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If anything ever deserved the label ‘feminist as f***’, it’s this book.

December 29, 2015 by narfna 4 Comments

I don’t even really know what to say about this book, other than you should probably read it. I was a bit skeptical going in to Bitch Planet, despite glowing reviews, because I’d read Kelly Sue DeConnick’s other non-superhero ongoing comic, Pretty Deadly, earlier this year, and was pretty unimpressed with it at the least, actively turned off at worst. Still can’t decide which at this point. (The art was gorgeous, though.) But holy crap, I shouldn’t have been worried. This was AWESOME. Like, I […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Bitch Planet, dystopia, Extraordinary Machine, feminism, Kelly Sue DeConnick, narfna, Satire, sci-fi, science fiction, vol. 1

narfna's CBR7 Review No:200 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Bitch Planet, dystopia, Extraordinary Machine, feminism, Kelly Sue DeConnick, narfna, Satire, sci-fi, science fiction, vol. 1 ·
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Are you non-compliant?

October 11, 2015 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Are you non-compliant? Do you fit in your box? Are you too fat, too thin, too loud, too shy, too religious, too secular, too prudish, too sexual, too queer, too black, too brown, too whatever-it-is-they’ll-judge-you-for-today? You may just belong on Bitch Planet When you get a load of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s dystopian world — earth as run by a patriarchy called “the Fathers”–  you might prefer to be on the Auxilliary Compliance Outpost, also known as “Bitch Planet.” In a not-too-distant future, for reasons that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bitch Planet, CBR7, ElCicco, Extraordinary Machine, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kelly Sue DeConnick, ReadWomen, Valentine De Landro

ElCicco's CBR7 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bitch Planet, CBR7, ElCicco, Extraordinary Machine, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kelly Sue DeConnick, ReadWomen, Valentine De Landro ·
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