Bitch Planet: Triple Feature #2 Review

Writers: Che Grayson, Danielle Henderson, Jordan Clark/ Artists: Ted Brandt, Sharon de la Cruz, Naomi Franquiz,Ro Stein/ Image Comics [title type=”h4″]Bits And Pieces[/title] Super stoked to see Che Grayson here with a writing credit as she is a storyteller and a person who understands how important seeing and writing black women into the stories we consume. In the first comic that graces the pages we are introduced to a gaggle of girls, a bunch of tweens in competition mode with a stage before them: welcome to the “Miss Tween Neck Competition” which features two hosts with the most unnerving smiles (and one with a very convincing likeness to the leader of the free world aka the man that many of us have come to nickname “45”) These kids are getting ready for the finale and each panel gets more and more creepier and unsettling.

I also want to note that this is the first entry in the BP Triple Feature stories to have child protagonists. It makes me think because in the entire Bitch Planet universe we’ve only touched upon the youth of a few characters Penny and more so into the childhood of Maiko. Using children, using little girls makes this entry eerier and very, very effective in the way how black bodies are used again and again exploited for the trauma porn that populates the media and triggers me and people that look like me. It makes me think how on Black girls aren’t always guaranteed a childhood due to predators that the music industry refuses to hold accountable. Let u…