Only four issues into this new comics and my love for it knows no bounds. Bitch Planet is a pulpy dystopian series written by Kelly Sue DeConnick (Of the excellent Pretty Deadly and Captain Marvel) and artist Valentine De Landro. From a storytelling perspective, Bitch Planet takes place in a horrifying dystopian future where white men run the show and non-compliant women are sent to another planet, to an Auxiliary Compliance Outpost – AKA Bitch Planet. The non-compliant are the criminals, the guilty, the women – most of them minorities – who don’t conform in a myriad of ways. What constitutes “criminality” and “non-conformity” in this world are as arbitrary as you can imagine in this type of scenario: it’s obvious that the system is rigged against women from the offset. And because definitions and comparisons are sometimes useful, I want to say that Bitch Planet is kinda like Orange is the New Black in space. But this would be an apt description only if I add: Piper gets killed off in the first episode so instead of focusing the story on the privileged white girl, we get a story that focuses on the marginalised characters. Then you add Big […]