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Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine (Bitch Planet Collected Editions, #1)
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bookshelves: angry-satire, creator-owned, if-i-wrote-comix-theyd-be-like-this, owned-and-read, why-did-i-wait-so-long-to-read-this
Nov 01, 2015
bookshelves: angry-satire, creator-owned, if-i-wrote-comix-theyd-be-like-this, owned-and-read, why-did-i-wait-so-long-to-read-this
Gorgeous art, arresting premise, good storytelling.
I have the great fortune to live in Portland, where Kelly Sue either (a) lives or (b) has stationed an incredible LMD to keep us fooled.
I have gone out for nearly every signing that Kelly Sue has held, and taken the time to get to know her as a person (almost moreso than as a writer).
Kelly Sue's a fascinating person - opinionated and generous, painfully self-critical and talented and expressive as soon as she gets out of her own way. Successful in ways I could only envy - every time I see her table at one of the Portland comics shows, the lineup of people waiting to see her gets longer and more daunting. (Hell, at the last Rose City Comicon, I almost walked straight up to her table because I assumed the line of 30+ people was waiting for the bathroom. Barely walked away with my life.)
The stories of Kelly Sue's that I like best as weird/dark and sarcastic as hell, expressing a point of view that is fuelled by incredibly personal feminism and socialism, without becoming that kind of smash-you-over-the-head screed that unsubtle creators throw at us when they're new to the gig. (I still remember my brother taking me to see one of his Toronto theatre idols do a one-man show about politics that couldn't have been more political and tone-deaf if it was written by a ten-year-old. We were both disappointed to the point of drink.)
This book has all the markings of near-future sci-fi, and some great characters who I'm instantly interested in (and in the case of Penny, instantly in love with).
I have the great fortune to live in Portland, where Kelly Sue either (a) lives or (b) has stationed an incredible LMD to keep us fooled.
I have gone out for nearly every signing that Kelly Sue has held, and taken the time to get to know her as a person (almost moreso than as a writer).
Kelly Sue's a fascinating person - opinionated and generous, painfully self-critical and talented and expressive as soon as she gets out of her own way. Successful in ways I could only envy - every time I see her table at one of the Portland comics shows, the lineup of people waiting to see her gets longer and more daunting. (Hell, at the last Rose City Comicon, I almost walked straight up to her table because I assumed the line of 30+ people was waiting for the bathroom. Barely walked away with my life.)
The stories of Kelly Sue's that I like best as weird/dark and sarcastic as hell, expressing a point of view that is fuelled by incredibly personal feminism and socialism, without becoming that kind of smash-you-over-the-head screed that unsubtle creators throw at us when they're new to the gig. (I still remember my brother taking me to see one of his Toronto theatre idols do a one-man show about politics that couldn't have been more political and tone-deaf if it was written by a ten-year-old. We were both disappointed to the point of drink.)
This book has all the markings of near-future sci-fi, and some great characters who I'm instantly interested in (and in the case of Penny, instantly in love with).
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Started Reading
October 19, 2015
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November 1, 2015
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November 1, 2015
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November 1, 2015
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angry-satire
November 1, 2015
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creator-owned
November 1, 2015
– Shelved as:
if-i-wrote-comix-theyd-be-like-this
November 1, 2015
– Shelved as:
owned-and-read
November 1, 2015
– Shelved as:
why-did-i-wait-so-long-to-read-this
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Dec 17, 2015 10:45PM
Pen e rulz
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Excellent review, Mike. It always makes things more interesting when you meet the writer behind the books you like; especially when you get to talk to them and spot those personal traits and idiosyncrasies that make it into their fictional characters, the biographical details that get renovated and transported to their fictional worlds.
