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Fashion Police
Distributed by: Bryce Alan Publishing
Created and Written By: Bruce Alan Penn
Genre: Campy Adventure
Price: $2.95
Rating: Parental Guidance Advised
By: Justine Manzano
The 
marketing plan was a stroke of sheer genius! Get four gorgeous models together and get a company going. That company will be built around them. The main source of money for this company will be a comic book, which will then be followed by art stills of the girls, and a whole bevy of goods based around this product which was bound to be a sure-fire success. Then, go to conventions with your four models and make an impression. This way, in meeting the main characters of the comic book, readers would feel drawn to it. Altogether, this sounds like a great plan. There was only one thing missing…the comic book needed a plot.
In a world where crimes against fashion are truly crimes, Antonia Colon, Cleopatra Styles, Sydney Powers, and Mika are The Fashion Police, doing their best to keep bad fashion from happening to good people. Unfortunately a bad thing has already happened to one good person…me! I read THIS comic book! Right now, I can't find anything much worse than that.
A myriad of problems taint this comic book. First and foremost the main problem with the Fashion Police series was the lack of a plot. The story was impossible to follow; it was choppy to say the least and the characters don't have much personality and everything we know about them, we are told, but not shown. The characters seem to have barely any contact with each other, and the story is focused around a case I can't even begin to understand. I found myself completely unable to figure out what each character was doing to solve the case, although they all see to be helping out in some way.
On the plus side, the art is gorgeous and the characters have a distinctive look. The book is filled with fashion puns that made me giggle, although I would've giggled a lot more if they were built around some basic story structure. Overall, I think this is pretty much the lowest of the low. Comics made for the sake of their creators and not for their fans, and that's something I just don't think is fair. Please your audience-make some money; that's all that has to be done.
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