Mail Call For 10.7.25
This Mail Call is also a Short Box. A Mail Short? A Short Call? Something like that…
Anyway, when I ordered this a while back, I wasn’t certain if I was going to manage to pick up the final issue from the comic shop – and then when I could, I wasn’t sure if I should, but ultimately, I did – so I also ordered that, and it arrived today.
Andrew Taruscov Homage Variant
And since I have it, I thought I might as well do a Short Box about the series in its entirety.
Creators
| Writer | Andrew Tarusov, Brendan Jones |
| Artist | Andrew Tarusov, Igor Vyunyshev |
| Cover Artist | Ryan Pasibe, Andrew Taruscov |
This was a book I initially picked up on a whim as a fan of cheesecake and pin-up art. I never properly added it to my pull list, so I ended up missing an issue, which is what led to the Mail Call for the previous issue and the ordering of this issue.
In any case, Pinupocalypse was a fun little series that as a high-concept could be described as “Pleasantville – albeit a slightly racier version – meets zombie apocalypse.”
When the small town of Pinupolis, which has a 1950s pin-up aesthetic where stocking-clad long-legged ladies sashay sexily – in an innocent, saucy-but-not-too-saucy sort of way – past picket fences is besieged by zombies, good girl Foxy and bad girl Roxy must team up to not only survive the ravenous hordes but also find a way to stop the alien force behind it all.
It’s hardly the birthday that Foxy anticipated, but she gets more than she bargained for as she learns that maybe Roxy – who is just as glamourous as Foxy in her own Rockabilly way – isn’t so bad after all, and that maybe there is more to life than pretty dresses and boys.
Because what boy could ever compare to Roxy?
The story is slight, but like I said, it’s fun, and the art suits the tone, being just salacious enough to add some spice, and capturing the idealized look of an idyllic little town.
It would be fun to see the story adapted as a movie, either animated or in live action. The tongue-in-cheek tone reminds me of a series of original movies Showtime aired back in the mid-90s that were intended as an homage to campy, schlocky low-budget exploitation films from decades earlier.
I know there were at least a few made, but the only one I remember was called Girls in Prison, which was about…well, it’s right there in the title.
In any case, that’s very much the vibe Pinupocalypse shoots for, and overall, it delivers.
Born and raised in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jon Maki developed an enduring love for comics at an early age.
