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Danger Girl #2
Danger Girl: Odd Jobs
Grab your passport and join us on an enthralling expedition into the high-stakes world of international action and intrigue. From fan-favourite writer and artist J. Scott Campbell (Gen 13) comes even more of everyone's favourite femme fatales! Rejoin Abbey Chase, Natalia Kassle, 'Silicon' Valerie and Sydney Savage in a new set of never-before-collected short stories and adventures, as the red-hot Danger Girl team battle evil and laugh in the face of danger the world over! Also featuring unpublished sketches and artwork, this book is a must for every Danger Girl fan - and a great way for the uninitiated to get into the offbeat, action-packed and exhilarating world of Abbey Chase...Danger Girl!
136 pages, Paperback
First published December 27, 2002
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February 1, 2017
I loved the original Danger Girl graphic novel and have read it many times through the years. I knew that they made more stuff later on, but I just never got around to picking any of the other books up until now. I was at my local comic shop and happened upon this book on a 50% off rack and decided to grab it to see what it was like.
As thin as the book is, I was surprised to find out that it was divided into 4 different stories each with their own art style. The first of these is written by J. Scott Campbell, a co-creator of the series, Andy Hartnell, the other co-creator, and artist Joe Chiodo. This is an extremely short tale set as a 1960's TV show that is a blend of the Adam West Batman series, Charlie's Angels, and a little Austin Powers to round things out. Chiodo has his own unique style of art that makes all of the characters he draws look like caricaturized versions of dolls. The drawings themselves are usually tongue-in-cheek and fit perfectly with the tone of this story. The series as a whole never took itself seriously, but always tried to be fun. This story succeeds in that regard. I give this story 3 stars after averaging the 4 star art and 2 star story.
The 2nd part of the book focuses on Silicon Valerie and is written Campbell, Hartnell, and the artist for the story, Arthur Adams. This story has Val daydreaming about trading places with each of the other members of the Danger Girl team and their leader Deuce. The illustrations by Art Adams look extremely close to the art in the original series by J. Scott Campbell. Each character was easily recognizable and the story had the best art in the book. Along with having the best art, I thought this was an awesome, yet super-short, tale. This one gets 4.5 stars for 4 star writing and 5 star art.
Campbell and Hartnell co-plotted the 3rd story, but Hartnell scripted it alone. Phil Noto is the artist for this one. If it weren't for the story being in a Danger Girl book and the characters calling each other by name, I wouldn't know that these were Danger Girl characters by looking at them. The style of art used makes them all unrecognizable. The pictures are pretty much the exact opposite of what Campbell drew for the original series and Adams drew in the preceding story. It has very little detail to it and would be more appropriate to an episode of Sealab 2021 or some graphic novel adaptation of a YA book aimed at female readers. This art is extremely out of place in this book and doesn't really fit the Danger Girl series at all. The story itself and the art are both my 3rd favorite in the book. This one gets 3 stars overall for a 3 star story and 3 star art.
The final story in the book has the exact same creative staff as the 3rd with everyone handling the same roles. Noto somehow manages to make the art look even worse in this one. Abbey Chase is the only one of the females that looks the same from the previous story. Everyone else is drawn in a different style. We get to see Abbey in her original white belly shirt and green pants and Syd in her black leather catsuit. Those 2 are more recognizable because of that, but they somehow look their worst. This one had my 2nd favorite writing, but the worst art in the book. This one gets a 3.25 star rating for 4 star writing and 2.5 star art.
after averaging all 4 stories together, I came up with a 3.125 rating that I rounded down to 3 stars. This book was fun, but not nearly as good as the original. I'll hang on to this because it'll be worth another read down the road, but it'll never get as much use as the original graphic will.
As thin as the book is, I was surprised to find out that it was divided into 4 different stories each with their own art style. The first of these is written by J. Scott Campbell, a co-creator of the series, Andy Hartnell, the other co-creator, and artist Joe Chiodo. This is an extremely short tale set as a 1960's TV show that is a blend of the Adam West Batman series, Charlie's Angels, and a little Austin Powers to round things out. Chiodo has his own unique style of art that makes all of the characters he draws look like caricaturized versions of dolls. The drawings themselves are usually tongue-in-cheek and fit perfectly with the tone of this story. The series as a whole never took itself seriously, but always tried to be fun. This story succeeds in that regard. I give this story 3 stars after averaging the 4 star art and 2 star story.
The 2nd part of the book focuses on Silicon Valerie and is written Campbell, Hartnell, and the artist for the story, Arthur Adams. This story has Val daydreaming about trading places with each of the other members of the Danger Girl team and their leader Deuce. The illustrations by Art Adams look extremely close to the art in the original series by J. Scott Campbell. Each character was easily recognizable and the story had the best art in the book. Along with having the best art, I thought this was an awesome, yet super-short, tale. This one gets 4.5 stars for 4 star writing and 5 star art.
Campbell and Hartnell co-plotted the 3rd story, but Hartnell scripted it alone. Phil Noto is the artist for this one. If it weren't for the story being in a Danger Girl book and the characters calling each other by name, I wouldn't know that these were Danger Girl characters by looking at them. The style of art used makes them all unrecognizable. The pictures are pretty much the exact opposite of what Campbell drew for the original series and Adams drew in the preceding story. It has very little detail to it and would be more appropriate to an episode of Sealab 2021 or some graphic novel adaptation of a YA book aimed at female readers. This art is extremely out of place in this book and doesn't really fit the Danger Girl series at all. The story itself and the art are both my 3rd favorite in the book. This one gets 3 stars overall for a 3 star story and 3 star art.
The final story in the book has the exact same creative staff as the 3rd with everyone handling the same roles. Noto somehow manages to make the art look even worse in this one. Abbey Chase is the only one of the females that looks the same from the previous story. Everyone else is drawn in a different style. We get to see Abbey in her original white belly shirt and green pants and Syd in her black leather catsuit. Those 2 are more recognizable because of that, but they somehow look their worst. This one had my 2nd favorite writing, but the worst art in the book. This one gets a 3.25 star rating for 4 star writing and 2.5 star art.
after averaging all 4 stories together, I came up with a 3.125 rating that I rounded down to 3 stars. This book was fun, but not nearly as good as the original. I'll hang on to this because it'll be worth another read down the road, but it'll never get as much use as the original graphic will.
September 20, 2013
It kinda lost some of the magic of the original series, maybe because it was handed to other people. Then again, the original series was rushed off so unsurprising there that Campbell probably got tired of the original and just handed it around.
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