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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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It’s a Cannonball, Bitch!

December 2, 2017 by ElCicco 5 Comments

I reviewed Bitch Planet Book 1 for CBR8, right before the 2016 election, and at the time, I wondered how a dystopia such as DeConnick imagines could come about — a patriarchy where submissive women are placed on a pedestal and “non-compliance” makes one a criminal. A year later it is easier to see how that might happen. On a daily basis we bear witness to the many ways women and minorities can so easily be stripped of their rights and criminalized. In Book 2, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Bitch Planet, cbr9, ElCicco, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kelly Sue DeConnick, president bitch, ReadWomen, Valentine DeLandro

ElCicco's CBR9 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Bitch Planet, cbr9, ElCicco, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kelly Sue DeConnick, president bitch, ReadWomen, Valentine DeLandro ·
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