Funniest. Comic Company Press Release. Ever!

According to this article, Jenna Jameson is set to star in a new comic book from Virgin Comics.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is comedy gold. It is funny on so many levels. Funny? Funny how? Let me count the ways:

1. Jenna Jameson, porn star, is doing a book for a comic company named Virgin. I haven't seen a creator be as an antithesis of the name of the company they worked for since Rob Liefeld started up Awesome comics.

2. It is also funny that Virgin has gone directly from B-level celebrities to create their books straight to Z-level. Sure, be the guy who used to be in the Eurythmics is pretty low, but it doesn't get much lower than a porn star who is losing her looks.

3. Read this little gem from the press release:

"The story, while provocative and sexy, contains no nudity and is intended for a mainstream audience."

Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of having a porn star write your books? I mean, when one thinks of Jenna Jameson, they don't think "top notch writer". They think of her, in the cleanest sense, as being nude. I mean, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jenna Jameson: which does not belong?

If they weren't just selling out all their morals and publishing a porn comics, they should have tried to go after Jessica Alba or Scarlett Johansson. They're hotter and and probably better writers.

4. This is how they describe the book:

"Shadow Hunter is the story of a provocative superheroine who survives a brush with death only to find herself fighting the legions of hell for her very soul."

Funny, I thought she would go with a more autobiographical route: a story of a woman who slowly finds her self turning into plastic.