She does, and the projection might as well be a mirror – no difference between her reality and her ideal. The prison wardens hook Penny up to a mind-reading device and ask her to picture her ideal self. The flashback itself is humanizing without avoiding real-world politics like the over-incarceration of people of color or the phenomenon of “good hair”.īut the framing device is a little schlocky. The comic’s third of 30 planned issues is backstory for Penny Rolle, an angry, tender black woman who is “wantonly obese” and shaves her head. Like many contemporary feminist works, it equivocates. This is one of the strengths of Bitch Planet. Although standards of physical beauty are a common topic in this series, there are no Pygmalion or Miss Congeniality turns of fortune: the heroines do not suddenly become physically attractive because they’ve “discovered” their true selves and conveniently chipped away at their defenses only to find physical beauty.
One of two main characters, Penny Rolle, is extremely fat.
Bitch Planet’s women aren’t all sexy, and none are winsomely manic or quirky. Although there can be repeat offenders, one gets the sense that NCs (noncompliants) are interned for the long term, and that their labor and thoughts are massaged, not just patrolled.īitch Planet is refreshing to anyone who’s spent time with some of the more popular ne’er-do-well female superheroes like Harley Quinn or She-Hulk.
As in our reality, most of the inmates are women of color.
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