Bitch Planet #6 Review

Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick / Artist: Valentine Delandro / Image Comics First things first, thanks to the Bitch Planet creative team for putting a trigger warning for sexual assault on the opening pages on this issue. I believe more and more of the creators of the media we consume (in this case nerdy media like comics and television shows) are blindsiding us, the fans, with content that we love but forgetting that real shit happens to us. I’m not just talking about lazy writing and dumb tropes for female characters (*cough* Did someone say Game of Thrones? No? *cough*) And before you jump into whining about how social justice warriors are ruining comics or whatever you love just remember this: comics don’t exclusively belong to you. Comics belong to all of us. And if you’ve been hiding under a rock or Donald Trump’s hair piece , you would know that women are a large percentage of comicbook readers. In fact, women have been there from the start. You could argue that Bitch Planet is pandering to female readers but in reality–this is a comic that is catering to a fanbase which I can only guess has a big female fan base. Isn’t it nice to give a shit about your fanbase? I digress, after the trigger warning there is also this tidbit here:

  Last issue we lost a shining star, we lost Meiko. Meiko, Maki. “A field—self-professed engineer and bonafide smartass” as the inside text of this book tells. It was brutal death for me to experience as a reader: I was just getting to kn…