Just Read: The Trouble With Girls, Vol. 2

To keep the title from getting ridiculously long, I dropped the credits down to here: this was written by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones, pencilled by Tim Hamilton and mostly inked by Dave Garcia, just like the first volume.

I read Checker's Vol. 1 a few weeks ago, and explained the background in excruciating detail then (so I won't repeat myself). This book reprints issues 8-14 of the original Eternity series from 1988, in which Lester Girls battles enemies, romances gorgeous women, and searches for the truth about his past. It's still as much fun as the first volume, for those who aren't offended by the whole idea to begin with.

The cover design is awfully low-rent, though; I'm not sure if it implies that Tim Hamilton has completely fallen off the face of the earth (and couldn't be found to do a new cover), or that this project had such a low budget that all they could afford was a quick cut-and-paste job with bits of the original art. (Tending to argue for the latter: none of the original covers are included in this book, even in black-and-white versions.) I guess if everything from the '80s is going to be reprinted -- and we seem to be heading in that direction; I'm expecting the big Boris the Bear Archives and a deluxe Pre-Teen Dirty Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos hardcover any day now -- they're not all going to get the nice deluxe treatment. This is still OK -- the printing is clear and the binding is solid -- though those fancy extras would have been nice.