Publisher: Tidal Wave Productions
Writer: C. W. Cooke
Artist: Scott J. Larson
Colourist: Thyago Brandao
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

If the title Victoria’s Secret Service: Russian Roulette #1 was any more tongue in cheek, C. W. Cooke and Scott J. Larson would be unable to speak for laughing! Victoria’s Secret Service: Russian Roulette #1is the first of a four-issue series which moves the story on from the VSS’s debut.

For those who don’t know, Victoria’s Secret Service were a secret group of ladies in waiting created to protect Queen Victoria at all costs, hence the name, geddit? Despite its nineteenth century origins, Victoria’s Secret Service: Russian Roulette #1is set in the modern day and features Lark, Raven, Scarlet and Brooke as Victoria’s latest agents.

In Victoria’s Secret Service: Russian Roulette #1, one of their own, Katya, who made the rookie mistake of going on a deadly mission in a red evening dress and high heels (and we’ve all been there), ends up being kidnapped behind enemy lines when her dress gets snagged on some barbed wire. Could have happened to anyone, right?

Anyway, in Victoria’s Secret Service: Russian Roulette #1, the girls have to go undiecover – sorry, that should be undercover – to save Katya after undergoing a gruelling weapons and unarmed combat training session at HQ dressed in their jim-jams because it interrupted their slumber party. Screams of girlish delight greet the distribution of elaborate and unlikely weapons as Victoria’s Secret Service: Russian Roulette #1combines Charlie’s Angels and the worst of the Roger Moore Bond movies to achieve a level of kitsch that is practically toxic.

And if you like your kitsch off the scale, well, look no further than here!

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker