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Jungle Girl
Jungle Girl Volume 1
Dynamite proudly presents Frank Cho's Jungle Girl Overseen by co-writer and artist Frank Cho and infused the issue with everything Cho fans want to see - beautiful women, thrilling adventures, and, of course, dinosaurs - Jungle Girl also features Co-writer Doug (Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes, The 'Nam) Murray who's along for the ride, as is series artist Adriano (New Battlestar Galactica: Zarek, Red Sonja) Batista as they bring the Jungle Girl to life Jana the Jungle Girl races to save a group of intruders into this strange land - a land filled with dinosaurs, prehistoric men, and much, much more Each issue reveals more clues about the nature of Jana, and of the island itself
136 pages, Hardcover
First published August 29, 2008
About the author
Frank Cho
403 books95 followersThe second of three children, Frank Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsville, Maryland.
Cho received no formal training as an artist. He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called University2 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park. After graduation, Cho adapted elements of this work for use in a professionally syndicated strip, Liberty Meadows.
Cho received no formal training as an artist. He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called University2 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park. After graduation, Cho adapted elements of this work for use in a professionally syndicated strip, Liberty Meadows.
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October 19, 2020
This is like an old campy "B" movie. Jungle Girl helps a group of people when their plane crashlands on an island full of dinosaurs. Great art, a fun adventure story.
July 9, 2020
Jungle Girl by Frank Cho and Doug Murray is fun and sexy and just good B movie fun.
Summary -
Jana the Jungle Girl lives in a dangerous land that time has somehow forgotten. But Jana knows very well how to take care of herself in a land of dinosaurs and dangerous cavemen. So when a plane full of modern day men and one hot girl crash land, Jana knows its up to her to rescue and care for these strangers. But these strangers are not so helpless and innocent. They are carrying a cargo of cocaine and weapons and Jana must not only protect these stranded people from the world they are now in, but she must also protect herself from them!
Review - Okay this is like a fun Saturday morning kid show only rated R. It is certainly not the most cerebral comic out there but it is a lot of fun. Come on, girls with skimpy clothing and dinosaurs and explosions, what more could you want? But Jana is not only super, jungle bikini clad sexy, but she is smart as well. Street smart only her hood is the jungle and all that dwell within.
Great artwork, decent story and just loads of fun!
Summary -
Jana the Jungle Girl lives in a dangerous land that time has somehow forgotten. But Jana knows very well how to take care of herself in a land of dinosaurs and dangerous cavemen. So when a plane full of modern day men and one hot girl crash land, Jana knows its up to her to rescue and care for these strangers. But these strangers are not so helpless and innocent. They are carrying a cargo of cocaine and weapons and Jana must not only protect these stranded people from the world they are now in, but she must also protect herself from them!
Review - Okay this is like a fun Saturday morning kid show only rated R. It is certainly not the most cerebral comic out there but it is a lot of fun. Come on, girls with skimpy clothing and dinosaurs and explosions, what more could you want? But Jana is not only super, jungle bikini clad sexy, but she is smart as well. Street smart only her hood is the jungle and all that dwell within.
Great artwork, decent story and just loads of fun!
September 18, 2021
Jana rocks. She is invincible and powerful killing large beasts with her bare hands.
A high excitement wonderfully illustrated adventure.
A high excitement wonderfully illustrated adventure.
October 5, 2018
The story isn't aiming for realism and the only mature thing is the way the main character is drawn. The plot is pulled straight out of the pulp genre, but if you enjoy Warlord of Mars, then you should be ok. The target audience for this comic seems to be no older than teenage level, though.
Jana shows us her stuff from very flattering angles, often gratuitously. It's the sole reason I'm reading the comic. If you're put off by half-naked women, then this one isn't for you. There may just be too many close-ups of her prominent features in here. Nah, that's not possible. TnA all the way! Even she complains at one point: 'Make it quick. I feel a little exposed here.' Could it be the flimsy outfit?
The artist's main failing was the way he draws archers. While everything looks believable, the pulling of a bow string seems to completely beyond his understanding.
