What strikes me as noteworthy is the hologram aid who is helpful and patronizing to him as he moves through the planet, being denied access to his daughter while being a cog in the system that took her from him.

They aren’t man-handled or beaten. We soon learn that among these men is Meiko’s father who is on-board to help design a new addition on the planet - the stadium where his now dead daughter was supposed to stand with her team mates - and he is unaware of the news. Gotta note that they aren’t treated like cattle as the female prisoners were in the first issue. What a fun twist to see the men’s welcome to the planet… in positions of vulnerability as they stand naked and exposed. He orders their deaths with suggestions from the security system and then walks off to lunch unaffected, later making the report which details the ending of the lives of these three children.Īre we reading a comic book or are we watching another hashtag of a Black or Brown person get created on social media? Are we reading a comic book or did your heart just sink hearing your local news channel announce the death of yet another non-White child shot because they weren’t in the “neighborhood they belonged in” or that they looked “threatening”? Are we reading a comic book or were you just reminded of how little Black lives matter in the grand scheme unless its for our votes, our vernacular, or as inspiration for music, fashion, and the like?

The opening page of this book features brown-skinned children traveling in a place that’s most likely not home, deemed “trespassing” and “threat” and eliminated, mostly off-screen, by a security system. This happens as a Caucasian male sits, watching all of it on a screen. It is perhaps my favorite as I type this review. Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick / Artist: Valentine Delandro / Image Comicsįrom start to finish, from front cover to back cover, first page to last… this issue solidified itself as one of Bitch Planet‘s best ever.

Bitch Planet #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick