Jamie Revell
G'nort's Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
- Julie Benson
- Shawna Benson
- Vasco Georgiev
- Jen Bartel
- Alejandro Sánchez
- Marissa Louise
- Rain Beredo
- Meghan Hetrick
- Jorge Jiménez
- Simon Bisley
I'm old enough to remember when “swimsuit specials” seemed to be a common thing on the comic book shelves back in the '90s. I never read any, but I got the impression from the covers that they were excuses to include cheesecake images of the female characters wearing skimpier clothing than usual, and were little more than that. Unlike Marvel, DC has apparently not done one before, and the cover art shows that they're at least trying to poke fun at the concept.
What you get inside are two short stories and a one-page mock interview with G'nort that's not as amusing as it would like to be. The first of the stories is (I assume) traditional for the type, with five swimsuit-clad superheroines defending Gotham's beachfront from the Penguin. Who, admittedly, is also in a swimsuit and played for laughs. It's a light and fluffy summer story without trying to be any more than that - and, by the way, who'd have thought that Gotham City even had a sunny beachfront?
The second story is a gay romance with Apollo and Midnight, who, aside from a few panels early on, are fully dressed and not actually on a beach. So, not really fitting the theme, to be honest.
The rest is kind of what you'd expect from the title - splash art of superheroes in swimsuits. Slightly more women than men, with Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn being the most popular, but both genders are represented, which I suspect was less the case in the past. Most of the art is pretty good and I wouldn't describe it as voyeuristic, some of it being definitely tongue-in-cheek... but you know what you're getting with this title.
I'm old enough to remember when “swimsuit specials” seemed to be a common thing on the comic book shelves back in the '90s. I never read any, but I got the impression from the covers that they were excuses to include cheesecake images of the female characters wearing skimpier clothing than usual, and were little more than that. Unlike Marvel, DC has apparently not done one before, and the cover art shows that they're at least trying to poke fun at the concept.
What you get inside are two short stories and a one-page mock interview with G'nort that's not as amusing as it would like to be. The first of the stories is (I assume) traditional for the type, with five swimsuit-clad superheroines defending Gotham's beachfront from the Penguin. Who, admittedly, is also in a swimsuit and played for laughs. It's a light and fluffy summer story without trying to be any more than that - and, by the way, who'd have thought that Gotham City even had a sunny beachfront?
The second story is a gay romance with Apollo and Midnight, who, aside from a few panels early on, are fully dressed and not actually on a beach. So, not really fitting the theme, to be honest.
The rest is kind of what you'd expect from the title - splash art of superheroes in swimsuits. Slightly more women than men, with Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn being the most popular, but both genders are represented, which I suspect was less the case in the past. Most of the art is pretty good and I wouldn't describe it as voyeuristic, some of it being definitely tongue-in-cheek... but you know what you're getting with this title.