My two cents on 50 Girls 50 #1

Aboard the starship ESS Savannah, mankind has gathered fifty of the best and brightest women for a five-year space exploration mission. That ship and her crew are due to return to Earth today, but there’s a problem with their ship’s trajectory. So begins the silly but fun space-opera that is 50 Girls 50.

In the future mankind has discovered how to travel through wormholes, the problem though is men can't do it because of their biological makeup. So the job of exploration falls to the opposite sex and the intrepid crew of the ESS Savannah. With this silly little setup we’re introduced to our main characters and their misadventures.

Despite the first reaction most people might get when perusing the art in 50 Girls 50, the story is actually quite solid. Doug Murray and Frank Cho seem to find a way to balance serious storytelling, character development and a fully realized misogynistic fantasy into an issue that overall makes weird but honest sense.

Overall the art in each panel feels like an idealistic image mixed with a whim of fantasy. Axel Medellin uses his art to serve the identity of the comic well as it struggles be both a full fledge space opera and a 13-year-old boy’s cheap fantasy.

Overall the issue was a good read, and comes recommended. Can’t wait to see what they do with issue 2.