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Ethan Daniels is a typical bachelor who suffers from one, infallible truth: dealing with the opposite sex can be complicated. One night, he bumps into a mysterious woman who will change his life and maybe even the world.
This edition collects the complete run of Girls as a large-format hardcover in a slipcase, and includes all original covers, including variant covers of extra printings. Collects Girls #1–24.
This edition collects the complete run of Girls as a large-format hardcover in a slipcase, and includes all original covers, including variant covers of extra printings. Collects Girls #1–24.
624 pages, Hardcover
First published December 20, 2001
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May 17, 2018
This was great. A weird premise, but it gave a Walking Dead vibe. The writers made me care for most of the characters with their backstories and complicated relationships with each other. I can see that it has not got a lot of favorable reviews here, but it was a real page-turner for me with all the cliffhangers.
October 9, 2019
Lite spoilers probably
Girls is the battle of the sexes at its peak. The men and women are exaggerations of the worst stereotypes for each gender. The women are whores, dependent and meek, or nagging shrews while the men are completely incapable of controlling their horniness. The story that follows is what happens when an outside element comes in to attack the women and breed with the men. Despite the obvious danger of the girls the men can't keep it in their pants and continue to expand the problem. The women decide that therefore all men cannot be trusted. Individual characters fight for autonomy from their overbearing spouses. Every character wrestles with their inner demons as well as their preconceived notions of each other. The stand up #notallmen cop tries to maintain order but it's not until the men are directly affected by the violence from the girls that everyone is able to work together to free their town. Women are being killed left and right but it's not until a man is murdered that they are able to honestly attack the problem head on.
The commentary on gender conflict found in Girls is especially poignant here in 2019. We see everyone in Girls at their absolute worst, unable to work together to fight what is obviously the common enemy. Unable to feel empathy for what one side is going through until it hits too close to home. Sometimes you have to fight what feels good for yourself in the moment to help your fellow person.
Girls is the battle of the sexes at its peak. The men and women are exaggerations of the worst stereotypes for each gender. The women are whores, dependent and meek, or nagging shrews while the men are completely incapable of controlling their horniness. The story that follows is what happens when an outside element comes in to attack the women and breed with the men. Despite the obvious danger of the girls the men can't keep it in their pants and continue to expand the problem. The women decide that therefore all men cannot be trusted. Individual characters fight for autonomy from their overbearing spouses. Every character wrestles with their inner demons as well as their preconceived notions of each other. The stand up #notallmen cop tries to maintain order but it's not until the men are directly affected by the violence from the girls that everyone is able to work together to free their town. Women are being killed left and right but it's not until a man is murdered that they are able to honestly attack the problem head on.
The commentary on gender conflict found in Girls is especially poignant here in 2019. We see everyone in Girls at their absolute worst, unable to work together to fight what is obviously the common enemy. Unable to feel empathy for what one side is going through until it hits too close to home. Sometimes you have to fight what feels good for yourself in the moment to help your fellow person.
May 28, 2024
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Wow, this was really bad.
Ok, so, imagine the Walking Dead but the zombies are hot chicks with big boobs. Ok, now imagine those chicks want to bang every dude they see and absolutely butcher every female they see. And, like, everyone is stupid and horny all the time. And there are sexual innuendos everywhere.
I just saved you 600 pages worth of your time.
I really liked Johnathan's Alex + Ada and Eternal Empire series, but I guess this is sign I should just read books where he's just the illustrator.
November 30, 2013
HAHA wow did I hate this. Terrible.
July 6, 2024
Nothing ever happens in Pennystown. Until it does and the clones (?) of a naked woman swarm the city and try to tear any living woman to pieces.
And it all starts with Ethan, a disillusioned young man whose day went from bad to worse. Too much booze and failing in life will do that to you. When he meets a mysterious (and naked) woman, he tries to help. His help initiates a doomsday scenario.
The visual storytelling is on point, and it kept my eyes glued to the page. The story moves at a breakneck pace and it fits the sudden apocalypse narrative. I also think brothers Luna handled the themes of the story (fear/survival in the face of the unknown, repressed anger, family drams) well.
With that said, some characters make decisions that add to the drama but are extremely stupid. The fast pace keeps things exciting, but it sometimes sacrifices character development for the sake of cheaper thrills and explicit content.
Despite this, I binged the series in one day and found it both gripping and maddening. If you’re up for a story that toes the line between horror, sci-fi, and social experiment, and don’t mind yelling at fictional characters, then Girls might be a story for you.
And it all starts with Ethan, a disillusioned young man whose day went from bad to worse. Too much booze and failing in life will do that to you. When he meets a mysterious (and naked) woman, he tries to help. His help initiates a doomsday scenario.
The visual storytelling is on point, and it kept my eyes glued to the page. The story moves at a breakneck pace and it fits the sudden apocalypse narrative. I also think brothers Luna handled the themes of the story (fear/survival in the face of the unknown, repressed anger, family drams) well.
