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The success of Bombshells would be a Cinderella story if Cinderella wore motorcycle boots. The initial idea was to build a comic book inspired by a line of popular collectible figurines. That germ of an idea has expanded into one of the brightest and funniest comics DC has to offer. The comic sold 60,000 copies in its debut print issue in August — a massive number for a digital-first comic.
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Women writers and artists like Bennett often face backlash for "pushing an agenda," which is usually followed up by complaints that they're ruining comics by not having women overtly sexualized in their stories. A similar backlash is also applied to nonwhite writers and nontraditional heroes.
But 60,000 issues has a way of drowning out those voices.
"I feel like there was a lot of resistance to that at first, but now people are like, 'The books are here, you can see what they're like, they're great. Go forth and read,'" Bennett said. "I think people are starting to understand that this is not the destruction of Western civilization if you let girls in your goddamn clubhouse."
Diversity is making DC Comics great again

Giving credit here is a little annoying because the issues were original published as digital chapters, so the numbers are different depending on which version of the comic you got. For example, I bought the first TPB, which collects the first 6 printed issues, which collect the first 18 digital issues. Anyway, those are the very first pages in any version of the book, the very beginning of the series.

I love the Batwoman pun. and I don't even mean ironically, I genuinely love the pun :D

"You don't get to control your story when it gets presented by someone else," Bombshells writer Marguerite Bennett tells me. She explains that the "announcer" is an exaggerated and satirical joke, but one that gets at a truth about female superheroes and women portrayed in comic books. "They're [the female superheroes] doing their own thing, but they're also aware of how they're being cut and presented and marketed, and being turned into icons."

During one of her patrols, Batwoman takes out a gang that sold Jewish refugees out to the Nazis. She is especially furious because she herself is a Jew, and her anger makes her reckless. She doesn't notice that one of the thugs got right behind her.

She comes to the conclusion that just being a Gotham vigilante is not good enough, and decides to enlist in Amanda Waller's secret team to help end the War.

(From digital issue #8)

This next issue opens with a terrible battle between American planes and German planes, bombs and explosions everywhere. Then...

(From digital issue #2)

It's interesting that they mention children. They don't explain how those children come to be, though the Amazons here are good people so I think we can thankfully exclude the rapes and murders of the current mainstream universe (admittedly the Queen does order Steve's execution, but it's noted that it's specifically because he is part of the army that indirectly caused the death and maiming of their children. Other Amazons are not happy with her decision and let Diana go rescue him).

The Queen listens to Diana's tale, but points out that they have already suffered heavy losses in wars against horrible enemies, so why should they risk their lives now to go aid the people whose army dropped bombs on their home? She then orders Steve's execution as punishment for the aforementioned bombs.

Naturally Diana breaks him out, with the help of her friend Mera.