The Trouble with Girls (comics)

The Trouble with Girls
The cover of The Trouble with Girls trade paperback, published in 2006 by Checker Book Publishing Group.
Publication information
Publisher	Eternity Comics/Malibu Comics, 1987–1988, 1989–1991 Comico, 1989 Epic Comics, 1993 Devil's Due Digital, 2010
Publication date(s)	August 1987 - 1993
No. of issues	39
Creative team
Created by	Will Jacobs Gerard Jones
Written by	Will Jacobs Gerard Jones
Artist(s)	Tim Hamilton Dave Garcia Chuck Austen Bret Blevins Al Williamson
Collected editions
The Trouble with Girls: Volume 1	ISBN

The Trouble with Girls is an American comic book published serially from 1987–1993 by Malibu Comics/Eternity Comics, Comico, and Epic Comics. It was written by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones, and drawn by Tim Hamilton and others.

The Trouble with Girls is a satirical action series starring Lester Girls, who wants to be simply an "average guy" with a dead-end job, a plain wife, and no adventures more exciting than a good night's sleep. But Lester can't go for a drive without terrorists launching missiles at him, or walk into one of his many mansions without a beautiful, talented, curvaceous woman reposing half-dressed on his bed. Wealth, adventure, sexual magnetism, dashing good looks, and the savoir faire of a Hollywood action hero are what he calls "the curse of Girls."

Hamilton's clean, linear art evokes classic superhero comics. In one four-page set piece, Apache Dick, a Girls analogue who loves the high life, launches an escape that starts with pole-vaulting the Great Wall of China and ends with him crawling from the smoking wreckage of a kamikaze plane muttering only, "the bungalow."

Malibu Comics published vol. 1 (issues 1-14 and Annual 1) in 1987 and 1988, the first six issues under its "Malibu Comics" imprint, the remainder under its Eternity Comics imprint. In 1989, Comico launched vol. 2 (issues 1-4), which then returned to Malibu and the "Eternity" imprint for issues 5-23 and a Christmas Special. During vol. 2's run, Malibu also brought out related Lester Girls, Apache Dick, and Lizard Lady mini-series. In 1993, Epic Comics published a four-issue Trouble with Girls miniseries called The Trouble With Girls: Night of the Lizard, with art by Bret Blevins and Al Williamson, as well as a Lester Girls short story in its Heavy Hitters Annual.