Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (2021) #1

Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (2021)

by Stephen Mooney, Jethro Morales (Artist)

The Queen of the Jungle Returns! Featuring an all-star creative team and the most amazing roster of cover artists this side of the jungle! The thrilling adventure combines the classic elements of the legendary character along with a modern sensibility that will make it the perfect debut for fans new and old! And lookit those Linsner! Parillo! Besch! Suydam! Cohen! Mooney! Cosplay! Sheena is recruited – that’s being kind, she’s kind of forced to go! - to enter the “bio-dome” -- an amazing synthesis and nature and machine, where something has gone terribly wrong. Outside the dome, she’s faced with human trickery and deceit, inside the dome, she faces the deadly jungle and a fast, murdering mystery. Jurrassic Park meets Predator meets The Hunger Games. Sheena is Queen of all. Sheena Fun • Sheena debuted in Joshua B. Power's British magazine Wags #46 in January 1938 -- created by Will Eisner and S. M. "Jerry" Iger. • Eisner said an inspiration for the character's name was H. Rider Haggard's 1886 jungle-goddess novel She. • Sheena first appeared stateside in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #1, and subsequently in every issue (Sept. 1938 – April 1953), as well as in her groundbreaking 18-issue spin-off, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (Spring 1942 – Winter 1952), the first comic book to title-star a female character. • Fiction House, originally a pulp magazine publisher, ran prose stories of its star heroine in the latter-day pulp one-shot Stories of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (Spring 1951) and Jungle Stories vol. 5 #11 (Spring 1954). Stephen Mooney is a comics writer and artist from Dublin, whose work is mainly published by IDW Publishing in the USA. After drawing a series of TV spin-offs, IDW is now publishing his creator-owned pulp adventure series Half Past Danger. He also works as an illustrator, concept artist and storyboard artist in advertising, as well as several Bettie Page adventures for Dynamite Entertainment!

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 3, 2021

Reviews

[Dannan Tavona · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent artwork

Comic and pulp-era female MC, jungle adventure

Artwork is fairly consistent, but depending on the angle, can change Sheena's appearance a bit. Story moves quick with characters the MC knows but are new to me. Unsurprisingly, the artists doing the various covers mix animals from different ecosystems. Howlers, talked about, are a new world monkey, yet Sheena is often paired with a black leopard, a cat from Africa and parts of Asia, not the New World. Ignoring all the obvious faux paus, and the variety of animals and environments squeezed into one bio-dome way too small to hold them all, it's okay to roll your eyes and get on with the story. Not first rate but not terrible either, and fun if you let it.

Amazing how convenient strands of hair and fragile jungle skins are at hiding the usual forbidden unmentionables.

[Clay Bartel · Rating 4 out of 5]

The arts amazing and is the reason I've been collecting.

The story so far is straight forward. Sheena has beek forced to hunt a mysterious beast in a enviro dome deep in the jungle.

Intrigued to see of things get more complex or if the series will just be held together by the beautiful art.

[Johan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Got this as part of the The Boys vs The Girls Humble Bundle. I wouldn't have picked it up otherwise. The cover artwork is magnificent. Once you get past that, the artwork is mediocre and the same goes for the story.

[Julio Bonilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

-The pack turns-