WTComics WeView Review – Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle #6
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- Price: $3.99
- Rating: T+
- Pages: 32
- On Sale: February 14, 2018
- Writer: Marguerite Bennett / Christina Trujillo
- Artist: M.L. Sanapo
- Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
From the publisher – The start of a bold new adventure! Mother Forest is beset by a terrible plague that sickens the very jungle, but this deadly evil is not the only danger Sheena must face. A ruthless huntress prowls the forest, seeking a girl with golden hair, and the mark of the jaguar…
Our We Talk Comics WeView – After closing the abyss doors in issues #1-#5, the Amazon (aka Mother Forest) was thought to be protected from monsters named the Face Stealers. However, Sheena and her animal friends Yagua and Chim find that the forest is showing signs of a mysterious rot. The Chieftainess of the tribe surmises that a malicious Huntress is poisoning the forest in an attempt to draw out a person matching Sheena’s description. Now filled with guilt for the forest sickness, Sheen takes her friend Lirio, a herbalist healer, into the forest to further diagnosis the plant based illness while also aware they may encounter the marauding Huntress. All the while, a friendly hovering drone from the outside world watches from above.
Keeping true to a long history of campy imagery throughout the decades, this newest incarnation is Sheena should feel familiar to her fans or casual observers. The art of Maria Sanapo maintains a cultivated image of Sheena that accentuates her voluptuous curves, devastating cleavage, perfect lipstick, and hair that is miraculously protected from the rain forest humidity. Colorist Ceci De La Cruz sure had a demanding duty to make everything on Sheena…pop. In fact, every beautiful character in this issue is given pin-up quality poses with quipping dialogue reminiscent of Spiderman thanks to writers Marguerite Bennet and Christina Trujillo who are tasked with this new story arch.
Sheena has always employed a form of feminism that celebrates the female form along with a characterization that smashes all constraints as depicted so gloriously in the cover art. Damsel in distress? Yes, but in a revealing dress that is perfect for fighting male archetypes.
Sheena is still meant to be fun in a make believe version of the Amazon where daily survival is nothing to sneeze at – even more so than the real Amazon! So, we should be thankful her beauty defeats the odds against her in every Dynamite issue and they gives us multiple sexy variant covers for our consideration.
Rating: Fine/Very Fine (FN/VF) or 7.0/10
Review by DJ Rat Bastard