With that said, some characters make decisions that add to the drama but are extremely stupid. The fast pace keeps things exciting, but it sometimes sacrifices character development for the sake of cheaper thrills and explicit content.
Despite this, I binged the series in one day and found it both gripping and maddening. If you’re up for a story that toes the line between horror, sci-fi, and social experiment, and don’t mind yelling at fictional characters, then Girls might be a story for you.
July 28, 2014
Reading this book was like reading the scripts I wrote my first year of college: solid concept, smart/entertaining at times, but overall bad.
After reading the quotes from the front cover lauding the series, I can only surmise that they were written after finishing issue 5 and not reading past that. With the big reveal at the end of issue 5, I can see how people who had only read to that point might be compelled to forgive the terrible characters -- it's exposition, after all -- and be along for the ride. But when you start throwing in all the B.S. plotlines people shoehorn into survival horror, you can't help but groan at every turn.
Also, I probably would have given this book three stars instead of two if the art was better. You primarily tell characters apart by their hairstyle.
After reading the quotes from the front cover lauding the series, I can only surmise that they were written after finishing issue 5 and not reading past that. With the big reveal at the end of issue 5, I can see how people who had only read to that point might be compelled to forgive the terrible characters -- it's exposition, after all -- and be along for the ride. But when you start throwing in all the B.S. plotlines people shoehorn into survival horror, you can't help but groan at every turn.
Also, I probably would have given this book three stars instead of two if the art was better. You primarily tell characters apart by their hairstyle.
August 25, 2018
Girls starts with a bizarre, but interesting premise -- a weird tribe of beautiful (nude) (probably alien) clone-"girls" takes over a small town, killing the human women and seducing the human men in order to get impregnated and make more clone-"girls". The girls' behavior has additional layers of weird alien purpose, but the interesting stuff is baked into how the town reacts to this basic concept -- the ways that the men and women turn on one another in order to deal with the invasion.
Both the script and the visuals are, generally, pretty weak -- it's paced like a horror movie, which is nice, but on a panel-for-panel basis the drawings are flat and totally over-photoshopped, and the dialogue is incredibly wooden. It's difficult to tell when the Luna brothers are trying to create one-dimensional caricatures of loathsome people in order to demonstrate who the villains are, and when they're inarticulately attempting to express their own ideas about gender dynamics. In interviews from the time when the comic series was originally being published, the brothers argued that they were attempting to represent both genders equally, and I'm relatively sure that this is true. But at the end of the day this is still a book created by two dudes in their mid-twenties, and it shows.
To wit: the protagonist is a young guy who's the town outcast because he just got dumped and no one understands how horny he is. While other characters flutter in and out of having brief periods of narrative agency, he's the only one who keeps his head on straight throughout the story. The other characters, men and women alike, usually meet their demise because they are A) too horny or B) not horny enough. I guess you could say there's something sort of interesting here about the value of being at peace with one's own sex drive, but that's a pretty big stretch. Mostly, the horny/not-horny binary ensures that the rest of the cast is either depicted as a bunch of lecherous fuck-trolls, or frigid (or gay, which seems to be a third category because blech).
I think the most compelling thing about the book is waiting for the other thematic shoe to drop -- like when you read an undergraduate short story about race just waiting to see when the student uses the 'n' word. For all the Luna Bros. talk on gender equality, the whole "monsters only kill women" concept is basically a convenient way for a bunch of lame-ass dudes to learn how to be "real men" by saving the ladies over and over from beginning to end, while the one woman who does some saving herself is depicted as a horrible psychotic shrew. That SOME of the men are revealed as scumbags doesn't really balance out the basic fact that ALL the women have to learn to let themselves be taken care of in order to survive.
Plus this is a 700-page book that is essentially an excuse to write and draw a lot of fucking, and we never see a single dick.
None of this is to say that 25 year olds are incapable of telling good stories -- just that these 25 year olds weren't capable of telling this one.
Both the script and the visuals are, generally, pretty weak -- it's paced like a horror movie, which is nice, but on a panel-for-panel basis the drawings are flat and totally over-photoshopped, and the dialogue is incredibly wooden. It's difficult to tell when the Luna brothers are trying to create one-dimensional caricatures of loathsome people in order to demonstrate who the villains are, and when they're inarticulately attempting to express their own ideas about gender dynamics. In interviews from the time when the comic series was originally being published, the brothers argued that they were attempting to represent both genders equally, and I'm relatively sure that this is true. But at the end of the day this is still a book created by two dudes in their mid-twenties, and it shows.
