There’s a fair amount of action, but little of it isn’t common to prison dramas (or indeed, prisons). Wrapping the issues she’s concerned about in sensationalism attracts a far larger audience than she would just blogging about them, but it also means the plot needs to be serviced, and that can dilute the message. It may seem a strange comment about a graphic novel featuring the brutality of a prison riot, but the strength of Bitch Planet is the visceral commentary and the plot takes over here. In our world plenty of oppressed women eventually snap, and it’s all too rare that anything other than the snapping point is taken into consideration.Īs well as the sleaziness of the attitudes to women, DeConnick has a few barbs about the sleaziness of corporate culture to the throw into the pot and keep it simmering, but after the raw manipulation of the previous book President Bitch is tame in comparison. It seems an overly cautious warning in what is very much an adult graphic novel, but this is a disturbing tale, and the only one in the book with a really strong point to make. The ongoing story is punctuated by chapters detailing the pasts of individual cast members, and Meiko Maki’s opens this book, prefaced by an advisory of sexual assault featuring in the content and suggesting anyone likely to be disturbed skips to the following chapter. In the slipstream of revelations about Harvey Weinstein Bitch Planet has become ever more relevant. Beyond the deliberate anonymising of the facility name, it’s a jail, colloquially referred to as Bitch Planet.įor all the 1950s b-movie trappings and designs around the series, Kelly Sue DeConnick has a raft of serious points to raise about how we live today, about the general treatment of women in supposedly civilised societies. Although present day real world issues are introduced, it’s set in the USA of the future, where any women whose behaviour has infringed male sensibilities for any one of a variety of reasons is shipped off to the Auxiliary Compliance Outpost on another planet. Extraordinary Machine introduced a resolutely unpleasant society where women are second class citizens.
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