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Shanna the She-Devil #1
Writer: Frank Cho
Artist: Frank Cho
Publisher: Marvel Knights
4.00 out of 5 Stars
Reviewed by Matt Rawson
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In classic Frank Cho fashion, we have beautiful, large breasted women and dinosaurs. Throw in Nazi genetic experiments, and a team of stranded military men, and you have the new incarnation of early 1970’s jungle queen and Marvel Fanfare vixen, Shanna the She-Devil.
In this first installment of a seven issue limited series, we are treated with the always beautiful, fluid artwork of Cho, and a not-too-much-brain-food but extremely fun story. Therein a band of army fellows have been stranded in a “god-forsaken land” (the only description given as to where they are) for over three years. In that time they have encountered all the wonderfully dangerous things a “god-forsaken land” has to offer, e.g. extinct creatures and inhuman voices, but when they stumble upon an abandoned Nazi laboratory they experience the strangest thing of all: human genetic experimentation.
Within the facility they find large incubation tubes, one of which contains Shanna. They then break the glass tube and Shanna comes flushing out. Elsewhere in the complex, other members of the ill-fated team are searching for food and provisions when they come across the rotting remains of a Nazi scientist, an as-yet unnamed woman, and a very mean-tempered Raptor.
It turns out that the book we are graced with is a censored, PG, version of a book that was originally meant to be an R-rated MAX title. The main difference between the two versions is that all the conveniently (ridiculously?) placed objects to conceal Shanna’s dignity are not present leaving us a full view of our heroine’s glory.
This original version, depending on the sales of the edited one, will be released as a MAX trade after the series is finished. The thing I find amazing is that the book, in it’s cleaned up state, still has quiet a handful of gory violence. When I glanced through the original unedited pages at a recent signing, I noticed all the blood and gore was still present, but the thing that put the book “over-the-edge” was the inclusion of nude breasts. I believe this is a wonderful comment on how American censorship is utterly ludicrous.
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