To wit: the protagonist is a young guy who's the town outcast because he just got dumped and no one understands how horny he is. While other characters flutter in and out of having brief periods of narrative agency, he's the only one who keeps his head on straight throughout the story. The other characters, men and women alike, usually meet their demise because they are A) too horny or B) not horny enough. I guess you could say there's something sort of interesting here about the value of being at peace with one's own sex drive, but that's a pretty big stretch. Mostly, the horny/not-horny binary ensures that the rest of the cast is either depicted as a bunch of lecherous fuck-trolls, or frigid (or gay, which seems to be a third category because blech).
I think the most compelling thing about the book is waiting for the other thematic shoe to drop -- like when you read an undergraduate short story about race just waiting to see when the student uses the 'n' word. For all the Luna Bros. talk on gender equality, the whole "monsters only kill women" concept is basically a convenient way for a bunch of lame-ass dudes to learn how to be "real men" by saving the ladies over and over from beginning to end, while the one woman who does some saving herself is depicted as a horrible psychotic shrew. That SOME of the men are revealed as scumbags doesn't really balance out the basic fact that ALL the women have to learn to let themselves be taken care of in order to survive.
Plus this is a 700-page book that is essentially an excuse to write and draw a lot of fucking, and we never see a single dick.
None of this is to say that 25 year olds are incapable of telling good stories -- just that these 25 year olds weren't capable of telling this one.
October 28, 2019
DUE TO THE EXPLICIT AND AT TIMES POLITICAL NATURE OF THIS BOOK THE FOLLOWING REVIEW IS EVEN MORE NSFW THAN USUAL. IT CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND DARK HUMOR ALONG WITH DISCUSSION ON VIOLENCE, SEX AND POLITICS. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE DON’T READ THIS BOOK OR MY REVIEW OF IT.
What’s it about?
Killer, horny alien girls that lay eggs are trying to invade a town and kill a bunch of people while creating a bunch of clones of themselves.
Pros:
The story. It’s definitely creative, I’ll give it that. It also has a bit of a survival thing going.
This book is very unpredictable.
While I don’t think it’s necessarily intentional, this book can be humorous.
Cons:
Fuck these characters. Gosh, I was actually hoping the alien girls would kill these stupid motherfuckers. Hell, if I was stuck with these cunts I’d probably help the alien girls, not because I’d fall for their beauty and charm but because I wouldn’t be able to stand being with these fuckheads for 2 minutes. Hell, I sorta wanted to go into the comic and do it myself (it’s not like it’s murder since they’re just fictional characters after all). They’re all just stupid and/or awful, usually both. I can’t emphasize it enough: fuck them with a fucking anchor, they’re all cunts so fuck them all (for those of you who get that joke, y’all know good music).
This book is so fucking boring! It takes goddamn forever for anything exciting to happen.
This book’s dialogue. Gosh, this comic couldn’t go a single issue without a line that made me cringe at how terribly written it was (I say at least, usually much more).
So I’m no SJW type or anything but motherfucker, this book seems sexist towards women. So minor spoilers, this book’s plot is about beautiful girls that fuck everything up and make more girls that are exactly the same and fuck shit up more, the possible implications there are definitely twisted. Then the human girls are drawn to look ugly or mediocre at best, they complain a bunch, they are dumber than boxes of rocks, they act hostile, they fuck up at anything they try to do unless it’s something that a man tells them to do, they act like a bunch of sheep following their awful leader and when independent they act like man hating psychopaths. Seriously I often criticize modern feminism for being sexist towards men and in this book’s defense the men are fucking dumb too but at least they’re just fucking dumb. The way women are portrayed in this was like what I’d expect if an “incel” as they’re often called wrote a weird anti-women version of The Walking Dead.
This comic tries too hard to be edgy. Especially the constant nudity. Seriously, it felt less like artistic nudity and/or sex in context of a story but more like they knew a pair of boobs would sell more comics than the shit characters so it was just there.
These characters make constant shitty decisions. Whether it’s letting the entire town of people stay at your house, giving one person all the fucking guns that the police station had, kicking a bear in the nuts (okay that one at least made me laugh), continuing to fuck weird murderous alien girls, not shooting the psychotic cunt that is encouraging women to lock up and mutilate every male and more! Though I wanna emphasize that last bit, there’s a lot of characters that were nothing but trouble in a survival scenario and they just made survival harder for everybody in their town, they even had several opportunities to kill them but were all “oh no we can’t do that because that wouldn’t be nice, don’t mind that they’re making the life threatening situation even harder for everyone and we’re more likely to die and run out of supplies by keeping this useless motherfucker here”. Oh my gosh...
This book while mostly easy to understand, it could have been more clear.
There’s a lot of sad shit that’s just there. Most notably a graphic image of a murdered puppy that had nothing to do with the plot.
The ending is anti-climactic and overwhelmingly meh. It doesn’t feel like a satisfying conclusion but more like “well, that was an annoying series of stuff”. Though I will give the ending this, I was glad the book was over.
Mixed thoughts:
The art. Some panels look good, some panels look bad, most panels look meh.
