Bitch Planet

I liked it. The story is compelling, the characters are awesome, and the art is really good. Ending every issue with an essay on Feminism is a great bonus, especially when they're beautifully written (also the Q&As, which remind you of the importance and the rarity of such a book to exist), but I'm only going to review the comics part of this volume for now.

Even though I really enjoyed it, I felt like there's a major flaw in the setting of the story.

It seems like we're in a dystopian future, but it doesn't feel like it. Usually in a dystopia, the writer finds out a pattern in our society's evolution and exaggerates it in the future, putting a mirror in front of our eyes, to scare us from what's to come. However, here, we have a 1950's society but with a better technology for oppressing women this time. I'm not saying that misogyny is gone, but I'm sure we're not on our way to having women shipped out to another planet. Or at least, not anymore.

It's a pretty cool set up, but usually when a writer doesn't want to follow the natural evolution of a society, they would insert a major event that would destroy Earth as we know it, so they'd be able to introduce their own logic, and suggest whatever consequences they want. Everything in this comic is really accurate, yet farfetched at the same time, because the backstory was not established (a sort of Deus ex Machina slipped at the beginning of the story).
I wonder what happened in this parallel universe that made Planet Bitch justifiable and women so disposable.

The series is still at its beginning, so maybe they'll be clearing up some of the issues in the volumes to come. There's a lot of potential in here. I will keep checking in, the story is still gripping and the character development very interesting, and of course the extended backmatter is the crown jewel.