The Trouble with Girls (comics)
| The Trouble with Girls | |
|---|---|
 The cover of The Trouble with Girls trade paperback, published in 2006 by Checker Book Publishing Group. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Eternity Comics/Malibu Comics, 1987–1988, 1989–1991 Comico, 1989 Epic Comics, 1993 Devil's Due Digital, 2010 |
| Publication date | August 1987 – 1993 |
| No. of issues | 39 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Will Jacobs Gerard Jones |
| Written by | Will Jacobs Gerard Jones |
| Artist(s) | Tim Hamilton Dave Garcia Chuck Austen Bret Blevins Al Williamson |
| Collected editions | |
| The Trouble with Girls: Volume 1 | ISBN 1-933160-45-4 |
| The Trouble with Girls: Volume 2 | ISBN 1-933160-46-2 |
The Trouble with Girls is an American comic book published serially from 1987–1993 by Malibu Comics/Eternity Comics, Comico, and Epic Comics. It was written by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones, and drawn by Tim Hamilton and others.[1]
The Trouble with Girls is a satirical action series starring Lester Girls, who wants to be simply an "average guy" with a dead-end job, a plain wife, and no adventures more exciting than a good night's sleep. But Lester can't go for a drive without terrorists launching missiles at him, or walk into one of his many mansions without a beautiful, talented, curvaceous woman reposing half-dressed on his bed. Wealth, adventure, sexual magnetism, dashing good looks, and the savoir faire of a Hollywood action hero are what he calls "the curse of Girls".[2]
Hamilton's clean, linear art evokes classic superhero comics. In one 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 him crawling from the smoking wreckage of a kamikaze plane muttering only, "the bungalow".[3]
Publication history
Malibu Comics published volume one (#1–14 and Annual 1) in 1987 and 1988, the first six issues under its "Malibu Comics" imprint, and the remainder under its Eternity Comics imprint. In 1989, Comico launched volume two (#1–4), which then returned to Malibu and the "Eternity" imprint[4] for issues 5–23 and a Christmas Special. During volume two's run, Malibu also brought out related Lester Girls, Apache Dick, Lizard Lady, and Classic Girls (reprinting v1 #1–4) mini-series. In 1993, Epic Comics published a four-issue Trouble with Girls miniseries called The Trouble With Girls: Night of the Lizard, with art by Bret Blevins and Al Williamson, as well as a Lester Girls short story in its Heavy Hitters Annual.[1]
Collected editions
The first fourteen issues of The Trouble with Girls were reissued in two volumes by Checker Book Publishing Group in 2006.[3] Currently, The Trouble with Girls is available digitally exclusively through Devil's Due Digital.
Notes
- ^ a b The Trouble with Girls at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Jones, Gerard and Will Jacobs, The Comic Book Heroes, Prima Publications 1996, ISBN 0-7615-0393-5.
- ^ a b "The Trouble with Girls: Volume 1". Checker Book Publishing Group. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008.
- ^ "Three Former Comico Titles Find New Homes", The Comics Journal #129 (May 1989), pp. 13–14: about Fish Police, Trollords, and The Trouble with Girls; and The Maze Agency, which had not yet found a new publisher.
References
- The Trouble with Girls (Malibu Comics) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)