Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of "Bad Girl" Comics

Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the “bad girl” comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely dressed and improbably proportioned action heroines for an audience of adolescent boys. While not in any way attempting to rehabilitate the genre, which for the most part amply deserved its reputation as sexist and borderline pornographic, this book situates it within its original cultural conte...