Bitch Planet: Triple Feature #1

Writer: Andrew Aydin, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, Conley Lyons/Artist: Joanna Estep, Maria Fröhlich, Craig Yeung/ Image Comics To be honest, I wasn’t exactly sure to what to expect from Bitch Planet’s Triple Feature. Not that I assumed it would be awful or a waste of money. I knew that this comic was an offering of three different stories by different creative teams set in the universe of Bitch Planet and obviously inspired by the comic that we’ve come to love. I was not expecting to be reading and just be stunned by how familiar these stories felt; how in tuned theses shorts were to what makes Bitch Planet, well, Bitch Planet. If Kelly and Valentine gave their blessing and passed the baton, these folks picked it up and ran to emulate FloJo with it. [title type=”h2″]Windows[/title] [title type=”h2″]Written by Cheryl Lynn Eaton/ Art by Maria Fröhlich[/title] Windows is the first comic short, at the center of it is Lupe, trained as a medic and in service to the fathers; she’s stationed at Bitch Planet and the first pages open to her and her team responding to an unruly inmate. With the exception of Whitney, we haven’t seen more women at the prison colony working if you don’t count the inmates and the ugh, hologram guides. Interesting still, Lupe is a woman of color. Lupe is talked over and her authority is questioned and then overruled by the other members of her team and it’s not a unfamiliar sight in the sense of this is something that happens often to women in the workplace.

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