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The Blonde Volume 2: Bondage Palace
Blonde Collection: Bondage Palace reprints the second Blonde mini-series, with sharper reproduction (especially noticable in the second half, which is done in luxurious pencil tones) and a larger format. Combine multiple femme fatales, a quest for the formula for eternal youth, and The Blonde (of course!) and you've got a high-speed romp that even expertly-tied ropes can't slow down! Bonus section includes lots of previously unseen illustrations, including several covers for the Italian version!
104 pages, Paperback
First published August 16, 1995
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April 10, 2023
*First edition = May 1995*
Take all my praise of the first book and add even better art and a more complex and refined story that tightens like the restraints of all who mess with La Bionda!
Attentive and engaged readers will make their own guesses about characters and action earlier than usual because you get a "cast of characters" that identifies them AND gives certain hints and questions to think about. Only The Blonde and the megalomaniac Dr. Milly were carried over from book one into a larger, more diverse group. People like me will start asking characters why they don't realize things that we aren't always correct about but defend ourselves with our list of reasons. I got one massive surprise VERY early on and my shoulders are still a little farther back in pride because there were so many points where I was almost proven wrong.
The back cover includes a complimentary quote from Jaime Hernandez that was a massive eye-opener for me: "If you really want to learn how to draw girls, then buy The Blonde... and if you don't want to learn how to draw girls, buy it anyway." Why?
Hai-may Air-naan-deth is at the top of my list in almost every regard and HIS girls are my favorite. Sure, I believe others draw females "technically" better, but his are the most fun. I saw his girls through Saudelli's IMMEDIATELY and throughout the book's entirety!
My conclusion that Jaime, being a self-taught artist, formed his female style primarily from Franco's is objectively clear. To my eyes, the younger males and anybody he draws in caricature seem like they came out of Archie comics. I even noticed that el otro bro Heel-beer-toe got at least a soupcon of Saudelli because of one character's similarities.
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NOTHING to do with the book:
If you're well acquainted with the adult-voiced MJ I want you to revisit the album version of "Dirty Diana"- NOT remastered.
Obviously, the masterpieces everyone knows (or should) are above comparison with all but the best song of anyone like him while "Diana" struts alone one step above because it brilliantly transcends his golden "formula" that, although shockingly pliable, had its intrinsic limitations.
Take all my praise of the first book and add even better art and a more complex and refined story that tightens like the restraints of all who mess with La Bionda!
Attentive and engaged readers will make their own guesses about characters and action earlier than usual because you get a "cast of characters" that identifies them AND gives certain hints and questions to think about. Only The Blonde and the megalomaniac Dr. Milly were carried over from book one into a larger, more diverse group. People like me will start asking characters why they don't realize things that we aren't always correct about but defend ourselves with our list of reasons. I got one massive surprise VERY early on and my shoulders are still a little farther back in pride because there were so many points where I was almost proven wrong.
The back cover includes a complimentary quote from Jaime Hernandez that was a massive eye-opener for me: "If you really want to learn how to draw girls, then buy The Blonde... and if you don't want to learn how to draw girls, buy it anyway." Why?
Hai-may Air-naan-deth is at the top of my list in almost every regard and HIS girls are my favorite. Sure, I believe others draw females "technically" better, but his are the most fun. I saw his girls through Saudelli's IMMEDIATELY and throughout the book's entirety!
My conclusion that Jaime, being a self-taught artist, formed his female style primarily from Franco's is objectively clear. To my eyes, the younger males and anybody he draws in caricature seem like they came out of Archie comics. I even noticed that el otro bro Heel-beer-toe got at least a soupcon of Saudelli because of one character's similarities.
____________________________
NOTHING to do with the book:
If you're well acquainted with the adult-voiced MJ I want you to revisit the album version of "Dirty Diana"- NOT remastered.
Obviously, the masterpieces everyone knows (or should) are above comparison with all but the best song of anyone like him while "Diana" struts alone one step above because it brilliantly transcends his golden "formula" that, although shockingly pliable, had its intrinsic limitations.
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July 31, 2011
Italian artist Franco Saudelli renders a tale of the search for eternal youth. His oft-distressed heroine, the Blonde, is hired to track down the formula - but finds herself in the middle of a massive conspiracy of bounty hunters, double-crosses, and ropes!
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