Overall:
While there are a few things I liked about this comic most of it is terrible. For every thing I liked about it there were 3 things I didn’t like about it. This book is just so stupid.
A suspenseful plot doesn’t come close to making up for the giant ass truckload of stupid shit in this book.
Not recommended at all, this book is awful.
2/5
What’s it about?
Killer, horny alien girls that lay eggs are trying to invade a town and kill a bunch of people while creating a bunch of clones of themselves.
Pros:
The story. It’s definitely creative, I’ll give it that. It also has a bit of a survival thing going.
This book is very unpredictable.
While I don’t think it’s necessarily intentional, this book can be humorous.
Cons:
Fuck these characters. Gosh, I was actually hoping the alien girls would kill these stupid motherfuckers. Hell, if I was stuck with these cunts I’d probably help the alien girls, not because I’d fall for their beauty and charm but because I wouldn’t be able to stand being with these fuckheads for 2 minutes. Hell, I sorta wanted to go into the comic and do it myself (it’s not like it’s murder since they’re just fictional characters after all). They’re all just stupid and/or awful, usually both. I can’t emphasize it enough: fuck them with a fucking anchor, they’re all cunts so fuck them all (for those of you who get that joke, y’all know good music).
This book is so fucking boring! It takes goddamn forever for anything exciting to happen.
This book’s dialogue. Gosh, this comic couldn’t go a single issue without a line that made me cringe at how terribly written it was (I say at least, usually much more).
So I’m no SJW type or anything but motherfucker, this book seems sexist towards women. So minor spoilers, this book’s plot is about beautiful girls that fuck everything up and make more girls that are exactly the same and fuck shit up more, the possible implications there are definitely twisted. Then the human girls are drawn to look ugly or mediocre at best, they complain a bunch, they are dumber than boxes of rocks, they act hostile, they fuck up at anything they try to do unless it’s something that a man tells them to do, they act like a bunch of sheep following their awful leader and when independent they act like man hating psychopaths. Seriously I often criticize modern feminism for being sexist towards men and in this book’s defense the men are fucking dumb too but at least they’re just fucking dumb. The way women are portrayed in this was like what I’d expect if an “incel” as they’re often called wrote a weird anti-women version of The Walking Dead.
This comic tries too hard to be edgy. Especially the constant nudity. Seriously, it felt less like artistic nudity and/or sex in context of a story but more like they knew a pair of boobs would sell more comics than the shit characters so it was just there.
These characters make constant shitty decisions. Whether it’s letting the entire town of people stay at your house, giving one person all the fucking guns that the police station had, kicking a bear in the nuts (okay that one at least made me laugh), continuing to fuck weird murderous alien girls, not shooting the psychotic cunt that is encouraging women to lock up and mutilate every male and more! Though I wanna emphasize that last bit, there’s a lot of characters that were nothing but trouble in a survival scenario and they just made survival harder for everybody in their town, they even had several opportunities to kill them but were all “oh no we can’t do that because that wouldn’t be nice, don’t mind that they’re making the life threatening situation even harder for everyone and we’re more likely to die and run out of supplies by keeping this useless motherfucker here”. Oh my gosh...
This book while mostly easy to understand, it could have been more clear.
There’s a lot of sad shit that’s just there. Most notably a graphic image of a murdered puppy that had nothing to do with the plot.
The ending is anti-climactic and overwhelmingly meh. It doesn’t feel like a satisfying conclusion but more like “well, that was an annoying series of stuff”. Though I will give the ending this, I was glad the book was over.
Mixed thoughts:
The art. Some panels look good, some panels look bad, most panels look meh.
Overall:
While there are a few things I liked about this comic most of it is terrible. For every thing I liked about it there were 3 things I didn’t like about it. This book is just so stupid.
A suspenseful plot doesn’t come close to making up for the giant ass truckload of stupid shit in this book.
Not recommended at all, this book is awful.
2/5
November 4, 2016
So what is Girls about ?
It's a story about a small town that is suddenly enclosed by a dome (rings any bells?). The townsfolk are confronted with a rather peculiar problem: Naked and ridiculously hot girls that came from nowhere are having sex with random males and are attacking, killing and eating the females of the town.
As the storyline develops, we learn that the "girls" (who do not seem to be civilized/intelligent) multiply (by laying eggs, mind you) by having sex with the 'human men', which creates a paranoid atmosphere amongst the characters. The girls carry on multiplying and killing the women while the characters try to survive the crisis. Oh, and there's a "Sperm Monster" that is "growing" in the woods.
Yes, Girls is very, very gimmicky. But here's one thing about me: I always finish the books I start reading, no matter what. (Sigh)
First of all, 95% of the characters were jerks with zero redeeming qualities. Even the bad guys were poorly portrayed - take Nancy, the ruthless wife/mother and 'leader' of the women. She is not the type of "villain" one loves to hate - quite the contrary. She was completely irrational and had no charisma.
