A review by rosehillmb
The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson

4.0

I kind of wish this book had a different title. Using "Superwomen" gives the impression the book discusses superheroes but isn't the case. Perhaps saying...sisterhood of obscure female characters! :) That isn't accurate either because we do get Wonder Woman and Ms. Marvel and other well known female characters. I would say the majority of this book focuses on obscure (only appeared in one single page comic??) or at least not well known comics characters.....and mainly on female characters who end up naked or having sex. So was this a book about sex in comics? I can't say it was about feminism or feminists in comics bc so many of the characters were described as ditzy or overt caricatures of women and they were only in one page of one comic so they didn't even offer longevity. Why do we need to know about them?

None of that is bad, but just wasn't what I was expecting when I randomly picked it up off the library shelf! So...4 stars bc it really did act well as a history tome of sorts, but really more like 3.5 bc it felt a little all over the place of what it's goal was.