BOOM! Studios Cover Girl, slaps the taste out of Hollywood’s mouth. Straight out of Beantown — Kevin Church’s scripting is right-on-time and he’s definitely leaving his mark on the Comics industry. He tag-teams with Andrew Crosby’s plotline, and the pencils by Mateus Santolouco really solidifies the whole Hollywood cinematic flavor of the Comic (and don’t sleep on those covers by Albuquerque).

Cover Girl revolves around struggling actor Alex Martin who crash-lands into the limelight after heroically trying to save a car accident victim — that he just ran off the road a few seconds earlier! The pace of the story goes from zero-to-sixty pretty quickly as Alex bursts into superstardom and begins to make his rounds as the bonifide man to watch. It doesn’t take long for Alex to get a taste of the action and finds out the grass may be greener on the other side of the tracks.

After the incident, Martin’s manager contracts some muscle to handle protection — enter Rachel Dodd. Make no mistake, this lady is the forreal meal deal. Crosby may have created Cover Girl, but Church is the one bringing the heat with a stage comedians timing. The dialog-play between Rachel and Alex is classic. Half the time, I don’t know whether to laugh our punch Martin straight in his mouth! You have to wonder, how much of Alex Martin’s character is Church personified. Given what I’ve seen from his scripting so far, BOOM! may have a winner with Church scripting the action, especially when it’s time to push this as a TPB.

The artistic tone of Cover Girl is near-perfect thanks to Santolouco laying down some solid pencils to visually beef up the Hollywood shuffle of the Comic. I dig his art style a lot. A serious mix of Next-Wave Immonen, Hamner, and a subtle taste of Oeming. There isn’t a whole lot going down in the background of the panels, but, there is enough happening in the foreground to make you happily dismiss it. I can also appreciate the fact that even though this is Hollywood, the colors don’t scream Vice City.

I’m definitely looking forward to how this plays out and recommend that you get down with Cover Girl immediately. Don’t wait for the trade. I’d rate this as all-audiences-enjoyable. Hit up your local Comics shop and ask them to keep this in heavy rotation on the shelves. Bahlactus has spoken.

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