Ethan, who is presented as the main protagonist, is the character who had sex with the first freakishly hot naked girl, which makes him responsible for the whole mess... But Ethan has a good explanation:
Ethan was too whiny to be taken seriously. The other characters were bland, insipid and uninspired... so much clichés.
As far as manga-esque plots are concerned, Girls is not that original. The mystery unfolds, we get one or two WTF's scenes and then the plot drags and drags until the characters remember that, in order to solve the problem, they have to kill the sperm monster. As it happens, one of them, Merv, has some dynamite! They end up killing all the girls + the sperm monster, which makes the dome disappear. 6 issues would have sufficed to tell that story.
The only reason I am not giving 1* to Girls is that the artwork by Jonathan Luna is very appealing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 8, 2018
Wow this was horrible.
2 Stars for an interesting concept with an Under the Dome feel. I like weird, this is very weird. On top of that though, just horrible characters, sexist in a weird way, and uncomfortable to read. Most of the dialogue in this run was people just fighting the whole time. I feel like there was an opening here for at least some substance. I began skim reading because there was really no point in most of the dialogue until the end of each issue when finally something happened plot wise.
2 Stars for an interesting concept with an Under the Dome feel. I like weird, this is very weird. On top of that though, just horrible characters, sexist in a weird way, and uncomfortable to read. Most of the dialogue in this run was people just fighting the whole time. I feel like there was an opening here for at least some substance. I began skim reading because there was really no point in most of the dialogue until the end of each issue when finally something happened plot wise.
July 30, 2012
I did not grow up reading comic books or graphic novels. Although I love cartoons and superhero stories, it wasn't a format I ever really explored that much until recently. Last year when DC Comics started its new 52 campaign, I decided to give comics a try. I heard about Girls while listening to Aisha Tyler's Girl on Guy podcast (one of my favorite podcasts) where she interviewed Joshua and Jonathan Luna, the guys behind the story and art of Girls. I was intrigued enough to give graphic novels a try.
I'm not quite sure what to think about Girls. It is beautifully drawn and the story is interesting and compelling. Once I started it I could hardly put it down. It is a science-fiction story involving alien women who invade a small town. They attack the human woman and seduce the men, and after said seduction lay eggs (yes eggs) that within a matter of hours yield more alien women clones. The townspeople are trapped. They work together, turn on each other, attack each each, save each other, and so on.
I felt like the Luna Brothers were making a statement about women, men, relationships, authority, mob behavior, but I'm not exactly sure what that statement is. The story begins and ends with a set of panels about the cycle of life, its beauty and ugliness and here some of the beauty and a lot of the ugliness is on full display, but what it all means in the end I couldn't tell you.
I'm not quite sure what to think about Girls. It is beautifully drawn and the story is interesting and compelling. Once I started it I could hardly put it down. It is a science-fiction story involving alien women who invade a small town. They attack the human woman and seduce the men, and after said seduction lay eggs (yes eggs) that within a matter of hours yield more alien women clones. The townspeople are trapped. They work together, turn on each other, attack each each, save each other, and so on.
I felt like the Luna Brothers were making a statement about women, men, relationships, authority, mob behavior, but I'm not exactly sure what that statement is. The story begins and ends with a set of panels about the cycle of life, its beauty and ugliness and here some of the beauty and a lot of the ugliness is on full display, but what it all means in the end I couldn't tell you.
June 16, 2013
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world by a transparent dome. The fifty six townspeople find themselves threatened by a giant glowing sperm and a horde of naked women who kill the local women and reproduce through sexual intercourse with the men. The invaders' different reaction to males and females pits the women against the men for survival. The authors have created a community much more diverse than normal, creating a microcosm of the USA to show how people react to crisis.
Originally published in 24 separate issues, there is plenty of room for character development and cliff-hanging moments. The main characters are two men, a low self esteem cashier and the town cop, and the female bartender they both love. As the naked women multiply and townspeople are brutally slain, there is lots of graphic content that is handled surprisingly well. The story provides enough detail to convey the plot while relying on gory or titillating imagery too much.
The setting seems strangely similar to Stephen King's novel Under The Dome, only he doesn't use naked alien women and a giant spermatozoa to accelerate the plot of his 1000+ page book. The similarities are enough to make me think he read Girls and saw a good plot device.
Originally published in 24 separate issues, there is plenty of room for character development and cliff-hanging moments. The main characters are two men, a low self esteem cashier and the town cop, and the female bartender they both love. As the naked women multiply and townspeople are brutally slain, there is lots of graphic content that is handled surprisingly well. The story provides enough detail to convey the plot while relying on gory or titillating imagery too much.
The setting seems strangely similar to Stephen King's novel Under The Dome, only he doesn't use naked alien women and a giant spermatozoa to accelerate the plot of his 1000+ page book. The similarities are enough to make me think he read Girls and saw a good plot device.
