Man-Eaters #1

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[locuatico]

meh. still makes more sense than the cat-flu in "escape from tomorrow"

[silverzeo]

... what actually MADE sense in that movie?

Seriously, when I first heard about it, I thought I read it was about how Disney Land would become a stronghold for the Zombie Apocalypse, a land of dreams and happiness being a literal stronghold to all the madness and death to the rest of the world... but we got... THAT movie.

[cyberghostface]

Kind of reminds me how True Blood used vampires as an allegory for civil rights and yet still depicted most of the vampires as amoral monsters who regularly fed on and killed humans.

[filthysize]

I find it only fitting for pop culture to embrace the shift in the marginal class' rhetoric from the "why are we feared? we're normal just like you" that fueled stuff like the X-Men to the "yeah fear us, whatever, just move out the way of progress or we will fuck you up" language of today. I rather enjoy the new paradigm.

[leoboiko]

I was expecting just some gory fun (and it was fun indeed), but the visual narrative technique in this actually left me impressed. Just rubbed salt on the wound for the senseless loss of the Vision sequel.

[kore]

Yeah, it's predictably going over like a lead balloon here, but I really like it. People seem much more inclined to let male comics writers do out-there stuff than women.

[broblawsky]

I can't help but feel that this concept was done better in Naomi Alderman's The Power.

[tcampbell1000]

One of those T-shirts would've been the appropriate knife to the chest, and two would've been allowable, but four's a bit... statistically improbable?

[cyberghostface]

Yeah it's very contrived.

[beyondthefringe]

I'd like to think they were all wearing those as part of a protest when they got arrested.

[icon_uk]

I really want to make a Pussy Riot comment at this point, but feel it would probably be a bit on the nose.

[shakalooloo]

If it weren't for the sales of those t-shirts, they'd never be able to round the catgirls up. Slogans are like catnip for them!

[leoboiko]

This is a political-satiric comic, similar in tone to Bitch Planet (spot the wall poster)? It's not intended to be subtle.

You might be familiar with the controversy surrounding the authors' cancelled Mockingbird series and the "Ask me about my feminist agenda" cover, which ruffled an entire mini-Comicsgate of anti-feminist fanboys. This is they doubling down (well, quadrupling down). It's an "in your face, motherfuckers" kind of thing—not just the T-shirts but the entire theme and premise.

[sindra]

This is so forced it's ridiculous.

Like, seriously...I'm completely confused as to what this is supposed to be. Satire? Political commentary? Because all I'm seeing is a laughable exaggerated knockoff of Ginger Snaps.

[cainofdreaming]

Ginger Snaps? Surely you mean Cat People?

[lissa_quon]

Ginger Snaps had the menstruation/ puberty/werewolf thing going on.

Cat People I think just had "women be sexual beasts" thing going on. Though I haven't seen it - and just know if from film studies mention.

[cainofdreaming]

I don't remember menstruation, but IIRC the transformation was a coming of age thing too. And that black panther can't be a coincidence. And the eyes are kind of iconic.

[silverzeo]

So cats are a drug?

South Park Did it.

[lissa_quon]

Toxoplasmosis IS a thing - it can alter peoples brain chemistry and also cause illness but alas - no slavering cat people.

[zachbeacon]

I really hope her novels are better that he comics because this just doesn't seem to be working out for her.

[malitia]

Yeah... not subtle. It's also supposed to be an overly serious 12 year old recounting events she was probably not even alive for to see so half of it is probably regurgitated propaganda (the other half what she gathered from occasionally overhearing her dad).

EDIT: My biggest worry about this series is potential TERFiness. Both the general premise and the first issue so far very much equated "woman" with "people who menstruate" which... is not a good sign.

[lissa_quon]

So tempted to steal that last panel just to throw in web arguments randomly with no context.

So if they kill menarche - how does the human race live on? Petri dishes?