 Josie Shuler is a perfect homemaker, wife, and mother, but she's also a ruthless, efficient killer. She balances cheerful domestic bliss with coldly-performed assassinations, but when Josie finds herself in the crosshairs, her American dream life is in danger. Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode, another edition of a week in Geek Dim here on YouTube. This time we're talking Lady Killer from Dark Horse Volume 1. This is a wholesome, action-packed thriller that is light on its feet, but it's really good when it counts. Lady Killer, she's this trained assassin, but she poses as a regular 60s housewife with family and everything, whom she really does appreciate and love and all that stuff. It's genuine. And she makes a living being an assassin, and she doesn't mix the two professions into one until this case comes along where her superiors are asking, you know, can she really perform all these great things without wanting that simple housewife life getting in the way? And that is sort of the main conflict of this book. Of course, it's typical with stories like this. The hit goes wrong and they send people after her and all that stuff. It's nothing new. It's nothing that we've never seen, but where the series succeeds is in its humor, in its imagery, and the fantastic art. Combining the artistry of Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, you get something really vibrant, dynamic. It's snappy. It's quick. It's a very light read, and it reads more like a storyboard action piece. Like, this would be something I would see in cinemas made by, let's say, Edgar Wright with Tarantino-esque flair, stuff like that, where the humor is in the actions that these characters are taking and doing. Of course, mirroring the era of the early 60s with that wholesome family image and that propaganda of, you know, the wife needs everything at home so she can raise the kids and stuff, and like she can't do this or that. But the series has fun with that and Joelle is able to craft a really interesting story with great fun characters. Again, it's nothing over the top and spectacular, but where it does count, it does a really good job at it, especially when it comes to the action scenes which are really vivid, dynamic, fun to look at, just really awesome stuff. Just the idea of this trained assassin posing as this housewife and mother and then on the sideline she's killing people left and right. What's not to love, right? If you want to have a fun time, of course, with the little PSA here, if you don't mind getting a little bit gratuitous with your violence and your blood splatter and graphic imagery, then you're gonna have a fun time. If that's not your thing, then maybe you don't want to read Lady Killer. I don't know, I'll leave that up to you. What's really cool, and I haven't read volume two, so I do know that the story escalates further, but what was really cool about this volume is the fact that it plays sort of into that whole espionage paranoia era of the late 50s, early 60s, that time frame, which is really good for any movie or story because it was a time of transition and change from a previous lifestyle into what has evolved into our lifestyle, if that makes any sense. Like I mentioned, the art is probably one of the biggest selling points here because the story, like I mentioned, is a little bit redundant. It's a little cliched if you're into this sort of genre, but the art in it is just beautiful, spectacular. Look at this, you get some more of that. You know, the art in this book is pretty fun, it's sensual and sexy, and plays with the tropes pretty well. It knows what it's doing in the way that it represents female empowerment with a male German society from the 60s, and I think Joelle does a rich job of highlighting our main protagonist and how different she is from the rest of the culture and the characters and all that stuff. I thought it was pretty cool. So yeah, it's stuff like this. It's violence like that, which is tastefully done, might I add. Yes, it is a little bit gross and grotesque, but it's stylish, just like the rest of the series. And Joelle really did her research, same with Jamie, and they pulled off a rich looking world that straight up looks like it came out of the early 60s. Ad is really commendable and one of the strongest suits when it comes to Lady Killer, in my opinion. So again, if you want to have a fun time with some action packed story about this kickass assassin doing her thing and just being a badass overall, then yeah, look into Lady Killer Volume 1. I highly recommend it if you want to have some fun. 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