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A review by viera
Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess Book 1: Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew by Jeremy Whitley
1.0
Relentlessly pandering swill that makes The Mary Sue comment section look like a hub for academics. This is it. This is the worst feminist comic I've ever read.
"Hey ladies, We heard you like Avatar, so we copied and pasted the recurring cabbage joke."
"We heard you like Twitter hashtags so we took a time out from the plot to give you literal pages of them!"
"We heard you like queer baiting between straight characters, so...."
"We heard you like misogyny so we made it the norm that adult males are shallow chauvinists who hate women but boys in this same world fight over who gets to play with the girl doll. It's cuz we saw a buzzfeed video where a girl complained about it. Not cuz we hate work building, though that's evident in the rest of the comic."
Now for some strong female dialogue:
"Where are you Daddy? Where are any of the good men? Where's...At least you're not that far gone, shippy (talking to the ship)"
"I never claimed to be funny, but at least I'm not funny looking."
"Trust me, when you let men run everything it rarely turns out well."
All of the dialogue is clunky and sounds like it was written by a man whose only knowledge of women was learned through the Internet. This is incredibly hack with unlikable characters, an inconsistent world where women occupy multiple leadership roles but men also see women as subhuman. Then why would they elect them? This is a society where men rape people in broad daylight, lock women in towers with dragons for no logical reason, and burn women for witchcraft, yet women still feel comfortable enough to incite mobs of men that they can somehow take on singlehandedly if need be. It's trying to have women be both oppressed and empowered at the same time. It just throws everything topical into a stew and hopes the girl power is enough to make people forgive the blandness of the work itself.
"Hey ladies, We heard you like Avatar, so we copied and pasted the recurring cabbage joke."
"We heard you like Twitter hashtags so we took a time out from the plot to give you literal pages of them!"
"We heard you like queer baiting between straight characters, so...."
"We heard you like misogyny so we made it the norm that adult males are shallow chauvinists who hate women but boys in this same world fight over who gets to play with the girl doll. It's cuz we saw a buzzfeed video where a girl complained about it. Not cuz we hate work building, though that's evident in the rest of the comic."
Now for some strong female dialogue:
"Where are you Daddy? Where are any of the good men? Where's...At least you're not that far gone, shippy (talking to the ship)"
"I never claimed to be funny, but at least I'm not funny looking."
"Trust me, when you let men run everything it rarely turns out well."
All of the dialogue is clunky and sounds like it was written by a man whose only knowledge of women was learned through the Internet. This is incredibly hack with unlikable characters, an inconsistent world where women occupy multiple leadership roles but men also see women as subhuman. Then why would they elect them? This is a society where men rape people in broad daylight, lock women in towers with dragons for no logical reason, and burn women for witchcraft, yet women still feel comfortable enough to incite mobs of men that they can somehow take on singlehandedly if need be. It's trying to have women be both oppressed and empowered at the same time. It just throws everything topical into a stew and hopes the girl power is enough to make people forgive the blandness of the work itself.