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On the Jenna Jameson comic, I worked with Tanya Danielle and some company had made a comic with her as the heroine. Comic didn't sell and she got stuck with boxes of the thing in exchange for getting paid.
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Looks like the soul of Rob Liefeld...


...hrhngngnnngnhhh still burns...
That reference reminds me of “Brigade” and other Liefeld comics. He had potential but just couldn’t draw feet for some reason. Random memory.
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The protagonist is Jezzerie Jaden, an orphan who makes a living on the streets of her city, but with the heavy burden of hiding something in her past that she cannot remember.
Holy crap! I had no idea any such thing existed. I would've bought the shit out of that.
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The protagonist is Jezzerie Jaden, an orphan who makes a living on the streets of her city, but with the heavy burden of hiding something in her past that she cannot remember.
Hey Argento - Cool post! Never knew Jenna Jameson had a comic. If it's on Virgin Comics, though, it's probably from the period of around 2007-2009 when Branson and Chopra were going full steam (and they hired a young Sana Amanat as assistant editor, fresh out of Columbia or wherever). That company collapsed soon after, and re-grouped as Graphic India (who aren't really doing anything in the States).

But here are two fantastic Indian heroines from the Virgin Comics roster around that same time. The saga of the beautiful Devi helped inspire me to create two superpowered South Asian characters (Arogya the Healer and Kaliyuga the Destroyer), while the horror-based Snake Woman comic gave me some good ideas for my supervillainess Serpenta (along with the aforementioned Witchblade inspiration). And speaking of Witchblade, there was a crossover between her and Devi - how incredibly sexy is that?

Devi was around long enough to get her own Wikipedia page. Her costume is one of the best designs I've ever seen - you can tell that the Indian creator (Shekhar Kapur) was into tight black leather catsuits but added special cultural flair for the 'goddess' touch.
It'd be great if someone would revive the character!
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On the Jenna Jameson comic, I worked with Tanya Danielle and some company had made a comic with her as the heroine. Comic didn't sell and she got stuck with boxes of the thing in exchange for getting paid.
There are so many porn stars, bombshell starlets, and sexy cosplayers who have made their own character comic book, that could really just be a separate thread in itself. :cool2:

A couple years ago, I remember seeing a comic book of a British porn star who lives in the US and made a handful of great SHIP movies, but I can't remember her name right now...I think the costume was pink? I'm sure someone else here can recall it.

As far as Tanya Danielle, she's still only in her mid-40s and churning out superheroine clips on C4S. I don't know where the company was planning to 'sell' her comics (through Diamond?) but if she has a mountain of boxes of them, she could make good money by selling them at Cons both inside and outside her immediate area (Bay Area?) and charging a bit for autographs.
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she could make good money by selling them at Cons both inside and outside her immediate area (Bay Area?) and charging a bit for autographs.
She did when SHC had a booth at comicon. We had her as a booth babe and I remember carrying all those boxes to the table from her car. They didn't sell much. I don't recall one copy sold. On a side note, one of the things I found cringy was when little girls wanted to take pictures with Tanya cause she was in costume and the dads were glad to take pics. We all knew this was adult stuff and so I felt uneasy having kids think this was something normal. We used to beg comicon to have an adult area. I always cringed when kids went past our table.
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argento wrote:
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The protagonist is Jezzerie Jaden, an orphan who makes a living on the streets of her city, but with the heavy burden of hiding something in her past that she cannot remember.
Hey Argento - Cool post! Never knew Jenna Jameson had a comic. If it's on Virgin Comics, though, it's probably from the period of around 2007-2009 when Branson and Chopra were going full steam (and they hired a young Sana Amanat as assistant editor, fresh out of Columbia or wherever). That company collapsed soon after, and re-grouped as Graphic India (who aren't really doing anything in the States).

But here are two fantastic Indian heroines from the Virgin Comics roster around that same time. The saga of the beautiful Devi helped inspire me to create two superpowered South Asian characters (Arogya the Healer and Kaliyuga the Destroyer), while the horror-based Snake Woman comic gave me some good ideas for my supervillainess Serpenta (along with the aforementioned Witchblade inspiration). And speaking of Witchblade, there was a crossover between her and Devi - how incredibly sexy is that?

