Bitch Planet, Vol. 2 by Kelly Sue DeConnick

They only put it here so they can wag their fingers at it. 28.The practice that most annoys me, and it’s something that exploitation films do, and I also think it’s something that comics frequently do, is they will set up something to be deliberately salacious, and then pretend to have some ethical structure around it. Issue 2 goes on sale in comic-book stores Jan.

Prioritizing your comfort makes me a bitch, I'm OK with that.'

Their noses and light coming up from below, casting shadows on their At their 'intake' toīitch Planet, its newest prisoners float suspended in liquid, wires in Lichtensteinian dots and bracing pinks and greens. The art is visually striking: It's full of Is full of mail-order items like X-ray specs and personality True to its pulpy influence, that back page 'EAT MORE, POOP LESS,' reads a sign at aīusy intersection on Earth. Though it deals with material that's certainly sobering, Bitch Planet Tummy hurt.' When she sent a list of ideas to illustrator Valentine De Play with the exploitation trope and do it in a way that didn't make my Transfer that point of view at the point when the women would beĪllowed to get their revenge,' she says. Put the viewer into the position of the predator or the abuser and only 'They would set up these salacious situations and Prison exploitation films, DeConnick says she'd been trying to put her In this neat little box, then you are aberrant.' 'There is something veryĪppealing to me about the metaphor of women in cages, women in boxes.įemininity must be defined in this particular way, and if you don't fit Doom-like masks a giant, pink hologram in a nun's habitĪnd a bodice that demands their confessions and a pair of wardens thatĬontrol and quip over the action like a sadistic Statler and Waldorf.Īnd girls are still raised to prioritize the well-being and comfort ofĮveryone else over themselves,' DeConnick says.

Aĭoting Jason Biggs isn't waiting outside-some of these women's husbands Women in prison have, of course, drawn comparisons to Orange Is the New Black.īut the prison world is even less hospitable than Piper's Litchfield. 'noncompliant' and sent through space to a prison planet. Is set on an Earth where women who deviate from gender norms are dubbed Portland author Kelly Sue DeConnick, whose magical-realist Western Pretty Deadly was nominated for an Eisner Award, an uncomfortable title is appropriate. But for the new Image Comics series, written by Over the phone, given that 50 percent of it is an insult fortified by a Bitch Planet is an uncomfortable title to ask for

Bitch Planet, Vol. 2 by Kelly Sue DeConnick