Naked … except for woad, naturally … is obviously rather disconcerting — it suggests that the madman rushing towards you … if he isn’t simply insane … must be a particularly ferocious warrior (if he weren’t then his approach would long since have seen him dead).

But that kind of thing was never my kind of thing anyway.

Never really into Marvel/DC or anything of that ilk — Batman was about as close as I could stomach of the grimly predictable and sacharine sweet premises and resultant plots.

When I was a little kid, I was into Action comic — until my parents found out how violent it was and put a stop to it <sigh>

Although I bought the first few issues, I never really got into 2000 AD though — too wordy, not enough violence (not compared to Action).

Later I was into Tank Girl, Transmetropolitan, Preacher, The Pro, Deadline, Toxic! … that kind of thing — in Toxic! my favourite strips were Accident Man, The Driver, Marshall Law, Detritus Rex, Rollerbeast and Psycho Killer (oh … and Nancy The Nice Fairy, of course).

Add Bob the Angry Flower and Viz (back in its heydey of the very early ‘90s).

In the mid 2000s I kinda got into The Exterminators and The Invisibles, but Life conspired to take me in other directions after a while and I lost track of what was going on, so I just stopped.

So, the whole scantily clad chicks with swords was never really gonna appeal to me any more than was Conan.

Which, I guess, is why … despite it being biker chick in leathers .. Sex Warrior didn’t appeal; it was a tired idea really … should’ve been aborted before gestating long enough to be stillborn — a bit of a miscarriage all around.