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offworldcolony's review against another edition
5.0
The best comic you’re not reading. Sumptuous and effortlessly energetic art coupled with a dynamite script. I was laughing out loud and enjoying the elseworld character versions that popped up. A few issues in and you’re just IN the world. Truly gold spun from straw.
averylwc's review against another edition
4.0
This was a solid first volume! Totally going to continue with the series but my mind wasn't blown.
I picked this up because I was so excited about the concept and I was looking forward to a light-hearted adventure and I'd say that this delivered. The art is amazing too! I particularly love Wonder Woman's Rosie The Riveter look and Batwoman's League of Their Own baseball get up!
I look forward to reading more about these female heroes and I've heard they won a GLAAD award for this so I'm excited.
I picked this up because I was so excited about the concept and I was looking forward to a light-hearted adventure and I'd say that this delivered. The art is amazing too! I particularly love Wonder Woman's Rosie The Riveter look and Batwoman's League of Their Own baseball get up!
I look forward to reading more about these female heroes and I've heard they won a GLAAD award for this so I'm excited.
aceinit's review against another edition
3.0
A very volume with some very neat ideas, that somehow never quite manages to get past the introduction phase. I was hoping for more meat from the story, but instead we bounce around from face to face without ever really going anywhere. I'm not sure whether or not if I will stick around for volume 2.
ell_jay_em7's review against another edition
3.0
LOL I once again did not finish this but I got really close this time. I didn't hate it but there was a LOT going on.
My original review:
DNF, just couldn't get into it. There was a lot going on (a TON of characters)!
My original review:
DNF, just couldn't get into it. There was a lot going on (a TON of characters)!
laurenkara's review against another edition
3.0
tw: n*zi mentions, war (specifically WW2)
I really enjoyed the focus on female characters and loved that there’s f/f relationships in this but I found it really hard to follow at times. The art was gorgeous, but because there was so many artists and different styles it kind of clashed a bit. Going to continue with the next volume though because I love Harley and Ivy and won’t all the content I can get hahahahaha.
I really enjoyed the focus on female characters and loved that there’s f/f relationships in this but I found it really hard to follow at times. The art was gorgeous, but because there was so many artists and different styles it kind of clashed a bit. Going to continue with the next volume though because I love Harley and Ivy and won’t all the content I can get hahahahaha.
unladylike's review against another edition
4.0
It's 1940 and all your fav DC ladyBAMFs are gaaaaaay and fabulous!!! What more do you want? Okay, it's also full of above-average writing (both as a superhero book, and a book by Marguerite Bennett, whom I have not been impressed by in the past) and beautiful character designs.
Some of it doesn't make sense (Why does Harley have a Bat-symbol on her belt buckle?!) and some of it is cheesy-clever (Batwoman gets her name from the fact that she plays in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and fights baddies with a baseball bat.). Most of it is catered to the audience that might also read or write slash fic. The various queer romances and innuendos made me feel squishy inside, sometimes causing my eyelashes to flutter involuntarily, rather than making me roll my eyes at pseudo-lesbian fantasy fodder for the straight male gaze. I'm sure plenty of other queer feminists will disagree with that, but there it is.
What started as a gimmicky comic based on some collectors' statues is now a successful, widely-adored comic series of a variety sorely lacking at DC. Like Tom Taylor's treatment of the video-game-based Injustice: Gods Among Us series, Bombshells has no right to be this good.
Some of it doesn't make sense (Why does Harley have a Bat-symbol on her belt buckle?!) and some of it is cheesy-clever (Batwoman gets her name from the fact that she plays in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and fights baddies with a baseball bat.). Most of it is catered to the audience that might also read or write slash fic. The various queer romances and innuendos made me feel squishy inside, sometimes causing my eyelashes to flutter involuntarily, rather than making me roll my eyes at pseudo-lesbian fantasy fodder for the straight male gaze. I'm sure plenty of other queer feminists will disagree with that, but there it is.
What started as a gimmicky comic based on some collectors' statues is now a successful, widely-adored comic series of a variety sorely lacking at DC. Like Tom Taylor's treatment of the video-game-based Injustice: Gods Among Us series, Bombshells has no right to be this good.