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Bitch Planet (Single Issues) #3
Bitch Planet #3
"Too Big to Fail" reveals the specific events leading to zaftig Penny Rolle's incarceration. ROBERT WILSON IV (Knuckleheads) joins KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) on art duties for this flashback issue.
32 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 18, 2015
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About the author
Kelly Sue DeConnick
365 books2,230 followersKelly 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.
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.
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May 1, 2023
Obviously by the five stars rating this is the best issue so far!
Even the essay in the end was amazing i loved it, and the best essay so far as well It's personal it's intimate and we made a connection there.
How old is Penny Rolle now that is what i really want to know!
I was surprised by the 22 or 28 years old when they imprisoned her.
Because she looked older not because she was big, the girl from Precious 2009 the movie was big but she was cute it was apparent that she was young.
Anyway way this was perfect as can be i loved it thank you ❤️
Even the essay in the end was amazing i loved it, and the best essay so far as well It's personal it's intimate and we made a connection there.
How old is Penny Rolle now that is what i really want to know!
I was surprised by the 22 or 28 years old when they imprisoned her.
Because she looked older not because she was big, the girl from Precious 2009 the movie was big but she was cute it was apparent that she was young.
Anyway way this was perfect as can be i loved it thank you ❤️
June 14, 2015
Can I give this more than 5 stars? Can I give it 10?
A comic book, about a fat woman, who isn't the butt of a joke, or apologising for her size, or portrayed as pathetic. Penny Rolle ROCKS!
A comic book, about a fat woman, who isn't the butt of a joke, or apologising for her size, or portrayed as pathetic. Penny Rolle ROCKS!
March 5, 2015
Wow. WOW. I was a bit scared about this Penny Rolle origin story. As a fat female I've been burned many times by fat caricatures and stereotypes in my media consumption (haha). I had braced myself to see it done all wrong, to have another fat person made into a punchline. Then I read... and all of my expectations were exceeded. When I finished I was full of emotion. Is it possible to yell in glee, scream in anger, punch through a wall and laugh at the same time? Whatever it was I did was something like that when I finished reading it. Race, class, gender and size were all handled really well as we see Penny develop into who she is today.
Well done, I can't wait for more!
Well done, I can't wait for more!
February 23, 2015
Penny Rolle, I love you so! Issue 3 presents the first character backstory/guest artist special issue which will happen every third monthly. Penny's story is told in flashbacks while a bunch of talking heads in suits attempt to get her to feel badly about herself. Born Big pastry shop just makes me all kinds of happy, and Penny's customers are horrifically repugnant and not so unfamiliar despite the dystopian setting. We also get a glimpse of other non-compliant ladies from her past as well as a super scary blonde who's part of the machine. Oh, and the wall of tv dudes made me ill. Oh, Penny, you showed them. Bring on the Born Big t-shirts (and the tattooed fans...). The back has yet another fun feminist essay and a great combo of fan letters, tweets, and instagrams. I'm rethinking my abstinence from certain social media if joining up means squeeing with fellow fangirls.
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February 21, 2015This is the first of the special issues focusing on the back stories of the characters on Bitch Planet. I really like how this not only informed character backstory but also did a lot for the world building as well. Looking forward to the next special issue!
April 7, 2015
I just want to say, thank you for this issue.
I really like the art style. And I'm enjoying the furthering of the character development.
For putting it out there that by societal standards brown and black women are non-compliant just from the start. Addressing and touching on the overabundance of minorities in our prison system.
I really like the art style. And I'm enjoying the furthering of the character development.
For putting it out there that by societal standards brown and black women are non-compliant just from the start. Addressing and touching on the overabundance of minorities in our prison system.
March 5, 2015
FINALLY got a chance to read this issue and I LOVE it. This issue's back matter essay was particularly awesome. Everyone should be reading this series.
June 12, 2017
Non-compliant
June 23, 2015
As the first "special third" issue, where a guest artist comes in to illustrate the back story of a certain character and I felt that this was a GREAT start!
Penny Rolle is a character that I can connect with on many levels, mostly being that we cannot contain our feelings for outrageous bastards. Already there are so many layers to Penny's story! I WANT TO KNOW MORE. GIVE ME A WHOLE VOLUME OF BACKSTORY PLS.
I also think these backstory issues being integrated throughout the series is genius!
My friend lent me the first three issues which is making me fly through these because I don't want to have them for too long. And now I just want more.
Penny Rolle is a character that I can connect with on many levels, mostly being that we cannot contain our feelings for outrageous bastards. Already there are so many layers to Penny's story! I WANT TO KNOW MORE. GIVE ME A WHOLE VOLUME OF BACKSTORY PLS.
I also think these backstory issues being integrated throughout the series is genius!
My friend lent me the first three issues which is making me fly through these because I don't want to have them for too long. And now I just want more.
March 18, 2015
Loved this first "special third" Penny Rolle backstory. Loved Richard Wilson IV's guest art. Loved the "Hey Kids, Patriarchy!" section. LOVED IT
September 26, 2016
Penny Rolle's vibrant back story and Megan Carpenter's fantastic essay resonated deeply with me. Short and savage, these women continue to impact me deeply and refuse to let go.
March 4, 2015
Yes!! My favorite issue so far. Keep it up, ladies.
