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A review by beneatthetrees
DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 1: Enlisted by Marguerite Bennett
2.0
My boyfriend brought up a really good point about comic books: they're something that you constantly have to read so you have a tolerance for them. Like dairy. I don't read comics so I don't really have a tolerance for them and gauge them as I would gauge novels.
Reading this was like reading a book with a whole cast of female characters named Suzie, Susan, Susannah, Sarah, Shelly, and Sara'i. The art in this graphic novel was the equivalent of that. Each woman had almost the exact same body, similar length of hair, and similar faces. The hair color changed from here to there but honestly I could only pick out Wonder Woman or Harley Quinn easily.
The story itself had one quirk that kind of irked me, the DC Bombshells were active because all of the male superheroes were off at war. I don't think that they were trying to do this but including that tidbit of info made me feel like the women would not be active if the men were still in town.
It's hard to review this because I don't remember the storyline very well (because I couldn't tell anyone apart) but I did love the forties pin-up approach to the costumes and I loved the casual lesbian couple featured (I can't tell you who they were, I thought it was Harley and Ivy but then I didn't think it was and ????) without any sexualization or gratuitous scenes!
I think this would be much more enjoyable if I were more familiar with the nuances of each character so I could pick them out at any point. :\
Reading this was like reading a book with a whole cast of female characters named Suzie, Susan, Susannah, Sarah, Shelly, and Sara'i. The art in this graphic novel was the equivalent of that. Each woman had almost the exact same body, similar length of hair, and similar faces. The hair color changed from here to there but honestly I could only pick out Wonder Woman or Harley Quinn easily.
The story itself had one quirk that kind of irked me, the DC Bombshells were active because all of the male superheroes were off at war. I don't think that they were trying to do this but including that tidbit of info made me feel like the women would not be active if the men were still in town.
It's hard to review this because I don't remember the storyline very well (because I couldn't tell anyone apart) but I did love the forties pin-up approach to the costumes and I loved the casual lesbian couple featured (I can't tell you who they were, I thought it was Harley and Ivy but then I didn't think it was and ????) without any sexualization or gratuitous scenes!
I think this would be much more enjoyable if I were more familiar with the nuances of each character so I could pick them out at any point. :\