After a successful hunt, Jana the Jungle Girl is interrupted by a plane crash. She guides the survivors, a film crew for a survival show, to safety. There are many dangers along the way, like deadly prehistoric dinosaurs and indigenous people. She doesn't do a very good job of protecting them, but somehow the atmosphere is still lighthearted even when one of the survivors is bitten by a huge worm, another is eaten by a dinosaur. You know, regular prehistoric jungle stuff.
Jana shows us her stuff from very flattering angles, often gratuitously. It's the sole reason I'm reading the comic. If you're put off by half-naked women, then this one isn't for you. There may just be too many close-ups of her prominent features in here. Nah, that's not possible. TnA all the way! Even she complains at one point: 'Make it quick. I feel a little exposed here.' Could it be the flimsy outfit?
The artist's main failing was the way he draws archers. While everything looks believable, the pulling of a bow string seems to completely beyond his understanding.
After a successful hunt, Jana the Jungle Girl is interrupted by a plane crash. She guides the survivors, a film crew for a survival show, to safety. There are many dangers along the way, like deadly prehistoric dinosaurs and indigenous people. She doesn't do a very good job of protecting them, but somehow the atmosphere is still lighthearted even when one of the survivors is bitten by a huge worm, another is eaten by a dinosaur. You know, regular prehistoric jungle stuff.
April 4, 2013
campy, campy, campy.
but fun, fun, fun.
Very nice and sexy artwork.
The story is one comic-book cliché after another, one cliff-hanger after another.
But its just so darn fun... sit back and enjoy the ride.
but fun, fun, fun.
Very nice and sexy artwork.
The story is one comic-book cliché after another, one cliff-hanger after another.
But its just so darn fun... sit back and enjoy the ride.
July 14, 2025
2,5 estrelas
August 10, 2026
Just campy b-movie stuff. It was basically a lot of angled shots to show off Jungle girl while telling a mediocre story about strangers crash landing on her island of the lost and finding out about this new world while also trying to transport their opium.
And then it was over. That was kinda the best part.
And then it was over. That was kinda the best part.
April 14, 2024
The first book of this graphic novel trilogy is a book that reminds the reader of the pulp books of the 70's and an earlier era.
To comment on this dispassionately the hand of the author Frank Cho who has a history of figure drawing, precise lines, and depiction of well-endowed women that has been seen in numerous similar books like Shanna the sea devil but the story goes beyond the mundane and pin-up when one goes through the story. With shades of The Lost World, Journey to centre of the earth, Land that time forgot and Cthulhu the volumes exude a story beyond just the pin-up art.
This story straddles the genres of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy with giants of an earlier era, the dinosaurs who seem to stay parallelly with human tribes and other animals of various periods from various era's.
Into this smorgasbord drops a plane which crashes with humans onboard. The story progresses from that point on.
Good start to the trilogy.
To comment on this dispassionately the hand of the author Frank Cho who has a history of figure drawing, precise lines, and depiction of well-endowed women that has been seen in numerous similar books like Shanna the sea devil but the story goes beyond the mundane and pin-up when one goes through the story. With shades of The Lost World, Journey to centre of the earth, Land that time forgot and Cthulhu the volumes exude a story beyond just the pin-up art.
This story straddles the genres of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy with giants of an earlier era, the dinosaurs who seem to stay parallelly with human tribes and other animals of various periods from various era's.
Into this smorgasbord drops a plane which crashes with humans onboard. The story progresses from that point on.
Good start to the trilogy.
June 21, 2024
Frank Cho sure does draw cheesecake. And Adriano Batista does a fair job of capturing his style in the interior art.
I'm a sucker for Lost Worlds, Jungle Adventure, all that kind of thing. And I'm not above cheesecake. This is...OK. The writing isn't bad. The story hits a lot of familiar subgenre beats. It's OK.
It's from Dynamite, like the Warlord of Mars series I was just reading, and they share that same weirdly American sense of propriety. Skimpy outfits are OK, but sex and nudity are taboo. But you can slice the top of someone's head off and see the insides fall out, and all is well. The older I get, the weirder our comfort with violence and revulsion with sexual or non-sexual nudity bothers me.
You can kill as many people as you want on screen in a movie and it's OK for kids. One nipple and it's time to call the morality police.
I'm a sucker for Lost Worlds, Jungle Adventure, all that kind of thing. And I'm not above cheesecake. This is...OK. The writing isn't bad. The story hits a lot of familiar subgenre beats. It's OK.
