Bitch Planet: Triple Feature #4 Review

Writers: Marc Deschamps, Sara Woolley, Vita Ayala / Artists: Mindy Lee, Rossi Gifford, Sara Woolley / Image Comics Another round of Bitch Planet Triple Features, another web of stories to get lost in! Our first story titled “Life of a Sportsman” written by Marc Deschamps, illustrated by Mindy Lee and colored by Leonardo Olea is a colorful affair that takes place surrounding an athlete and the heavy hitting sport of Megaton. In the Bitch Planet universe our group of inmates that we’ve come to know and love up take part in a version of Megaton but here at home, on Earth, it is a sport of the men and it is ever popular. From the first panels in we’re presented with the player to watch, Mitch Herman, as he’s followed throughout the years — the sports coverage spanning his professional and personal life. It’s a vivid tale on sports culture and toxic masculinity that may have some readers blink as they may think about certain individuals from recent news stories. The art produces big, hulking figures and lots of great panels in time skips with the commentators meshing it all together.

“Body Mods” by Sara Woolley presents a society that focuses on the female body and cosmetic surgery and of course it becomes body modification to the EXTREME. First panel in we’re shown our main character as she gets ready for a day out to meet with a ‘friend’ for a spa day. It quickly evolves into a trip to a building filled with more and more outlandishly fashioned mods of the body: wings, clinche…