April 3, 2009
The book was a really compelling read, although not for the reasons I had expected. I was expecting the science-fiction story line to be the main event. What made the book such a pleasure to read, though, was the well-rounded characters that adapted and changed as the story unfolded around them. The sci-fi story would be incredibly hard to swallow if that were all that the Luna brothers explored. But as a springboard for complex character studies, it works surprisingly well. The characters are dropped in an endless number of thought-provoking scenarios, and I found myself constantly asking what I would do in each character's position. It's quite an insane social experiment.
Unfortunately, while the character interactions are intriguing, the actual sci-fi string does feel a bit flat. Perhaps this is due to the Luna brothers decision to not explain what's happening in explicit detail. But the characters really wouldn't experience a monologuing mastermind in this world, so to some degree the reader experiences the events just like the characters would.
Unfortunately, while the character interactions are intriguing, the actual sci-fi string does feel a bit flat. Perhaps this is due to the Luna brothers decision to not explain what's happening in explicit detail. But the characters really wouldn't experience a monologuing mastermind in this world, so to some degree the reader experiences the events just like the characters would.
September 12, 2016
Overall a very good read. It's odd that this story did some things very well such as pacing, action, and suspense. Then there a few things it didn't do nearly as well, and in those areas it did poorly enough to get only three stars from me. Character development seemed weak and really predictable as the story went along, and compared to the things the story did very well, this made its failings all the more noticeable. There just never was any character that I liked; if I didn't absolutely hate them, I was very "meh" towards them. Definitely worth the read if you're looking for a good sci-fi thriller though.
July 31, 2014
I can't begin to describe how bad this comic is. The rest of the world was lucky when this town got blocked off in it's dome. It was hard work but i made it through 3/4 of the story before giving up. At the end of the day it wasn't the crazy premise of the book it was the annoying dialogue and characters.
November 25, 2016
I read the first trade a few months ago and it left off with quite a cliffhanger. Finally the complete version was on sale at comixology (still is at this writing! More than half off!) so I was able to finish the story. Cliffhangers are what the Luna brothers excel at, and that's primarily why I lost sleep last night finishing this tome. I've read some reviews that claimed that there where few really likeable characters, and I would concur. But that's part of what I liked about it. There were no 100% heroes or 100% baddies. Just a bunch of flawed humans stuck in a survival situation they're completely unprepared for. There were times when I questioned why characters would respond the way they did, especially that no one would try to overpower a middle-aged woman with a shotgun. It would have been pretty easy if they'd surrounded her. But it goes to show how influenced we are by Hollywood and how differently we act sometimes than how we think we'll act. This story shows that side of human nature really well.
I went back and reread the first arc and it was fascinating seeing the characters before the events of the story affected them. Some didn't changed very much at all, some changed dramatically. I appreciated the Lunas turning the redneck stereotype on its head and not reinforcing negative stereotypes of the outspoken people of faith in the story.
I went back and reread the first arc and it was fascinating seeing the characters before the events of the story affected them. Some didn't changed very much at all, some changed dramatically. I appreciated the Lunas turning the redneck stereotype on its head and not reinforcing negative stereotypes of the outspoken people of faith in the story.
March 20, 2017
This was the weirdest and I mean weirdest comic book I've read in a while. It definitely had some great aspects about it including the premise of these aliens coming to earth to multiply and take over. It made my skin crawl every time one of the characters talked about it though. I mean hatching from eggs? That's just sick. I can't believe that I read all 600 pages of this so quickly and I think it's because I kept wanting to figure out why these girls were there in the first place. What I didn't like about it was the fact that as a reader you never really get the answer to that question. Some of the characters fell flat and the ending and resolution seemed a bit rushed. If you're into science fiction comics I would check this one out, but don't go in expecting something completely epic. Just enjoy it for what it is. I think that one of the most interesting aspects of this comic for me was definitely the artwork. I read Alex + Ada, all three volumes, maybe two years ago and the characters from that comic series look exactly like the characters in this series. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but Jonathan Luna definitely has an obvious style. Either way I'm glad I read it randomly and got to see more of their work.
January 25, 2018
Totally enjoyed this. It's a zombie apocalypse, but instead the whole world ending, it is just one little town, and instead of zombies it is sexy naked clone women from outer space and their sperm monster. Since the "girls" want to eat the earth women but cause no harm to the men, we get a battle of the sexes thrown into the survival story. Nothing very deep here, but it sure is fun. Bleak fun. Nature is red in tooth and claw, especially when that nature is a sperm monster from outer space.
Drawing style is pretty flat, but nice. Characters are most often shown fully facing the viewer, or at 90-degree angle. Layouts are very simple. (Reminds me of Alex & Ada in that way.) Characters are visually distinct, very easy to recognize and distinguish.
