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Bitch Planet, Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine
by Kelly Sue DeConnick
4/28/18
I stand by my below thoughts after re-reading this first issue. It was still an incredibly strong start to a series that I seriously fell behind on (am correcting today during Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon).
12/10/14
4 Stars + 1 Star for the Topic
So, I picked up my copy of BITCH PLANET yesterday, because of the hype, because of the subject, and because I wanted another single issue series to pick up.
This comic really started off strong for me. I loved the cover, it’s empowering and magnificent, and it really caught my eye. In the first couple of pages, I really felt that strength and power in both the words and the images on the pages.
The backgrounds in these couple of pages are very enlightening about what Earth is like in this futuristic setting. All the billboards are forcing images of unrealistic beauty women on the world, and telling women that this is what is expected of them. This is beauty, and everything else, is ugly and wrong.
And then, we see the world a little more closely, and we see how warped it really has gotten. Bitch Planet is a place where non-compliant women are imprisoned, and we see the strength of those women that are there. We also see weakness really early on, and it was my one issue with the comic. I feel like it’s a woman’s right to choose how she lives, but it almost seemed like, if you want to live your life as a housewife, you’re considered weak in the eyes of the author. Maybe I read too much into it, but that’s what I saw, and I didn’t care for that commentary at all.
Anyway, overall I really enjoyed this first issue. I already know who the good gals are versus the evil bad men, and I like that I already know who I want to root for. I’m definitely going to be picking up the next issue, and I’m looking forward to seeing where BITCH PLANET goes from here.
I stand by my below thoughts after re-reading this first issue. It was still an incredibly strong start to a series that I seriously fell behind on (am correcting today during Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon).
12/10/14
4 Stars + 1 Star for the Topic
So, I picked up my copy of BITCH PLANET yesterday, because of the hype, because of the subject, and because I wanted another single issue series to pick up.
This comic really started off strong for me. I loved the cover, it’s empowering and magnificent, and it really caught my eye. In the first couple of pages, I really felt that strength and power in both the words and the images on the pages.
The backgrounds in these couple of pages are very enlightening about what Earth is like in this futuristic setting. All the billboards are forcing images of unrealistic beauty women on the world, and telling women that this is what is expected of them. This is beauty, and everything else, is ugly and wrong.
And then, we see the world a little more closely, and we see how warped it really has gotten. Bitch Planet is a place where non-compliant women are imprisoned, and we see the strength of those women that are there. We also see weakness really early on, and it was my one issue with the comic. I feel like it’s a woman’s right to choose how she lives, but it almost seemed like, if you want to live your life as a housewife, you’re considered weak in the eyes of the author. Maybe I read too much into it, but that’s what I saw, and I didn’t care for that commentary at all.
Anyway, overall I really enjoyed this first issue. I already know who the good gals are versus the evil bad men, and I like that I already know who I want to root for. I’m definitely going to be picking up the next issue, and I’m looking forward to seeing where BITCH PLANET goes from here.