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A review by unladylike
DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 1: Enlisted by Marguerite Bennett
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.