Bitch Planet #7 Review

Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick / Artist: Valentine Delandro / Image Comics From start to finish, from front cover to back cover, first page to last… this issue solidified itself as one of Bitch Planet’s best ever. It is perhaps my favorite as I type this review. The opening page of this book features brown-skinned children traveling in a place that’s most likely not home, deemed “trespassing” and “threat” and eliminated, mostly off-screen, by a security system. This happens as a Caucasian male sits, watching all of it on a screen. He orders their deaths with suggestions from the security system and then walks off to lunch unaffected, later making the report which details the ending of the lives of these three children. Are we reading a comic book or are we watching another hashtag of a Black or Brown person get created on social media? Are we reading a comic book or did your heart just sink hearing your local news channel announce the death of yet another non-White child shot because they weren’t in the “neighborhood they belonged in” or that they looked “threatening”? Are we reading a comic book or were you just reminded of how little Black lives matter in the grand scheme unless its for our votes, our vernacular, or as inspiration for music, fashion, and the like?

What a fun twist to see the men’s welcome to the planet… in positions of vulnerability as they stand naked and exposed. Gotta note that they aren’t treated like cattle as the female prisoners were in the first …