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Fight Girls
Fight Girls #1
Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of "Queen of the Galaxy." To win the challenge each contestant must survive the hazards of the planet's harsh landscape, the ferocious predators on and below its surface, and their fellow contestants. This edition of the contest has a twist: one of the contestants is an infiltrator who has her eye on something bigger than the prize. Who is she and what does she really want?
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30 pages, Unknown Binding
Published July 7, 2020
About the author
Frank Cho
404 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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September 6, 2023
The premise is basic and common to most dystopian scifi. Ten girls fight for an ultimate crowning glory— literally, since the winner gets to become the Queen of the empire. But it's the absolutely brilliant execution that elevates the level of this series above several others.
This first volume was stunning. But lest I overindulge, I would stop here and allow me to peruse the remaining volumes at a later stage.
In the meanwhile, highly recommended.
This first volume was stunning. But lest I overindulge, I would stop here and allow me to peruse the remaining volumes at a later stage.
In the meanwhile, highly recommended.
July 14, 2021
Another Winner by an excellent storyteller and artist
SF illustrated comic
Frank Cho strikes again with his opening episode of Fight Girls with three obvious casualties, though the first one is injured, and possibly still in the race. The jungle challenge is active with not just mammals but also large dinosaur variants. Getting clocked from behind is a rude and ruthless move; we don't know all the rules. Contestant #1 is down but not necessarily out and Frank might yet surprise us. Oddly, too, I can't help but assume a fertility check as being a part of a woman's qualifications, and wonder if the former queen was altered by ingesting something or exposed to something over a period of time. How long was the queen in power? How much power does she actually have? Like is she alone, have support from her territory of origin, or have a chance to build a retinue loyal to her? The jungle land course had significant infrastructure -- the temple, energy source, drones, etc. And gambling is embedded in the video event. This implies the queen is on a probationary timer to get pregnant.
How trustworthy are the physicians? The queen's health was examined and she was dethroned, but was it truth or did the king just get bored or angry with the queen? How do we readers know the king is fertile? The problem could be him? How often was the queen having sex and under what circumstances? Are fertility drugs allowed? I'm thinking no, and more, this might be an annual contest with commercial and political interests (corruption) involved. Imagine ten regions with aggressive spy and assassination networks trying to keep their winner protected while undercutting rivals. Do the various regions get bonuses in commerce and politics? (More incentive for corruption.)
Frank Cho drew us readers in by a gladiator-type set of contests, but true nature of the contest may very different than what we first assume. The woman who becomes queen may have as much real power as a Miss Universe winner (basically none), and a lot of incentive to keep the queen from conceiving, much less successfully birthing a healthy child, thus thwarting rival regions the bragging rights. If it is like the latter, the skills, beauty, and drive are all components to becoming a royal breeder without any political power to affect change, institutionalizing women as secondary power holders, and trivializing the queen's accomplishments in reaching the top in favor of her ability to conceive. And if watching women killed and eaten as well as killing each other in the combat round is entertainment, what happens to a dethroned queen? If it IS an annual event when the queen fails to make a baby, being dethroned might be fatal.
Gladiator-type contests say a lot about a society, and implies an inward shift in social focus. Indeed, the game itself becomes another political power. If the queen has a child, the game goes dormant, and that would be bad for business. To recap, ten regions, each seeking to have a woman become queen while preventing all other rivals from achieving the same thing, and the contest investors who don't want ANY queen to succeed. Are there interstellar races who would also like to see the line of succession fail? Is the king a power holder or a figurehead valued for his name and sexual potency? Affecting the king's fertility also becomes a political option.
Very interested in the next issue.
SF illustrated comic
Frank Cho strikes again with his opening episode of Fight Girls with three obvious casualties, though the first one is injured, and possibly still in the race. The jungle challenge is active with not just mammals but also large dinosaur variants. Getting clocked from behind is a rude and ruthless move; we don't know all the rules. Contestant #1 is down but not necessarily out and Frank might yet surprise us. Oddly, too, I can't help but assume a fertility check as being a part of a woman's qualifications, and wonder if the former queen was altered by ingesting something or exposed to something over a period of time. How long was the queen in power? How much power does she actually have? Like is she alone, have support from her territory of origin, or have a chance to build a retinue loyal to her? The jungle land course had significant infrastructure -- the temple, energy source, drones, etc. And gambling is embedded in the video event. This implies the queen is on a probationary timer to get pregnant.
How trustworthy are the physicians? The queen's health was examined and she was dethroned, but was it truth or did the king just get bored or angry with the queen? How do we readers know the king is fertile? The problem could be him? How often was the queen having sex and under what circumstances? Are fertility drugs allowed? I'm thinking no, and more, this might be an annual contest with commercial and political interests (corruption) involved. Imagine ten regions with aggressive spy and assassination networks trying to keep their winner protected while undercutting rivals. Do the various regions get bonuses in commerce and politics? (More incentive for corruption.)
Frank Cho drew us readers in by a gladiator-type set of contests, but true nature of the contest may very different than what we first assume. The woman who becomes queen may have as much real power as a Miss Universe winner (basically none), and a lot of incentive to keep the queen from conceiving, much less successfully birthing a healthy child, thus thwarting rival regions the bragging rights. If it is like the latter, the skills, beauty, and drive are all components to becoming a royal breeder without any political power to affect change, institutionalizing women as secondary power holders, and trivializing the queen's accomplishments in reaching the top in favor of her ability to conceive. And if watching women killed and eaten as well as killing each other in the combat round is entertainment, what happens to a dethroned queen? If it IS an annual event when the queen fails to make a baby, being dethroned might be fatal.
