Female-Led Indie Comic Recs (1/3)
Bitch Planet (2014) - A feminist send-up of the exploitation film genre that takes place in a dystopian reality where non-compliant women are sent to an off-planet prison.
Coffin Hill (2013) - In her youth, Eve Coffin was a defiant, teenage lowlife from a high-society family - a family that lives under a curse that dates back to the Salem Witch trials. After a wild night of sex, drugs and witchcraft in the woods. Eve awoke to find ta she was naked, covered in blood and completely unable to remember how she got there. One of her fellow revelers was missing, one was in a mental ward, and one knew that Eve was responsible.
Copperhead (2014) - Welcome to Copperhead, a grimy mining town on the edge of a backwater planet. Single mom Clara Bronson is the new sheriff, and on her first day she’ll have to contend with a resentful deputy, a shady mining tycoon, and a family of alien hillbillies. And did we mention the massacre?
Curb Stomp (2014) - Three gangs. Five girls. No way out. Machete Betty leads a small gang of women under the self-appointed task of protecting their home of Old Beach, one of three boroughs surrounding a rich metropolitan city. The Fever-Machete Betty, Derby Girl, Bloody Mary, Daisy Chain, and Violet Volt-to defend their turf at all costs.
Halogen (2015) - There’s a rumor on Cityship Q that the gigantic body of a dead god was found floating in space. Rell, an agent working for the HaloGen organization, is tasked with finding the location of the god and retrieving it by any means necessary. Using her ability to form hyper-realistic holograms, Rell is about o take on the first mission she might not be able to finish.
Hexed (2014) - Luci is a a supernatural thief-for-hire, stealing wondrous objects from the dark denizens of the netherworld for her mentor/mother figure, Val Brisendine. But when Lucifer accidentally unleashes a terrible evil from one of the paintings hanging in Val’s art gallery, will any of the tricks up her sleeve be enough to stop it?