Wednesday 13 January 2016

Domino Lady's Threesome

While I wait for Moonstone's Return Of The Black Bat to arrive (tomorrow!), I shall shine my small spotlight onto another Moonstone project scheduled to be available in May because the primary character is one that has been teamed with The Black Bat on a number of occasions in recent years, and will be again.
DOMINO LADY THREESOME #1
Story: Nancy Holder, Bobby Nash
Art: Marco Santiago
Cover: Glen Fernandez 
Trouble Times Three! It’s Coast to Coast action, adventure, romance, and intrigue as Pulp’s #1 Adventuress, Domino Lady teams up with the Golden Amazon and The Veil to thwart a killer, stop a nefarious Nazi plot, and uncover mysterious happenings on big Hollywood movie set. When just one hero isn’t enough, Domino Lady and her companions come together to get the job done.

A little guesswork is required here. The name of the series seemed familiar and it should. Moonstone released a title by that very name in 2012. Solicitation below:
A Return of the Originals Event!  
Story: Nancy Holder, Bobby Nash
Art: Marco Santiago
Cover: Glen Fernandez
When young women vanish at a sleazy burlesque club, three beautiful heroines slip undercover and out of their clothes to investigate - and wind up confronting a kidnapper who just might be out of this world. 
Featuring the delicious Domino Lady, the first appearance of the deadly Golden Amazon in 70 years and introducing the voluptuous new pulp crime-fighter, The Veil!
Return Of The Originals was an ambitious project through which Moonstone had planned several ongoing and limited series featuring pulp characters. Most of the material was never released and/or projects were aborted. The Black Bat himself is a good example; his "ongoing" series consisted of a graphic novel shared with a character named Death Angel.

I suspect that the upcoming Threesome is a rework of sorts of the one published in 2012. The latter was probably intended to run longer than the single issue which was released.

It feels as though Moonstone has a quiet relaunch and reorganization of its comics line going on.  We know Guns of The Black Bat is on the way in April (though the second issue is not solicited in May) and that it will also include, at least short term, Domino Lady and The Golden Amazon among others. The Black Bat featured in that book seems to be far more faithful to the original than Moonstone's first attempt.

I'm curious to know whether this will be a "structured universe" where events in one book are recognized in another.  I doubt it, but we'll need to wait until the spring to find out.

2 comments:

  1. Hi. Thanks for spotlighting the upcoming Domino Lady Threesome launch. This is a new series of team-ups with Domino Lady and 2 other pulp heroes. The first 2 issues, written by Nancy Holder and me) are a sequel to the original one-shot. With issue 3, I take over the solo writing reins. We will have several stand-alone issues with DL and friends in action. I'm hoping the readers enjoy it.

    Bobby
    www.bobbynash.com

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    1. Sounds like a blast, thank you for clarifying!

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