Femforce #126/$6.95 & 38 pgs. from AC Comics/various writers and artists/available at comics shops and www.accomics.com.

Femforce is a great big delicious bag of eye candy for men. It is chock-full of beautiful women in skimpy uniforms who fight with fists and/or superhuman powers against bad people in uniforms.

Don't get me wrong, Buckwheat. There is nothing wrong with eye candy. One can't eat steak at every meal. Femforce is not a great big bag of philosophy, religion, politics, societal issues or even characterization. Femforce is about beautiful women and adventure.

Many of the characters and stories will remind you of superheroes from the '30s, '40s and '50s. The likeness is intentional.

If those things are your 'bag' (a now obscure '60s term meaning 'something you like') and you prefer plot and pretty over profundity, this action-packed issue offers the antics of Femforce (a team of superwomen), She-Cat, and Colt.

The art on each is better-than-average super-heroine fare with lots of hitting and jumping around and close-ups of female body parts ('the kind men like') that titillate but never cross the line into lurid. My favorite artist of the bunch is Don Secrease.

The writing is more than serviceable with the self-conscious dialog that characterized comic books in their infancy. But you won't know the names of half the characters or much about their histories, which makes it difficult for new readers to join the fun. This is an editorial oversight that could be easily remedied by publishing a summary of these things at the beginning of each issue or each story, and with more careful writing.

But why bother since Femforce is eye candy?

Well, bucko, if you ever want to do more than just ogle a beautiful woman, you will eventually need to know something about her. Women are like that. Femforce is recommended for simple, straightforward entertainment and for fans of comics from the '40s and 50s.
MV

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