I bought this mini-series new, mostly out of interest in Peter David at the time, plus Future Imperfect afterglow. I suspect #1 had high pre-orders for its class, as you can find those all over. I have a couple of silver foil variants that I pulled out of dollar bins. The other issues are much tougher to come by, with George Perez doing to the deadlines what got done to the porn actress at the top of the book. I remembered this title running very late, and Mike's verifies release dates of September 7th, March 8th, April 26th, & July 5th. Marvel were clearly stuck with fees/resolicitions and held the rest of the issues until the book was closer to completion (but note the further schedule slippage.) Since it launched late in 1993, that first issue was probably eaten by shops already drowning in overstock during the market crash, so the rest of the non-enhanced issues were probably pre-orders only/low shelf stock. ComiChron has sales data on #3 (168th in unit sales) & 4 (165th, both in the 140s for dollar share.) It makes sense that the trade has gone to press a couple time at as many publishers, based on the talent involved, but I think the material is kinda limp-dick. It's Perez inking himself, so obviously he put in the work, but it feels wasted on the material. I wasn't aware of Perez's more "sex positive" interests at the time, so it just felt weird and gross for him to be doing a book that was like a glossy Playboy prototype of 8mm... and it still does. Mark Beachum did some design work on an earlier '80s incarnation of the book, and even though David told me that he was never seriously intended to be the artist, he would obviously have better suited grimy, gory sexploitation. There's a frog in slowly boiling water quality to the project, where the creators get more bold as they go along (so much gratuitous nudity in #3) which is coupled with declining art quality (especially Art Nichols in #4.) Perez is curiously bad at drawing J.J.'s nipples, and Ernie Violens feels like a squicky creator insert (allowing for said creator to vicariously insert themselves into J.J.) By the second "arc," the impropriety of '70s "street" comic book villains in a kiddie porn ring was too vile to be entirely forgiven. This was beneath everyone involved, and the market was never going to support more of it. I'm surprised by how long their presence lingered in Fallen Angel. That book was less a Supergirl continuation as it was a spinning off of the darker elements in Linda Danvers' sphere, as evidenced by a Matrix stand-in eventually showing in Fallen Angel to underscore the differences. As a fan of the Black Emanuelle expanded film universe, I could have seen Perez pulling off something more along those lines, but PAD's punditry would be far better suited to cheesecake than smut. It ends up being a tuna fish wedding cake. Finally, Devin DeVasquez is obviously the J.J. Sachs casting choice to beat. C'mon, Derek! She was right there the whole time.
I bought this mini-series new, mostly out of interest in Peter David at the time, plus Future Imperfect afterglow. I suspect #1 had high pre-orders for its class, as you can find those all over. I have a couple of silver foil variants that I pulled out of dollar bins. The other issues are much tougher to come by, with George Perez doing to the deadlines what got done to the porn actress at the top of the book. I remembered this title running very late, and Mike's verifies release dates of September 7th, March 8th, April 26th, & July 5th. Marvel were clearly stuck with fees/resolicitions and held the rest of the issues until the book was closer to completion (but note the further schedule slippage.) Since it launched late in 1993, that first issue was probably eaten by shops already drowning in overstock during the market crash, so the rest of the non-enhanced issues were probably pre-orders only/low shelf stock. ComiChron has sales data on #3 (168th in unit sales) & 4 (165th, both in the 140s for dollar share.) It makes sense that the trade has gone to press a couple time at as many publishers, based on the talent involved, but I think the material is kinda limp-dick. It's Perez inking himself, so obviously he put in the work, but it feels wasted on the material. I wasn't aware of Perez's more "sex positive" interests at the time, so it just felt weird and gross for him to be doing a book that was like a glossy Playboy prototype of 8mm... and it still does. Mark Beachum did some design work on an earlier '80s incarnation of the book, and even though David told me that he was never seriously intended to be the artist, he would obviously have better suited grimy, gory sexploitation. There's a frog in slowly boiling water quality to the project, where the creators get more bold as they go along (so much gratuitous nudity in #3) which is coupled with declining art quality (especially Art Nichols in #4.) Perez is curiously bad at drawing J.J.'s nipples, and Ernie Violens feels like a squicky creator insert (allowing for said creator to vicariously insert themselves into J.J.) By the second "arc," the impropriety of '70s "street" comic book villains in a kiddie porn ring was too vile to be entirely forgiven. This was beneath everyone involved, and the market was never going to support more of it. I'm surprised by how long their presence lingered in Fallen Angel. That book was less a Supergirl continuation as it was a spinning off of the darker elements in Linda Danvers' sphere, as evidenced by a Matrix stand-in eventually showing in Fallen Angel to underscore the differences. As a fan of the Black Emanuelle expanded film universe, I could have seen Perez pulling off something more along those lines, but PAD's punditry would be far better suited to cheesecake than smut. It ends up being a tuna fish wedding cake. Finally, Devin DeVasquez is obviously the J.J. Sachs casting choice to beat. C'mon, Derek! She was right there the whole time.
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