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The artwork is gorgeous.But the plot - a team of idiots crash land in the jungle and are rescued by a female Tarzan starts off preposterous and gets sillier and sillier.And the ending is bizarre.
The storyline was a little wonky here and there and the comic never seems to take itself to seriously. I guess that's also kind of the point. No one reads a Frank Cho comic solely for the plot. All of his spectacular good girl art more than makes up for any shortcomings.
Jungle Girl Jana lebt in einem Dschungel, in dem alles ins Riesenhafte wächst: Muskeln, Brüste, Schlangen, Dinos…äh, Dinos? --- Ja, Dinos also, Würmer, Egel, Käfer und natürlich auch (der Klassiker:) Kraken.Den Gegenpol zu dieser Gigantomanie stellt Janas Garderobe dar, ein Mikrobikini mit ständing pittoresk zurseite wehendem Lendenschurz, alles zusammen komfortabel im Quadratzentimeterbereich zu messen. Und wie jede junge gutaussehende Frau zieht sich Jana gelegentlich um, auch wenn die Zeit od...
I would have liked it more if it had less rump shots. Yeah. I get it. She's curvy. But it took away from an otherwise great story.
This is the most tiresome thing I've read in a while. It manages to perfectly channel all of the really annoying part of the pulps with none of the fun. Every issue is the same: fight monster/walk around/splash page when a new monster rears its head. There is no character development, never even an inkling of danger because Jungle Girl can beat anyone, anywhere, nonsensical plotting, and the least-fun lost world I've ever encountered. The art is good, but come on! that outfit is ridiculous. Over...
The most important thing you need to know about this title is that it is pure, unadulterated pulp. It is cheesy in a throw-back sort of way and it celebrates that. I’ve been getting a lot of pulp and neo-pulp from Dynamite for some time now. For the time being, they seem to be the undisputed masters of the revival in pulp comics. Jungle Girl is an older pulp than the one that gave us Batman, The Shadow, and detective stories. Jana, the eponymous jungle girl, traces a direct line back to Tarzan,
This omnibus volume collects the first two Jungle Girl comic miniseries (or "seasons," as they're labeled in the book). I enjoyed it a great deal, but potential readers should be warned that this series pushes style over substance. The artwork is gorgeous and the characters fun, but there doesn't seem to be much of an overarching plot. The eponymous Jungle Girl Jana and her companions instead plunge from one dangerous scrape to the next, with only the flimsiest overall mission guiding their cour...
Same storyThis is an obvious money grab. The artwork and story were good, but to market the *same* exact work as that marketed under Frank Cho is reprehensible. If both men worked on it, market it as a joint work. Selling the two exact copies while only changing the byline is a cheat. I don't know if this was a decision by Dynomite, but I feel ripped off. I bought both books assuming I was getting a separate story. Do not get both books. I felt great after reading the first book. But to find out...
A couple of interesting plot points, but overall just a bit gross.
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Always awesomeI am a big fan of Jingle Girl,and this is one of my favorite books,I thank my wife for getting me this fire-book tablet.
Great big pile of enjoyable nonsense
I got this as part of a Humble Bundle, back in 2014. It's basically 250 pages of cheesecake, dinosaurs, and monsters. It's a lot of fun, if you're into that kind of thing, but it's not much more than that. I liked it. It's fairly innocent, for what it is. The Frank Cho covers are nice. The interior artwork is pretty good too, sometimes very good.
My journey through the world of comics continues...After reading Red Sonja Vol.1 & 2 and then Sonja & Tarzan I figured the next logical step would be to check out this one: Jungle Girl, whose real name is Jana, and who – unsurprisingly – is on a rampage in the thick jungle. She’s just like Tarzan, but very different. Jana’s jungle reminds me of Arthut Conan Doyle’s Lost World, or the Jurassic Park movies paired with Jules Verne’s sea monsters, and other sujets like that. There are all kinds o...
The artwork is off the hook. Frank Cho has to draw the sexist women in comics. I've also been a sucker for jungle adventures since I saw my first Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan at age 4. The story starts off really strong and love the Edgar Rice Burrough's influence but it just got a little over the top for me.
First off, this is the Cheesecake Factory of comics - every three or four pages minimum, Jungle Girl is featured in some action position in a bikini of fur or leather. It's embarrassing to read. But if you can get past the sheer prodigious amount of glorified female anatomy on display, there's actually a decent story. Not so much Volume one, which is the trope 'airplane crashes in world with extinct animals' plus a female Tarzan, with the additional 'persons in the party aren't who they seem, an...
Prendi una tarzanide che cambia bikini ogni 20 pagine (seriamente, questa ha cambi disseminati per tutta la foresta), aggiungici una troupe televisiva (il cameramen voleva girare video porno ma l'hanno reindirizzato sui documentari naturalistici). Amalgamare il tutto con un tocco di LOST e un L'Isola Misteriosa (quanto basta, giusto per insaporire). Mescolare il tutto e legare con un disegno davvero bello che fa dimenticare la trama piatta e troppo ricca di fanservice.Poteva essere meglio, ma an...
I just finished Shanna the She Devil, so this was the inevitable next step. I'm also reading Gore Vidal and Bernard Cornwell, so there. As it is, this is a bit deceptive. Frank Cho does the story, but not the artwork save the covers. The art is done by Adriano Batista and, in the last issues, by Jack Jadson. Batista is very good. I was less satisfied with Jadson. It is a very handsome art of jungles, dinosaurs, and more monsters than you can shake a stick at, as well as cavemen. It delivers ther...
Great art. Interesting story.
Got this in Dynamite Comics Humble Bundle.I kind of liked this comic. Lots of action, interesting turns of plot, and intrigue. However, also a bit of noticeable Tarzan-esque cliches and jungle adventure cliches and tons of bloody cheesecake. I'm not saying it's a BAD comic, in that it managed to be quite entertaining and not very annoying at that, but it also didn't really rise above it.