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November 5, 2015 11:09 AM

In 1984, the comic book Evangeline's first issue was released, featuring the eponymous killer sexy secret-agent nun... in spaaace! #1: Guns of Mars. #2: Hate Boat. #3 Dinosaur Farm. Bonus Theme Song! Evangeline by Matthew Sweet.
posted by ennui.bz (11 comments total)

That is a sweet, sweet A-wing/snowspeeder rip-off in issue 3. So 80's. Feels like a Traveller comic... how did I not buy this back then?
posted by GuyZero at 11:20 AM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

I remember the mopey wannabe boyfriend in the (iirc) First or Comico second series: "how can I compete with God"...
posted by MartinWisse at 12:10 PM on November 5, 2015

(DAMMIT. A week ago I was roughing out an FPP on this in my head, as I drove home from my son's guitar lesson with that CD blaring in the car stereo. *shakes fist at ennui.bz*)
posted by wenestvedt at 12:15 PM on November 5, 2015

Around the same time as this book started, another series -- "Grendel," by Matt Wagner -- started. Its first dozen issues also centered on a violent, female protagonist, though Grendel was driven by revenge and not missionary zeal. (Later issues passed the protagonist's masked identity onto other, male characters.)

There were some great stories, well-told, in those years as the Great Comics Glut started.
posted by wenestvedt at 12:21 PM on November 5, 2015

the decline of Catholic education in the US will make this sort of thing increasingly inexplicable...

(DAMMIT. A week ago I was roughing out an FPP on this in my head, as I drove home from my son's guitar lesson with that CD blaring in the car stereo. *shakes fist at ennui.bz*)

my sister found a copy of 'Hate Boat' at the local *ahem* Salvation Army and gave it to me... coincidence?
posted by ennui.bz at 12:36 PM on November 5, 2015

I've never seen this before. Many thanks!
One little quibble in the story...Sallytown? Going by the sign, it should be called Valentinatown. The cold war was still a thing back then, though, so...
posted by Thorzdad at 1:06 PM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

Its first dozen issues also centered on a violent, female protagonist,

That was the colour series; the original story in Comico Primer starred Hunter Rose.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:51 PM on November 5, 2015 [2 favorites]

Right; Hunter Rose also appeared in a back-up feature in Matt Wagner's Mage (in a revision of the Comico Primer story). When the ongoing Grendel book launched, it featured Christine Spar, the granddaughter (by adoption) of Hunter Rose.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:24 PM on November 5, 2015 [2 favorites]

Also, it's worth mentioning WRT the FPP subject that Evangeline was one of the first published works of veteran comics writer (and latter-day archconservative) Chuck Dixon.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:27 PM on November 5, 2015

(And if anyone wants my Grendel & Mage books -- bagged & boarded, natch -- drop me a PM and we can talk.)
posted by wenestvedt at 6:20 AM on November 6, 2015

Good story, pretty good art…but why so much fire in the vacuum of space?
posted by wenestvedt at 6:27 AM on November 6, 2015