Jenna Jameson and Comics: Just musing on the cover
In short, the first cover?
1. Smaller than the average Power Girl
2. More clothing coverage than Lady Death / Red Sonja
3. From Forbes.com’s coverage of the series ” The story, while provocative and sexy, contains no nudity and is intended for a mainstream audience” - which means DC and Marvel could learn something here. Mainstream? With no nudity? Surely this can’t be a comic book.
I’m torn. Seriously, and genuinely torn. I mean, I don’t want to typecast and do the “Oh, a porn star, therefore the comic has to be about the sex and nudity and the standards”. Yet, if there was ever a comics book developer, writer and franchise holder who could make an out and out sex comic (4 colour porn on paper), Jenna Jameson would be that person. A full industry load of contacts, a production house, match experience and a Greg Land field day where porn tracing would be a feature, not a bug.
Yet, at the same time, I want to highlight the fact that Virgin comics takes pains to explain this isn’t a comic with nudity.
Sure, the odds of it being a comic that’s, well, a comic with the usual level of gratuity that’s been pushed in the four colour book market are pretty good. But what interests me is the prospect of a comic produced by Virgin Comics, written by Jenna Jameson, and produced with less gratuitous female flesh per page than mainstream DC / Marvel.
That would be most interesting indeed.
Honestly, what I love is how in their press release they twice call it “provocative.” I was boggling at this with a friend who said, “Man, I remember when provocative meant the white chick had a Black boyfriend.”
I’m pretty sure that by provocative they mean “tawdry.”
Comment by Betty — July 29, 2007 @ 6:51 am
By provocative, I think they mean “Should get free publicity” as opposed to “Won’t be as degrading as Heroes for Hentai”
Whatever happens, it has a lot to do to be worse than Batman All BrainTumor
Comment by Stephen Dann — July 29, 2007 @ 9:04 am
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Pingback by Blog@Newsarama » Variations on a Theme — August 5, 2007 @ 7:31 am
On the cover! Her eyes! She is actually looking at the viewer! She’s not looking down or away! Like she might have, y’know, agency. Mm, sexy sexy agency.
Comment by Effie Nell — August 19, 2007 @ 10:35 am