Space Girls (2000AD)

Space Girls was arguably one of the least popular series' ever to run in 2000AD. Created by Jason Brashill and former 2000AD editor David Bishop. Originally running from 2000AD #1062-1066, the strip was a rather clumsily executed parody of then popular girl band the Spice Girls, concerning the misadventures of five artificially created women manufactured to service the perverse desires of 'intergalactic scumbag' Bazzajan Quilty after they escaped their creator, who subsequently put a price on their heads. The five Space Girls were: Deep Space, an emotionally repressed genius who wore an expression concealing visor, Inner Space, who could shrink herself and in the process grow wings, but had a very limited attention span, Hyper Space, a flame haired and fiery tempered speedster who could move faster than the human eye can see but needed to eat constantly to feed her super fast metabolism, the pink haired Free Space, who could divide herself into three distinct individuals for a maximum of three hours at a time (one of her alternate selves was sickeningly sweet, the other totally amoral) and the suggestively named Wide Open Space, a blonde nymphomaniac irresistable to men. The girls were supposedly intended to represent 'girl power', but were almost universally hated by the readership, with Wide Open Space in particular enraging female fans who saw her as a stereotypical insult to womanhood.