FML #2

by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Cris Peter (colorist), David López (cover_art)

Strap in for another shot of satire and sincerity from an Eisner award-winning team. As Portland smolders, an airplane door falls from the sky, flinging Riley’s Mom into a trauma-induced reverie. This leads to a bizarre encounter with physicist Richard Feynman and ends with a gathering of middle-aged riot grrrls united to solve the murder that haunts them all. Meanwhile, the school conducts a dystopian shooter drill and Riley’s monstrous form shields his peers, casting a ludicrous light on modern horror. FML once again delivers a narrative as compelling as it is confronting. • Eight issue series.

Genres: Comics, Feminism

Kindle Edition

Published December 11, 2024

About the author

Kelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film and television. Ms. DeConnick first came to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing the Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Black Label standard-setting Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times best-sellers and been honored with Eisner Awards, British Fantasy Awards and Hugo nominations.

Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.

Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.

In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.

Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.

Reviews

[Colin Post · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Parenting is hard.” I love how the big reveal at the end of last issue - Riley becoming a monster - just gets incorporated into the world of this book, no questions asked. López’s art continues to be so fun and inventive, capturing the tone and tenor of Patty in a visual way.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Combining a 'truth is stranger than fiction' incident during Portland's 2020 coronavirus summer - that I had completely forgotten about because that summer was unreal - with an adolescent's coming-of-werewolf, formerly punk-rock mom tries to control what she can, and ignore what she can't and be a supportive mom in both cases (while engaging in some light witchcraft to change some of those "can'ts" to "cans").
This is going to be such a fun series!

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great great great. Very intense use of very topical, very relevant issues and situations. I loved how the issue was more from the mom's perspective. And we got to see fictional Matt! Yay, I'd wondered where their dad was.

[Kitkat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the parent child relationship. The story is unraveling really well and I can't wait to find out what happens next. Sadly, the third edition is the last one that came out so far. So I'm gonna have to wait a while.

[Wm · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredible mom comic. Which, given our largely toxic culture, doesn't feel like positive hype...

BUT I PROMISE YOU IT IS. Read this.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loving.

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately, I'm not really feeling this. I thought I would enjoy it, but the writing fell flat for me. Good concept, poor execution.

[Elif Kaba · Rating 5 out of 5]

çok güzelsin.