Nice day, for an AK

[Floyd-the-k]

You probably all know about this already, but I read yet another story about AK comics last night and looked up their website the other day.
  On the one hand; hooray for Middle Eastern comics, on the other hand it looks very Marvel/DC ripoffs (although the article I read cited 2000 AD as an influence).  THe titles with female heroines can't be sold in Saudi Arabia due to a ban on the depiction of women with breasts the size of basketballs.

has anyone read any of these? What do you think?

Link: http://www.akcomics.com/previews.htm" target="_blank">A plutonium sphere....

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[GordonR]

I like their slick marketing copy:


"an economic B&W edition that sells for only 1 L.E (15 cents), to ensure penetration across all socio-economic classes."

[johnnystress]

"nice day for an AK" would be a better title than for  the current "Piss off" thread in the Off- topic section! The kind of killer line you'd deliver just before you open fire on everyone in front of you in the queue...http://www.nvkz.kuzbass.net/cstrike/img/AK-47.jpg">

[Dudley]

Gordon -

It's time to pitch Judge Jihad, surely?

Link: http://www.akcomics.com/submissions.htm" target="_blank">Submissions welcome.

[LARF]

I was thinking along the same lines:

Strontium Sphinx anyone?

[longmanshort]

... featuring Aya, the Princess of Darkness, who has been cursed to never, ever be able to close her mouth ...

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[Satanist]

Thats cos shes doing that "Aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai" thing with her tongue that all middle eastern people do in hollywood movies, usually before shouting Alah Akbar and firing a rifle in the air.

[Thursday]

"...who has been cursed to never, ever be able to close her mouth ..."

It's all tied into her origin story: she was an investigative reporter who was brutally murdered to protect the interests of a corrupt government department, but the gods took pity and saved her by placing her soul in the nearest humanoid vessel, which turned out to be an inflatable sex doll*.









*Not really.  But it would explain a lot about her anatomy.

[Conexus]

Oi! Lms- you cheating cheater! You with held evidence to make a crap joke- well that's cheap!

On the first two issues Aya's mouth is most definately closed

[Carlsborg Expert]

Mouth closed, does not a sold comic make.

Obviously!

[Dark Jimbo]

Saudi Arabia has a ban on the depiction of women with breasts the size of basketballs?

Thank GOD we live in the more enlightened UK. I don't think I could bear that. :)