Drawing style is pretty flat, but nice. Characters are most often shown fully facing the viewer, or at 90-degree angle. Layouts are very simple. (Reminds me of Alex & Ada in that way.) Characters are visually distinct, very easy to recognize and distinguish.
November 3, 2015
Nooooooope.
Decent art, interesting story line that seemed like it was going somewhere but fizzled out. And the characters! They were awful. Every single woman was a terrible, manipulative shrew and the men were just as bad. There was no one to root for--I kind of wish that the entire town was destroyed under the dome.
Also, if you are going to have characters that are naked for the entire series, commit to it rather than doing the hair draped carefully over breasts thing. That was ridiculous.
Decent art, interesting story line that seemed like it was going somewhere but fizzled out. And the characters! They were awful. Every single woman was a terrible, manipulative shrew and the men were just as bad. There was no one to root for--I kind of wish that the entire town was destroyed under the dome.
Also, if you are going to have characters that are naked for the entire series, commit to it rather than doing the hair draped carefully over breasts thing. That was ridiculous.
November 13, 2017
The whole premise of this book is somewhat stupid. The more I read, the more I disliked everything about it. The behavior of characters, the premise of this book, art, ... From the reviews, I can tell that some people really liked it so I guess this is not the book for everybody.
February 3, 2020
Gripping.
August 25, 2022
Feels like it was written by a teenage INCEL.
April 10, 2017
Let's give this graphic novel a big: WTF?
I understand now why it received such low reviews in spite of it's very beautiful art.
TL;DR:
Writing: 2.5/5 (so much dialogue to slog through)
Plot: 3/5 (Cool premise although the metaphoric intention is compeltely lost on me. Would have been better if it was straight sci fi with no metaphors about humanity)
Characters: 2/5 (As another reviewer mentioned: everyone is an asshole. But this is a very honest portrayal of people in a disastrous event)
I stumbled upon Girls whilst browsing my library for Girls the HBO series. This complete volume, available and read online, was a whirlwind of a single unoriginal plot event, driven by repurposed imaginings of other writers. The author took the Dome from King and that classic novel/movie; the weird alien-girl-sex-monsters: I feel like I have seen this before in Luna's other graphic novels, Alex + Ada: The Complete Collection. This time, it's not robots, it's ALIENS.
Luna definitely has a weird penchant for sex with non-humans.
I just. don't. get it. What are you trying to tell me Luna? About the nature of human asshole-ness? The depravity of men and their sexual desire? WHAT IS IT? I need to know before I read another of your series. Next, after robots and aliens, what will it be? Horny ghost girls?
I understand now why it received such low reviews in spite of it's very beautiful art.
TL;DR:
Writing: 2.5/5 (so much dialogue to slog through)
Plot: 3/5 (Cool premise although the metaphoric intention is compeltely lost on me. Would have been better if it was straight sci fi with no metaphors about humanity)
Characters: 2/5 (As another reviewer mentioned: everyone is an asshole. But this is a very honest portrayal of people in a disastrous event)
I stumbled upon Girls whilst browsing my library for Girls the HBO series. This complete volume, available and read online, was a whirlwind of a single unoriginal plot event, driven by repurposed imaginings of other writers. The author took the Dome from King and that classic novel/movie; the weird alien-girl-sex-monsters: I feel like I have seen this before in Luna's other graphic novels, Alex + Ada: The Complete Collection. This time, it's not robots, it's ALIENS.
Luna definitely has a weird penchant for sex with non-humans.
I just. don't. get it. What are you trying to tell me Luna? About the nature of human asshole-ness? The depravity of men and their sexual desire? WHAT IS IT? I need to know before I read another of your series. Next, after robots and aliens, what will it be? Horny ghost girls?
May 17, 2018
Girls is a zombie-survivalist comic. Except the zombies are naked girls.
Yeah, that means the comic is a little exploitative, but nonetheless it manages to showcase a lot of the strengths of the genre. We get the story of a small group of people facing their worst nightmares and exposing their worst natures, but (perhaps) coming together in the end. This is all supported by beautiful art and by a thought-provoking (if brief) explanation of what's occurred.
This isn't a dense or brainy comic, but it is an enjoyable read.
Yeah, that means the comic is a little exploitative, but nonetheless it manages to showcase a lot of the strengths of the genre. We get the story of a small group of people facing their worst nightmares and exposing their worst natures, but (perhaps) coming together in the end. This is all supported by beautiful art and by a thought-provoking (if brief) explanation of what's occurred.
This isn't a dense or brainy comic, but it is an enjoyable read.
March 6, 2019
Woah!! That was brutal, nerve wracking, steamy, killing spree!! I didn't think I would like the story so much at the beginning. But, surprisingly it did well. It was a bit boring at parts though. However, the conflict between people worked really well. Instincts are not to be ignored, and it proved that big time. It also stated that people may loose their sanity and do unthinkable under trauma.
