Dynamite Entertainment has provided yet another sneak peek at titles arriving in stores this week. This time it is Painkiller Jane Vol. 2 #1.
PAINKILLER JANE VOLUME 2 #1
STORY BY Joe Quesada AND JIMMY PALMIOTTI
WRITTEN BY JIMMY PALMIOTTI
ART BY Lee Moder
COVER ART BY RON ADRIAN, STJEPAN SEJIC, GEORGES JEANTY, AND AMANDA CONNER
Jane is back! The creative team of Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti and Lee Moder return for an all-new Painkiller Jane event! Picking up from the explosive events of issue #0, PKJ #1 hits the ground running as Jane faces international terrorists and the introduction of a brand new character -“The Infidel” who will change her world forever!
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Is anyone else troubled by the imagery of a nearly-naked bleeding woman staggering around like a zombie? I don’t read Painkiller Jane (mostly because of bias that she came out of the same wave of comics that birthed the “Bad Girl” craze) but I’m wondering how successful this is going to be in hooking any NEW readers.
I don’t want to dump on anybody’s fave-rave comic or anything, but this preview makes the book look pretty misogynistic and exploitive to me.
Or did I miss something important?
I’ve got something coming up later this week that fits your question and should spawn some discussion.
In answer to hooking new readers, I think the SciFi channel TV series will bring the readers to the pages (or at least that is what Dynamite and SciFi are hoping).
Stephen
Oh, and don’t worry, she’s feeling a lot better by issue #2.