Bitch Planet is a very smart, heavy, dystopian science fiction comic packaged with a provocative title and deliberately pulpy covers. The initial set up seems to beg for comparisons (Hunger Games meets Orange is the New Black, or perhaps 1984 meets Feed) but hiding under this familiar beginning is a delightfully horrible new world in which characters of integrity are rare gems. The first five issues are a quick and addictive read but only just begin to scratch the surface of a larger plot. I'm very curious what twists this story will take in later volumes.