Lastly, this is a story strictly for adults. The main theme is based on lust and results. Villains were beautiful, and the ending shocked me.
That's all I can say.
Lastly, this is a story strictly for adults. The main theme is based on lust and results. Villains were beautiful, and the ending shocked me.
That's all I can say.
April 26, 2022
Species meets walking dead? Interesting, different concept. Read like a bad horror movie & I just happen to enjoy bad horror movies. A decent amount of character development. I got a few pangs of feels when characters died. 😿 Don’t regret binge-reading the series at all.
October 31, 2021
If you're going to have a 600+ page graphic novel where conventionally beautiful naked white women suddenly appear and inspire men to betray the women in their lives to the destruction of their whole community, you better have a point. I don't see that this book did, not philosophically, culturally, or about anything. And at least give us an explanation for the gimmick — even a silly one — if you're going to place an impenetrable dome over a small rural town and feature a giant sperm that eats women. (This book came out before Stephen King's "Under the Dome," which is 100 times better.)
I liked "Alex + Ada: The Complete Collection by one of the brothers who created this but, in retrospect after reading "Girls," it too used women as a plot device related to men's lust without really mining this rich vein. The main female characters here were never interesting: they were aggressive man-haters or mushy doormats who stand by their men. And the men were just ... meh, there's no point in complaining about this book anymore. It was an OK action book with pointless, constant nudity that goes out of its way to avoid nipples and genitalia, maybe because emphasizing sexuality would've revealed how shallow the book is.
I liked "Alex + Ada: The Complete Collection by one of the brothers who created this but, in retrospect after reading "Girls," it too used women as a plot device related to men's lust without really mining this rich vein. The main female characters here were never interesting: they were aggressive man-haters or mushy doormats who stand by their men. And the men were just ... meh, there's no point in complaining about this book anymore. It was an OK action book with pointless, constant nudity that goes out of its way to avoid nipples and genitalia, maybe because emphasizing sexuality would've revealed how shallow the book is.
January 1, 2014
I'm not quite sure what I made of this. It was a compelling read and once I started I couldn't stop, but at the same time it made very little impact on me. The concept and gender theme is fairly interesting, but the sci-fi conceit is lacking and seems solely to exist to pit the genders against each other and lacks any big pay off. Perhaps that's intended as part of the commentary on the nature of life, but it came off as feeling like the writers didn't really know what they were doing with it. Other reviewers seem to have sided with either the men or the women, however I found it hard to relate to any particular character, let alone a gender, and didn't much care what happened to anyone involved, which is probably part of the reason it fell a little flat. That said, some interesting dilemmas, situations, and moral problems arise, and it does keep you entertained throughout. As long as you aren't expecting to be blown away, the skilled artwork, film-like pacing, gore, humour, and unusual premise make for an enjoyable enough experience.
March 30, 2020
Amazing series.
I got into it because it was listed under horror and I wondered how naked women were horrible. Soon I was hooked. The writing was great.
Yes, if you approach this looking only at the surface, it is some rampaging naked women trying to screw all the guys and kill all the women. If that’s all you see, then it’s not better than a 1 star.
But this is much more than that, just like The Walking Dead isn’t about zombies. Hopefully you get that.
In the chaos and worry that happens, there’s much deeper investigation in various themes and we see heart of darkness, forgiveness, trust, and more.
Just wow.
This isn’t about naked women running around killing and fucking, it’s about some very real and human people figuring it out together and hitting some bumps along the way.
I got into it because it was listed under horror and I wondered how naked women were horrible. Soon I was hooked. The writing was great.
Yes, if you approach this looking only at the surface, it is some rampaging naked women trying to screw all the guys and kill all the women. If that’s all you see, then it’s not better than a 1 star.
But this is much more than that, just like The Walking Dead isn’t about zombies. Hopefully you get that.
In the chaos and worry that happens, there’s much deeper investigation in various themes and we see heart of darkness, forgiveness, trust, and more.
Just wow.
This isn’t about naked women running around killing and fucking, it’s about some very real and human people figuring it out together and hitting some bumps along the way.
January 4, 2011
Ufff, estuve unas cuantas horas leyendo esto, y anoche me dejó peor que desvelado. Recién lo terminé y me siento agotado y no tengo ganas ni de merendar. Por ahora sólo puedo decir que es una extraña pero atrapante mezcla de Y The Last Man con las películas de terror más bizarras -tomando la acepción moderna del término-, acompañado por unos dibujos muy pero muy bien logrados y expresivos. La narrativa es un tanto "descomprimida" pero resulta funcional a la historia. El final, algo fumado pero no descabellado.
Después de airearme un poco la cabeza quizás escriba una reseña más elaborada.
Después de airearme un poco la cabeza quizás escriba una reseña más elaborada.
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