It's from Dynamite, like the Warlord of Mars series I was just reading, and they share that same weirdly American sense of propriety. Skimpy outfits are OK, but sex and nudity are taboo. But you can slice the top of someone's head off and see the insides fall out, and all is well. The older I get, the weirder our comfort with violence and revulsion with sexual or non-sexual nudity bothers me.
You can kill as many people as you want on screen in a movie and it's OK for kids. One nipple and it's time to call the morality police.
October 21, 2018
This has to be the campiest pulp that ever pulped it's way across a camping parlour.
Translation: If you take life too seriously you will not enjoy this book, for everyone else its not a bad read.
What has to be stated up front is that the art on display is great and its for this reason that this book works at all. In a world where quality artwork seems to be becoming less and less important to mainstream publishers; I ended up finding this series art style to be very refreshing.
The story itself is just ok fun, just sit back and enjoy the ride but whatever you do; do not think to hard as It will ruin the incredibly well illustrated fun action!
Translation: If you take life too seriously you will not enjoy this book, for everyone else its not a bad read.
What has to be stated up front is that the art on display is great and its for this reason that this book works at all. In a world where quality artwork seems to be becoming less and less important to mainstream publishers; I ended up finding this series art style to be very refreshing.
The story itself is just ok fun, just sit back and enjoy the ride but whatever you do; do not think to hard as It will ruin the incredibly well illustrated fun action!
September 9, 2019
A fun. campy, sexy little book in the vein of the pulp novels of old. An adventure full of non-stop action complemented by brilliant artwork this book as light as it is entertaining. There are dinosaurs, tribes of cavemen, lost greenhorns and a scantily clad heroine. This is the type of book they just don't write anymore and I wished they did.
November 8, 2018
Remove the porn-star body and the dumb bikini, and you'd actually have a decent Jules Verne-esque story with a strong female protagonist.
July 20, 2022
Got this via a Humble Bundle. The artwork is ok, but the story is just ridiculous.
December 25, 2011
I'd give it a four for the art, and a two for the story. My copy has a different cover. I enjoyed it. The main issue with the story was that there was no real central plot. Jungle Girl finds the survivors of a crashed plane and decides to escort them to safety. We don't know where safety is to be found so we're not sure of the destination. Mostly they seem to be driven by things that are after them.
Jungle Girl then becomes almost fanatical about saving the group for reasons we don't really understand. She gets to know them in ways that aren't shown. For example, she grieves when one man is killed even though she showed no evidence of having developed a friendship with him.
This is the first Jungle Girl comic I've ever read so maybe I'm missing something about the character that everyone else knows. It's also probably the nature of a comic like this that plot threads don't get tied off neatly.
Overall, I enjoyed it fairly well and it's a very quick read.
Jungle Girl then becomes almost fanatical about saving the group for reasons we don't really understand. She gets to know them in ways that aren't shown. For example, she grieves when one man is killed even though she showed no evidence of having developed a friendship with him.
This is the first Jungle Girl comic I've ever read so maybe I'm missing something about the character that everyone else knows. It's also probably the nature of a comic like this that plot threads don't get tied off neatly.
Overall, I enjoyed it fairly well and it's a very quick read.
May 31, 2015
Dynamite comics publishes a whole sub genre of comics featuring scantily clad heroines resurrected from or inspired by pulp fiction. This one is an incredibly dopey but highly entertaining version of a female Tarzan. Here she and her caveman-like sidekick try to lead a dubious band of plane crash survivors to safety in the face of numerous dinosaur attacks. This leads to lots of action, a surprising amount of gore and very little sense. What's a white girl doing in the middle of a prehistoric jungle? How can she speak perfect English? Who cares? Since this a Frank Cho creation it's all just an excuse to draw Jana in lots of "good girl" poses, mostly highlighting her posterior. The art, not by Cho however, is often stunning, especially during the dinosaur bits, helping to to make this politically incorrect nonsense enjoyable despite itself.
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August 7, 2011I had my doubts since Cho wasn't drawing the book, just doing the covers, but the artwork is fantastic. the coloring is especially impressive and really highlights characters expressions. the plot is quite routine, but that is to be expected when you pick up a book like this. it perfectly captures the by-gone pulp jungle book era.
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