Bitch Planet #1 Review

Writer~Kelly Sue DeConnickValentine De Landro ~ Art Bitch Planet is here, y’all and I’m about that life. In fact a lot of us here at BNP are and it’s a comic that we’ve been anticipating for a hot minute. Our Fave Kelly Sue? [icon_check] A Badass Woman Making comics about badass women? [icon_check] POC present and accounted for aka We-Got-That-Call-About-Diversity? [icon_check] A book from the ever exciting Image Comics lineup? [icon_check] A POC artist? We see you Valentine. [icon_check] What looks like a new comic book with a unique story that will touch upon several social  issues including the industrialization of the prison system and how society treats womenfolk? [icon_check] There is nothing cute here, there is nothing pristine. What’s here is a story presented without a whole lot of frills or ruffles. It’s raw. It’s bloody. It’s a beating. It’s in your face and it isn’t going anywhere. Criminals. Deviants. Weaker links. Those cast out. The worse society has to offer: women who fall into this category are ejected from Planet Earth to a new place–a prison planet.  

  Cue the music and we’re here. The prisoners are moved along like mindless cattle and the guards wear  helmets that eerily mask their facial features making them look less human and more like walking issuers of pain. Another unsettling feature of this place? The pink toned hologram forms of women who serve as guides with their faces all made up to perfection and their curves hugging their skin ti…