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Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch
by Valentine De Landro, Taki Soma, Kelly Sue DeConnick
I love it when a series surprises me. Not with a surprise character reveal or an unexpected death, but when a series, be it comics, TV, movie franchise, or prose, is a well done, very specific subgenre that veers wildly in another, equally well-done, direction.
This volume picks up right where the story left off in volume one, and continues to be a women-in-prison tale soon taking the journey into a classic prison break tale. This is not the surprise. This volume serves as the journey from what the comic was in volume one to, what I imagine will be, the vastly different volume three. e may even come to understand how this society came to be so misogynist and awful. No, not the society you and I are living in, the one that jails women for being "non-compliant".
I mentioned in the first volume that there was a shower scene that [a:Kelly Sue DeConnick|16587|Kelly Sue DeConnick|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1298397680p2/16587.jpg] and [a:Valentine De Landro|93099|Valentine De Landro|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] spent months researching to make it perfectly striking, appropriate for the story, but not written or drawn for the male gaze. In this volume, we spend some time with a trans character, and it is clearly written with input from multiple trans people, rather than the usual "well, I'm straight but I met a trans person once, and I saw The Crying Game, so I feel justified in writing the motivations and actions of a trans person" bullshit. The work they've done to make this dystopian patriarchal society seem chillingly real and possible (with a huge assist from the current American and European governments) really elevates their work above and beyond most of the politically charged comics coming out right now.
I can't wait for volume three. But I will wait. Because it will be worth it.
This volume picks up right where the story left off in volume one, and continues to be a women-in-prison tale soon taking the journey into a classic prison break tale. This is not the surprise. This volume serves as the journey from what the comic was in volume one to, what I imagine will be, the vastly different volume three. e may even come to understand how this society came to be so misogynist and awful. No, not the society you and I are living in, the one that jails women for being "non-compliant".
I mentioned in the first volume that there was a shower scene that [a:Kelly Sue DeConnick|16587|Kelly Sue DeConnick|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1298397680p2/16587.jpg] and [a:Valentine De Landro|93099|Valentine De Landro|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] spent months researching to make it perfectly striking, appropriate for the story, but not written or drawn for the male gaze. In this volume, we spend some time with a trans character, and it is clearly written with input from multiple trans people, rather than the usual "well, I'm straight but I met a trans person once, and I saw The Crying Game, so I feel justified in writing the motivations and actions of a trans person" bullshit. The work they've done to make this dystopian patriarchal society seem chillingly real and possible (with a huge assist from the current American and European governments) really elevates their work above and beyond most of the politically charged comics coming out right now.
I can't wait for volume three. But I will wait. Because it will be worth it.