Literally Graphic reviewed Bitch planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Review of 'Bitch planet' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Rereading my review of the first volume in this series I am reminded of all my complicated feelings for this series. Unlike most of my reviews, both the star rating I gave the first volume (4) or this second volume (3) should be taken with huge grains of salt. There are even a few ways in which I should probably go back and expand my review to take into account more of the issues outside of my own personal study trajectories.
As far as positive points for this volume, I still really enjoy the art and ads. This series continues to expand the less cute side of female created comics, which is good, and the outright aggressiveness of the series only feels more appropriate as time goes on. I also thought the involvement of more diverse black personalities and obvious statements about the inclusion of transgender women as women to …
Rereading my review of the first volume in this series I am reminded of all my complicated feelings for this series. Unlike most of my reviews, both the star rating I gave the first volume (4) or this second volume (3) should be taken with huge grains of salt. There are even a few ways in which I should probably go back and expand my review to take into account more of the issues outside of my own personal study trajectories.
As far as positive points for this volume, I still really enjoy the art and ads. This series continues to expand the less cute side of female created comics, which is good, and the outright aggressiveness of the series only feels more appropriate as time goes on. I also thought the involvement of more diverse black personalities and obvious statements about the inclusion of transgender women as women to be important, if reactionary, developments.
Of course, a majority of the developments of this volume did feel extremely reactionary, which is not really a bad thing if you frame it more as a dialogue where the author learns and grows as they go along. It did feel like a negative thing to me however because it is a consistent reminder how much of an outsider Deconnick is to the kinds of issues she is portraying. In a world that still suffers from a lack of own voice fiction, this continues to strike me as rather frustrating.
The reactions to the reactions to volume one (including adding a not evil dude figure) also felt like they took over a bit. Besides what felt like a few minutes of plot development, almost everything felt kind of crammed in to try and touch on all the parts of intersectional feminism that weren't covered in volume 1. And besides explaining why Meiko was on Bitch Planet there was pretty much zero substantial character development.
