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crystalstarrlight 's review for:
Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch
by Valentine De Landro, Taki Soma, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Bullet Review:
It was neat to see where the story went from volume 1. My biggest regret is not rereading volume 1 before jumping into volume 2 - not an ideal situation, as I was playing catchup most of the time. While the artwork on the characters makes them memorable (Penny and Kam are pretty distinct), the other characters blend in if you haven't read the previous volume.
This issue starts off with a standalone with Meiko, and that was not the way you want to start back a long-awaited second volume. There were important bits to the story but the artwork by Soma was atrocious.
Obviously, this is a very in-your-face feminist work, so if that's not your bent, well, don't be surprised if you don't like it. I think, like the Handmaid's Tale, this tale of "non-conforming" women being arrested for not maintaining their pretty complexion or being completely servile to men or other mundane things is an introspective tale (in the vein of science fiction, of course). It's meant to bring into sharp contrasts the way that sexism still exists...blah blah blah, feminist theory, blah blah. No one wants to hear me go off on that on a review (my more introspective character and plot analyses don't seem to get nearly as many up-votes as my barely coherent rants :/ ), so let me stop myself there.
I kinda want to go back, read volume 1 and then volume 2 again. I'll still be checking into volume 3 but with a bit more reservation.
It was neat to see where the story went from volume 1. My biggest regret is not rereading volume 1 before jumping into volume 2 - not an ideal situation, as I was playing catchup most of the time. While the artwork on the characters makes them memorable (Penny and Kam are pretty distinct), the other characters blend in if you haven't read the previous volume.
This issue starts off with a standalone with Meiko, and that was not the way you want to start back a long-awaited second volume. There were important bits to the story but the artwork by Soma was atrocious.
Obviously, this is a very in-your-face feminist work, so if that's not your bent, well, don't be surprised if you don't like it. I think, like the Handmaid's Tale, this tale of "non-conforming" women being arrested for not maintaining their pretty complexion or being completely servile to men or other mundane things is an introspective tale (in the vein of science fiction, of course). It's meant to bring into sharp contrasts the way that sexism still exists...blah blah blah, feminist theory, blah blah. No one wants to hear me go off on that on a review (my more introspective character and plot analyses don't seem to get nearly as many up-votes as my barely coherent rants :/ ), so let me stop myself there.
I kinda want to go back, read volume 1 and then volume 2 again. I'll still be checking into volume 3 but with a bit more reservation.