In the book, “Bombshell” is the moniker of a covert superhero team headed by Amanda Waller (you know her from the Suicide Squad). Waller recruits the Bombshells, and it’s up to the heroes to enlist of their own free will.

“In a lot of cases, women are not in control of their own image,” Bennett said. “You are raised to serve a certain male gaze and standards of beauty that were not your own invention. I think a lot of the backlash as far as like, ‘Oh, girls and selfies, they’re so vain,’ is the fact that you’re taking control of your own image.”

Bennett has a point.

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. ”