Gladiator-type contests say a lot about a society, and implies an inward shift in social focus. Indeed, the game itself becomes another political power. If the queen has a child, the game goes dormant, and that would be bad for business. To recap, ten regions, each seeking to have a woman become queen while preventing all other rivals from achieving the same thing, and the contest investors who don't want ANY queen to succeed. Are there interstellar races who would also like to see the line of succession fail? Is the king a power holder or a figurehead valued for his name and sexual potency? Affecting the king's fertility also becomes a political option.
Very interested in the next issue.
July 23, 2021
Athletic, toned, incredibly beautiful women competing against each other to see who’s the biggest badass. Plus, dinosaurs!
I’m eagerly counting down the days to issue 2.
I’m eagerly counting down the days to issue 2.
September 9, 2025
The art is great. The writing is awful. Upcoming rant.
The last issue is disgusting and absolute garbage writing, but the awful writing was already on full display from the very beginning even in this issue #1.
So, the supposed champion and favourite to win the whole thing stands with her back to all the other girls, starts giving a monologue, and then gets her skull cracked from behind by the psycho girl. From the reader’s perspective we don’t know the rules, so you might even overlook this. But when you spend even a second thinking about it, you realise how stupid and nonsensical this moment is.
Was that against the rules? In that case the psycho girl would be eliminated herself, so evidently it wasn’t.
Yet, if the rules allow the girls to immediately attack and kill each other at the start of the first challenge, how is it that the champion and favourite to win turns her back to everyone and starts monologuing? Is she stupid? Clearly she was, if the rules allow that. Yet, later the prime minister is surprised that this psycho girl "bested" his champion? What do you mean "bested"? She was acting like a complete idiot. So, once again, the writing makes no sense.
Alternatively, perhaps the rules do allow fighting, but the girls practically never act on it, as they have too much respect for their country, the challenges, and are more willing to cooperate and win fairly. Meaning there is perhaps an unwritten rule against attacking, even if technically allowed. Girl #6 mentions cooperating and saving another girl for her country. So perhaps they respect the game and the country too much to attack like that. It would mean the psycho girl broke the unwritten rule by attacking from behind, completely unprovoked. In that case, the other girls should see her as a threat to them all, disrespecting her country and the challenge, and breaking the unwritten rule. So, if this was the case, they would have eliminated her right there by teaming up in retaliation.
So, despite the story never explaining itself, it doesn’t tell you the rules, so it can "surprise" you with nonsensical moments like that. But no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t make any sense. It is simply stupid, awful, nonsensical writing. And for what? So they could "set up" one of the stupidest and most disgusting endings of any comic in issue #5.
I doubt anyone will read my rant, but if you do, save yourself the braincells and avoid this comic. And if you desperately want to see it for the art, stick to the first 4 issues (the only ones worth looking at), and avoid issue #5 like the plague.
End of rant.
The last issue is disgusting and absolute garbage writing, but the awful writing was already on full display from the very beginning even in this issue #1.
So, the supposed champion and favourite to win the whole thing stands with her back to all the other girls, starts giving a monologue, and then gets her skull cracked from behind by the psycho girl. From the reader’s perspective we don’t know the rules, so you might even overlook this. But when you spend even a second thinking about it, you realise how stupid and nonsensical this moment is.
Was that against the rules? In that case the psycho girl would be eliminated herself, so evidently it wasn’t.
Yet, if the rules allow the girls to immediately attack and kill each other at the start of the first challenge, how is it that the champion and favourite to win turns her back to everyone and starts monologuing? Is she stupid? Clearly she was, if the rules allow that. Yet, later the prime minister is surprised that this psycho girl "bested" his champion? What do you mean "bested"? She was acting like a complete idiot. So, once again, the writing makes no sense.
Alternatively, perhaps the rules do allow fighting, but the girls practically never act on it, as they have too much respect for their country, the challenges, and are more willing to cooperate and win fairly. Meaning there is perhaps an unwritten rule against attacking, even if technically allowed. Girl #6 mentions cooperating and saving another girl for her country. So perhaps they respect the game and the country too much to attack like that. It would mean the psycho girl broke the unwritten rule by attacking from behind, completely unprovoked. In that case, the other girls should see her as a threat to them all, disrespecting her country and the challenge, and breaking the unwritten rule. So, if this was the case, they would have eliminated her right there by teaming up in retaliation.
So, despite the story never explaining itself, it doesn’t tell you the rules, so it can "surprise" you with nonsensical moments like that. But no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t make any sense. It is simply stupid, awful, nonsensical writing. And for what? So they could "set up" one of the stupidest and most disgusting endings of any comic in issue #5.
I doubt anyone will read my rant, but if you do, save yourself the braincells and avoid this comic. And if you desperately want to see it for the art, stick to the first 4 issues (the only ones worth looking at), and avoid issue #5 like the plague.
End of rant.
February 14, 2024
This review is for the entire series. It's Frank Cho. If you like his art, and that's enough for you, then you will rate this much higher than I did. There's nothing wrong with the plot here, there's just not much of it, and no real surprises. 10 women compete in a Hunger Games/Battle Royal style tournament of deadly races culminating in a round of hand to hand combat to decide the new queen. You know from the start that there's something going on with one of the contestants, and while there is a small twist towards the end, it's still what you think. This is an action book with great art but very little world building or character development to make you care about anything other than the pictures. It's fine, but not something I'll come back to most likely.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 23, 2021
Hot girls in underwear Fight dinosaurs and each other. Yes, it realy is comicbook by Frank Cho
December 15, 2021
Mostly a bunch of great jungle girl art from Cho. A fair amount of scene setting, and some surprising character moments. Overall I liked it.
February 14, 2022
Thrilling
Can't wait to read more. On the edge of my seat from the begging. Thrilling ride.
I recommend it, for sure.
Can't wait to read more. On the edge of my seat from the begging. Thrilling ride.
I recommend it, for sure.
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