April 4, 2015
Deserves ten stars for Ideal Penny.
April 10, 2015
Penny Rolle is such a great character! In the first couple of issues I was a little put off by how aggressive she was, but this issue totally cleared that up for me.
July 27, 2015
Great chapter about liking yourself exactly the way you are.
Penny is awesome!
Penny is awesome!
October 1, 2015
I'm not crying, you're crying!!!
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December 11, 2016brilliant
February 9, 2017
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I ain't broke...and you bastards ain't never gonna break me." Penny Rolle is my new hero :)
October 1, 2021
Best one so far! ❤️ The end is everything. That mirror. YES.
I've skimmed some of the reviews for the first few issues and I think a lot of people who don't "get it" could really use a women's studies class. Look up everything from treatment of women in "asylums" (men dropping off their wives so the men could start new lives, just like in the first issue) to Texas's abortion laws today. I love this series but it makes me sick to my stomach, too. It's supposed to.
This character isn't "obsessed with her breasts" as I saw another person post, either. Have you ever had to find a bra or clothing that fits large breasts? They are a nightmare to maintain. It's super clear that these reviewers have no idea about the experiences of half the population, which I'd argue is another reason why comics like this need to be written--except they still aren't getting it. These experiences have been ignored by mainstream media for too long. I love that more coverage of Black MaGes is here and I hope we get so much more of it.
I've skimmed some of the reviews for the first few issues and I think a lot of people who don't "get it" could really use a women's studies class. Look up everything from treatment of women in "asylums" (men dropping off their wives so the men could start new lives, just like in the first issue) to Texas's abortion laws today. I love this series but it makes me sick to my stomach, too. It's supposed to.
This character isn't "obsessed with her breasts" as I saw another person post, either. Have you ever had to find a bra or clothing that fits large breasts? They are a nightmare to maintain. It's super clear that these reviewers have no idea about the experiences of half the population, which I'd argue is another reason why comics like this need to be written--except they still aren't getting it. These experiences have been ignored by mainstream media for too long. I love that more coverage of Black MaGes is here and I hope we get so much more of it.
August 25, 2022
I read every issue of this series and wanted more. It's so wonderfully cathartic, and I'm a feminist who is cis male. I have to believe it would be at least as cathartic for women, or at least any woman who has come face to face with institutional and cultural gender bias through trying to speak up and step out of expected roles.
To paraphrase Kelly Sue DeConnick telling this story somewhere... Someone whined to her that one of her big franchise comics was "angry feminism." She replied with something like, "You want angry feminism? Try my other work called 'Bitch Planet'." Or something along those lines.
BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY, there's nothing wrong with that description. It's perfectly appropriate and, like I said, tremendously cathartic. Thank you, Ms. DeConnick.
Have fun stawmin' da castle!
To paraphrase Kelly Sue DeConnick telling this story somewhere... Someone whined to her that one of her big franchise comics was "angry feminism." She replied with something like, "You want angry feminism? Try my other work called 'Bitch Planet'." Or something along those lines.
BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY, there's nothing wrong with that description. It's perfectly appropriate and, like I said, tremendously cathartic. Thank you, Ms. DeConnick.
Have fun stawmin' da castle!
December 17, 2025
3.5 ⭐
... I don't think that you can love someone and not feel like a piece of you dies when you realize that they only love a fake version of you, or that letting go is easier than trying to be that version of yourself for a while...
... I think that you can love your weirdest, ugliest self more deeply than you're supposedly allowed to, and demand that others either love her or fuck off. And I think that whatever you might lose by refusing to conform will always be less than the pieces of yourself you lose by pretending to be the woman you are not...
Megan Carpentier
- Bitch Planet #3, 90%
March 8, 2019
La historia de Penny señoras! Me mata lo incorrecta que es y lo poco que le importa. La juzgan por su tamaño y su figura además de su carácter violento y a Penny no se le mueve ni un pelo cuando la juzgan o critican por eso. Vemos algunas escenas de su pasado y la especie de juicio que le hacen un montón de viejos blancos idiotas que tratan de sacarle cuál es su fantasía o su ideal de belleza para quedar sorprendidos con el resultado 😏
April 28, 2018
Hell yes to Penny! Getting her back story was magnificent! I love this series because it's filled with strong female leads. The ensemble is spectacular, but Penny may be one of my favorites. Getting a glimpse at how she came to be on Bitch Planet was so enlightening.
And that last bit - wowzers!
And that last bit - wowzers!
December 11, 2017
Well, I'm getting a bit confused as to why they weren't combined in the first place? This last one was basically a character study with a lot of body positivity, and I seriously think this whole volume is reading like a graphic novel and not a series of comics combined.
November 1, 2017
Loved Penny's story.
February 23, 2018
So. Good. And infuriating. And timely.
January 4, 2019
qnd aparece a realização idealizada da penny e eh ela exatamente do jeitinho q ela eh e ela fala "if it ain't broke, don't fix it. i ain't broke. and you bastards ain't never gonna break me."
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June 4, 2021I could do without all the sexual content, but that's just a personal preference
March 29, 2023
PENELOPE IS THAT BITCH
February 14, 2025
Penny knows who she is and in order to get the “perfect” version all she needs is a mirror.
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