by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, Red 5 Comics
Geek
media and fandom have a problem with how they treat women. Simply put, geek
culture is pretty awful to women a lot of the time. Taking steps to rectify
this and make geek culture more inclusive for non-dudes is important and morally
good. But as a straight-white-dude myself, I'm often left unsure how I can
contribute to the discourse. (I usually air on the side of listening and
coaching my own behaviour.) It seems that Clevinger and Wegener are also
motivated to make comics less toxic to female readers and have responded by
making a comic about totally rad jetpack wearing lady sky pirates. Which I
think is a thing we can all get behind. Atomic Robo: The Flying She-Devils Of
The Pacifc is set just after World War 2 and tells the story of Atomic Robo
being rescued and taken in by the Flying She-Devils, a group of renegade women
aviators who have become jetpack pirates in the wake of the war. The She-Devils
and Robo run afoul of a lurking post-war Japanese threat and Sky Action occurs.
Atomic Robo Vol. 7 is an exciting story of war in the skies full of humour,
courage, camaraderie, sacrifice, and explosions. And also a group of well
defined, cool female characters. She-Devils of The Pacific basically proves
that you can make a fantastic, rad comic featuring mostly female characters
that pretty much everyone can enjoy. I mean, this should be obvious, but if you
need proof, here it is.
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