Devi was around long enough to get her own Wikipedia page. Her costume is one of the best designs I've ever seen - you can tell that the Indian creator (Shekhar Kapur) was into tight black leather catsuits but added special cultural flair for the 'goddess' touch.
It'd be great if someone would revive the character!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi_(Virgin_Comics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Woman_(comics)

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Hi Shevek. I found it by chance, looking for porn stars as heroines. I do it to shape the models I make. I made many models inspired by celebrities, models and porn stars. Now I'm doing Sasha Gray as X-23. The two heroines you posted are great. There are so many heroines that it seems infinite. Here you have Sasha
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Mr. X wrote:
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On a side note, one of the things I found cringy was when little girls wanted to take pictures with Tanya cause she was in costume and the dads were glad to take pics. We all knew this was adult stuff and so I felt uneasy having kids think this was something normal. We used to beg comicon to have an adult area. I always cringed when kids went past our table.
Huh. An aspect of the convention experience I'd never thought of before. I completely understand your reaction.
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Mr. X wrote:
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On a side note, one of the things I found cringy was when little girls wanted to take pictures with Tanya cause she was in costume and the dads were glad to take pics. We all knew this was adult stuff and so I felt uneasy having kids think this was something normal. We used to beg comicon to have an adult area. I always cringed when kids went past our table.
I know what you mean. That's one of several reasons we keep all our content PG-13, so we can legitimately say that everything we do (both videos and comics) are fine for teens and up. If anyone asks up front who it's appropriate for, that's what we emphasize. Then if the adult feels like getting a comic for someone slightly younger and precocious, that's totally up to them (and it has happened multiple times). Never had anyone complain about inappropriateness - just a handful of Internet and email criticisms over five years from the extreme right (too woke!) and the extreme left (too problematic!). That's about it.

Back to the new heroines! I don't know if people remember from 2018 when Martina Markota launched her comic, Lady Alchemy
on Indiegogo. She had lots of setbacks, from her artist launching a lawsuit against her for the use of her own likeness, to the relentless assault from the Twitter mob because she is right-of-center. She was very behind on the comic production, and eventually the Indiegogo campaign was suspended even though it had raised a good amount of money. Now, the campaign is back and she's in the site's In Demand "store" mode, getting close to finishing with only a dozen pages left to color.

The new superheroine in the book is LADY ALCHEMY herself, a comic book superpowered version of Martina Markota's performance art act (for which she has a separate Youtube channel, just search under "Lady Alchemy"). The character is immersed in the New York City art world, and delves into a realm of esoteric occult magic and summoning of angels. The art by the new artist she brought on board, Alberta Canada's Dario Carrasco, is fantastic. And Lady Alchemy herself (as well as Martina in real life) is very sexy.

Back the campaign if you like the aesthetics!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lady ... ic-novel#/
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Another great new heroine....

Many comics fans are aware of writer and artist Karl Kesel (along with his ex-wife, writer Barbara Kesel) who is responsible for many great comics since the 1980s. (Superman, Superboy, Harley Quinn, Spider-man, Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four, Captain America)
One of my favorite series is their run on Hawk and Dove (after Dove became the female version, Dawn Granger).

Starting in 2019, Kesel began pushing his own original creations on Kickstarter - an original heroine called Impossible Jones, who has powers somewhat similar to Plastic Man and Kamala Khan. The premise behind Impossible Jones is that she is a thief who gets those incredible powers (she is also bulletproof) and, since she is mistaken for a superheroine, she just decides to go with it to get good publicity from the media. I would say that ultimately she is a likeable anti-heroine for the way she balances superheroic deeds with a certain amount of self-gratification (that is, if she can get away with criminal activity, she'll do it). In other words, she has "situational" ethics.

Also in the comics is a whole universe of kooky and interesting superhero and supervillain characters which Karl Kesel created for this world, such as Holly Daze (his take on Harley Quinn, but she always commits Christmas-themed crimes), The Polecat, and Even Steven. This comic has a bit of the feel of The Tick, or the classic Batman animated adventures, or some of the works of Conner/Palmiotti (Harley Quinn, Power Girl etc).

Is Impossible Jones sexy? Well, she could be. Her face can be drawn cute, her bodysuit is tight, and her thigh-high boots are hot. The shapeliness is tamped down in most of the artwork, but in the back of the graphic novel that I received from Kesel's crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter ("Grin and Gritty Vol. 1"), there are variants drawn by some art giants of the comic industry (Gian Carlo Bernal, Aaron Lopresti, even Terry Dodson of Strangers in Paradise) which show that Impy's appearance *can* be represented with some definite sex appeal. Impossible Jones' design is right at the nexus of what is currently going through the industry: the need to never be seen as "incorrect" on a social issue, balancing delicately against what actually sells comics (which as Ya Boi Zack says, "...is a visual medium"). And I'm sure that Kesel wanted to sell Impossible Jones on the basis of the character's entire appeal, not just one aspect. It may have the potential to become a cartoon.

Impossible Jones originally came out self-published as a TPB on Kesel's Panic Button Press, but it's now being converted back to single issue floppies by rising indie Scout Comics...so you can definitely find Impossible Jones #1 right now in your better comic book shops. The comic is suitable for all ages, and the best thing is that if you get the single issues, you don't have to endure the useless preface by Gail Simone which was in the trade!
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