's artwork is stunning!
Move over Tarzan, Shanna's got more of everything. Frank Cho's artistry is top notch. He breaks the trendy mold on how to draw the female form in action in today's comics and graphic novels. The story is far fetched but Jurassic park made money for a reason.
Beautiful art and a fun story This is a great buy for anyone who knows and enjoys Cho's art. He has stated that he loved doing this series because it was full of two of his favorite subjects- hot women and dinosaurs- and that joy shows on every page.
The story is exactly waht it means to be: fun. There are intriguing bits of character development and good dialogue throughout, but don't look for a penetrating analysis of the human condition here. This is a story about a Cho Babe slugging it out with dinos.
This hardcover edition is beatifully bound like Marvel's other Premiere HCs, and in this case the content merits the format.
Hey, it's Frank Cho! I bought this book because I like how Frank draws women (e.g, Liberty Meadows's Brandy and Jen). You can check out his artwork at http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/categories.php.
I didn't give it 5 stars because the plot isn't really original. You probably heard it all before -- an artificial construct (be it a robot, a clone, a cyborg, a computer) starts out cold and heartless but with a patient, elderly or young mentor/friend at its side becomes "human" in the end (e.g. Terminator 2, Short Circuit, Iron Giant, etc.)
I would have given it 5 stars if it were in paperback. The hardcover edition is just too pricey in my opinion. Wait for the TPB this May 2006.
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