3-D Pete’s Star Babe Invasion Comics Summer 2011
Maybe it’s all the review copies of adult comics I’ve been getting lately, or maybe it’s just the utter ease with which you can find a naked picture of any starlet who has ever taken off their clothes for even a split second, but I found this comic downright quaint. Sure, it’s meant to be at least mildly salacious, and shame on you if you couldn’t figure that out from the title/cover. Still, outside of some (mostly drawn) cleavage here and there, there’s just not a lot here to threaten the delicate sensibilities of those types who try to censor everything. It’s not like Mike was trying to go that way and failed; he comes across as a light-hearted guy who is just having fun with the idea and using it to get an interview with one of the ladies from a space-themed beer commercial. Sorry, the “back in my day” rant will now end. So how about the comic? There are several full page spreads of various actresses in real or imagined movies and even a full color centerfold. The comic stories include a critical but fair look back at Barbarella (including the tidbit that Raquel Welch turned down the role), determining the “Trek Babe Supreme,” figuring out who gets the last ticket to the “Space Ark,” dealing with stupid aliens, and a theory of how the next mission would go in the new “Star Trek” movie after they put Kirk in charge (just after graduating) of the most powerful ship in the fleet. Yes, that was a remarkably stupid part of the movie, but the “stupid” quotient in movies seems to be going up all the time. There’s also that interview with Rachelle Wood from the beer commercial, which ended up being more interesting than I would have guessed going in. If you’re a fan of the ladies in science fiction you have an excellent chance of liking this book a whole lot. If not there’s significantly less in here to like, but the stories are still fun and hey, maybe if you give it a try you’ll end up liking ladies of science fiction more than you do now. No price for some baffling reason, but due to all that full color stuff I’m going with $5.
