Bitch Planet #5 Review

Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick/ Artist: Valentine Delandro / Image Comics Bitch Planet #5?

For real. There’s a certain joy in my heart going to my comic book store and picking up a pull list the week Bitch Planet arrives because 1) I love this comic, 2) I’ve come to embrace the fanbase and have found new connections with several female fans (#SayYesToSisterHood), and lastly 3) this book makes me angry. Yes, angry. You read that right. And sad. And lost. And leaves me in awe… and everything in between. This comic has a narrative that makes me feel certain ways all the way from Monday to Sunday and the week after that. Jumping right into issue number five, we see our crew with their team assembled ready and eager to go out kick some asses, take some names and wreck some serious ish up.

What did I love about this issue? For one, the delightful introduction to more inmates. The learning of the names and faces of more women (and their “crimes”) who more or less call the prison their home. This makeshift little family is becoming a real thing and we can start to put faces to names and these bodies can be more than just that to us readers. I  love seeing the women work together. As a team. As a unit. In some kind of formation towards a shared goal. Seeing fictional women do this stirs something in me — because yo, I’m so tired of the “you have to be better than her” type of mentality girls and women are sold. Seeing our team of women — mostly marginalized women, women with melani…