by Kelly Sue DeConnick (Author) (Writer), Taki Soma (Illustrator), Valentine De Landro (Artist), Robert Wilson IV (Artist) -- 156 pages
In a future society, a woman's failure to comply with patriarchal overlords will result in her being exiled to the worst penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest group of prisoners arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will they fight each other and the internal politics of Bitch Planet?
I thought this was a pretty good story. I liked the strong feminist take, where a woman can be incarcerated for being overweight, or outspoken (or probably someone that a guy in power finds annoying). It's a scary idea, especially when you consider that this kind of thing happened here, in our own country, although not to this extent. It wasn't too long ago in our history that women could be sent to mental asylums because the men in their lives found them too outspoken, or too depressed, or too problematic.
What I also liked about the story is that even though it's pointing all kinds of double-standards and issues, there's humor here. I liked that in every issue, there's a page with fake ads like you'd find in a regular comic book (or in the back of some women's magazines). It's humor, but with a nice sharp edge.
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