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Well.
Here we are 12 days later, and I've found myself chest-deep in Lady Death comics from Chaos!.
(The exclamation point is part of the publisher name, hence a period after the exclamation.)
(Nerd.)
We get here because once I'd finished the "Onslaught" crossover, I needed a break from superheroes, and decided to read comics that I consider to have some of the sexiest covers in the collection. I'll be doing a different article on those. I'm still in the process of reading them. But Lady Death: Last Rites #2, with a cover by today's artist Carlos Mota, is on the list. But I obviously couldn't read the second issue without reading the first, and by the time I was done, I'd come to understand that despite the giant, giant boobs on display on every single female character in the publisher's wheelhouse, there were some really interesting stories being told.
I've looked at Lady Death stuff before, mainly in connection with the character's original artist, the late Steven Hughes. (Though having just gone back and re-read them, I see that I contradict myself. Which I'm happy to see. I'd hate to think I was consistent.) But when I had my comic store in the early 2000s, Chaos! was entering its heyday, and I definitely wanted popular stuff on the shelves of The Magic Mirror. It didn't help much, but at least I now have a really great comic collection. The nice thing is that I have a not-quite-but-almost complete view of what Lady Death's story was like for that year or so that I was in business. Hence today's comic, following reading Last Rites #1&2 and the Lady Death/Medieval Witchblade crossover preview.
To facilitate this, I went looking for a reading order, as Chaos! was using the new storyline = new series publishing format at this point. The most exhaustive I found opens with the same thing I've said a couple of times: despite the fact that the lead characters are virtually naked all the time, there's a really interesting plot going on.
And, I suppose, in the end, in and of themselves, there's nothing wrong with huge breasts. It'd just be really great if there wasn't such a preponderance of them in mainstream comics.
More, probably, to follow.
Further Reading and Related Posts
London Night Studios offered the grittier side of bad girl art, though I'm not as big a fan of their story.
And then there's the swimsuit issues, that take the girl out of "bad girl" and throw a swimsuit on her...leaving just "bad," really.
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