Brinke Stevens, Scream Queen, actress, author, screenwriter, and model, has been the inspiration for many a photograph, drawing, and fictional character throughout her career, but did you know that she was the subject of her won comic book in the early 1990's? In fact, three separate comic books? Brinke of Eternity, followed by Brinke of Destruction, was not wildly successful, but they were traditional, female-oriented stories of strength, power, and courage. Also, they are pretty funny if you know Brinke Stevens in person. In fact, we have a picture of her wearing her comic book heroine outfit right here...
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Brinke of Eternity, written by Brinke Stevens and Brian Pulido (Pulido created the character of Lady Death and Chaos Comics), is about a woman named Brinke, and her older sister Arcana, who come from an alternate universe to vie over mankind's future. Brinke, wearing her green cat suit, is of the mind that humans deserve another chance. Arcana, the bitch, feels that humans need to be destroyed. In a battle over magic artifacts, total destruction, and gorgeous costumes, Arcana and Brinke battle it out until! Crap! You never find out the end. Which is lame because this was one book out of one. This Chaos Comics gem is hard to find, but if you scrounge around, you might be able to uncover it online, or in a comic store.
High Top comics put out Brinke of Destruction, which followed Brinke of Eternity, in 1995. Brinke, and her new co-writer, Todd A. Kaylor, decided to further the adventures of Brinke in a three-part comic entitled Brinke of Destruction. Picking up right where Brinke of Eternity left off, Destruction furthers the story by placing Brinke on earth as a powerless pawn of her alien world. With the help of a young man named Alex, she regains her powers, fights her sister Arcana, and gets attacked by monsters, strange cyborg things, and eventually saves us all from certain... Destruction.
Okay, now, after this three-parter, a third book, entitled Brinke of Disaster, was a comedic parody of what Brinke had done before. Featuring a character called The Blonde Avenger, pandemonium and fun arise when the two girls get mixed up together.
This idea was a good one. Brinke traveled around promoting her character, and she released audio books, CD-Rom versions of her adventures, and even hoped to make a movie. What went wrong? Where did Brinke the superhero go? In a time when many celebrities start their own comic books, (poorly, might I add), it's refreshing to look back to Brinke's comics and see where it all started, before the market was flooded not only with scream queens, but with new, and original, ideas.
