Victor Gischler decided to make the femme fatales clowns and the end result looks like the elephant cage after lights out.
The first issue of “Clown Fatale†is about four female clowns who one day are mistaken for assassins and are given a job to kill the person who is supplying them with drugs.
That’s the entire comic in a nutshell. Add in the unnecessary nudity, R-rated swearing and bad attitudes and this is what you get. Then there’s the usual line of characters: the straight man/woman, the reformed prostitute, the foxy black character, the silent Asian who’s weird beyond anything and the villain who looks like he never left the fifties.
After the math is done this is the typical shlock “Charlie’s Angels†story with very little substance.
Besides Chloe (the straight man) the characters are as shallow and unlikeable as other characters that plague the genre. From the line with the reformed prostitute offering service to the black girl talking in Ebonics these characters just scream very little effort was put into them.
The story itself is the tired story of mistaken identity with characters that only do the dastardly deed because the pay is better than their dead end jobs and they have nothing to lose. It’s pretty easy to tell what will happen in the story next with the reader not caring for what’ll happen next. Connect the dots and let the femme fatales take over is the name of the game.
The art by Maurizio Rosenzweig is decent enough. The character designs look OK, the breasts look real which is a plus and the character movements look smooth. The colors at least fit with the atmosphere of the story. On the other hand the facial expressions look really ugly and boring and nothing in the background stands out.
“Clown Fatale†is the typical bottom of the barrel shlockfest with a “Charlie’s Angels†theme. It’s not even good shlock that makes the reader laugh at how bad it is or have any kind of fun with it.
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