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Post by harmonica on Feb 3, 2015 16:45:02 GMT -5
thats what i was thinking and still hope it will be, but issue 2 seems to point in a direction of some kind of team deathmatch the prisoners will be send to. i hope its just an arc and not the main plot
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Post by tundra on Feb 4, 2015 2:45:52 GMT -5
I'd read it more as being 'recruited' for a violent future sport in the vein of Rollerball or Aeroball, but I guess that's not a million miles from deathmatches depending on how it plays out.
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Post by bpp on Feb 8, 2015 14:33:47 GMT -5
Was quite a surprise to see it move to the 'violent future sports' comic - a genre well mined by stuff like Mean Area and Mean Team (art by the fabulous departed Massimo Belardinelli (google him - best.aliens.ever.) or Harlem Heroes. Indeed the funniest thing about Bitch Planet is how close it comes to a lot of old 80s action comic strips (Prison in Space - Harry 20 on the High Rock, Future Team Violence Sports - Mean Team etc).
It's a very very Euro comic vibe wrapped with this (pretty non-existent in issue two's strip) feminist agenda. The running machine sequence was great although the actual plot progression in this was clunky.. all these characters running up to the main character and discussing their agendas, the convience of the 'designer' etc.. it works as a plot progression but its not really credible. So there is a tension between how creditably we are to take the reality of the situation (and thus the seriousness of its political message) and the incredulity of the genre-pastiche. Which makes the back matter somewhat jarring. Fair play if you want to hand your pages over to some social message, thats all good. Just not sure the strips' content is matching up to any of the agenda due to this tension between genre and agenda.
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Post by wamphari on Feb 22, 2015 20:12:05 GMT -5
Holy Cow, Issue 3 was the best yet.
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