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**Koltreg** · 08-19-2011, 08:29 AM

No, that was her mother, Diana Daggers. Tina Daggers has the realistic figure and she fights political corruption in dinosaur court.

**BIGREDROBOT** · (This post was last modified: 08-19-2011 08:52 AM by BIGREDROBOT.)

Speaking of dinosaurs, has anybody heard anything about Flint McStone and His Daring Zeppelin Adventures At the Dawn of Time? Hans Rickshaw announced he was writing a new series last year at the Southeast North Dakota Fantasy, Science Fiction and Comical Books Convention (I can't find that Newsarama link anywhere but I know I read it) and that Camaro Hotjeans was gonna be drawing it, but then Camaro got pulled in on that Prelude to Forgotten Frontiers: Giant Girls Vs. Super Space Mutants tie-in book and I haven't heard anything about it since. I'm gonna be mega-bummed if it doesn't get made. The first book, Flint McStone and His Daring Zeppelin Adventures At the Walmart of Pain, was like my favorite thing ever.

Essa Dee · 08-19-2011, 09:00 AM

As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

MaxtotheMax · 08-19-2011, 09:02 AM

(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote: As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

Well if you start with MacArthur Slippers' "Fight-Murder Saga" it'll probably all seem logical from there. It did introduce the Moon Sparrows, after all.

deebeemonster · 08-19-2011, 09:03 AM

(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote: As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

I know a lot of people are going to give me hell for this, but I really think a good place to start would be El Capitan FaceBlast: The Hard Reckoning.

While it is a relatively new trade, it covers a lot of the backstories of the rest of the line. And you can't go wrong with Jeck Cardbody's artwork

**Koltreg** · 08-19-2011, 09:08 AM

I personally like Jeff Johnson's original run on Prometheus Fisk, Defender of the Helpless

chudleycannonfodder · 08-19-2011, 09:47 AM

(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote: As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

Be sure to stay away from anything published by Isaac Maston. "ACE Comics?" More like "BCE Comics." Right, RIGHT?

**BIGREDROBOT** · (This post was last modified: 08-19-2011 09:53 AM by BIGREDROBOT.)

(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote: As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

Magic Hippie Gang's Carnival of Deceit - It's a classic. Roshomba Dodonna and Kilkie Ferguson really made me feel for those Mayonnaise people and their plight. And when Flower Girl uses the power of holistic healing and organic, community-grown vegetables to defeat the Hyper-Monger? That's the good stuff, right there.

Melancholio, The Sleep Master: The Dream of Sleeping Dreamers - A little cliché, but still great. Chester Greenfield's mythical take on the 1930's character of the immortal and very sad Sleep Master sold a million ankhs and stole the hearts of alienated teenagers everywhere where there is a Hot Topic within driving distance. Seriously, when him and Shakespeare and Galileo go to the witch-burnings in Salem and Shakespeare's like, "What webs we weave when we spin webs of deceit." I was like, "Yes."

I Can't Believe The Pickle We Are In With This Crisis - How Rodolpho Rodriguez managed to draw every singe comic book character ever in this centuries-spanning mega-epic is a miracle. The fact that he drew half of them nude is just icing on the cake. Plus, you have Gerhard von Shootterdup writing the ever-living hell out of this thing. Thigh Masher has never been so cool as when he took out the Anti-Sun using the Ultimate Popcorn Ray at the heart of the Septiverse.

Happy reading!

**Koltreg** · (This post was last modified: 08-19-2011 10:00 AM by Koltreg.)

(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote: As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

as a girl reader, 1967's Happy In The Obelisk Kitchen is probably good, 70% cookbook, 30% guide to serving parties. No violence. Teaches you to serve your man with some fun cheesecake pictures by Fredward Jasks.

jason1749 · 08-19-2011, 10:14 AM

(08-19-2011 09:00 AM)Essa Dee Wrote: As a female reader who is still new to comics, what trades or storylines would be good introductions to these characters? This all seems really overwhelming.

You can check out Ladybits McIntyre by Francois Sutton. While it starts out as a fairly sexist private eye comic, but it makes a sudden and jarring shift into radical feminism after the writer/artist's sex change. To this day, no one is quite sure what Mr./Ms. Sutton's original sex was/is.