Okay so if you are a DC fan and badass women fan, you must read Marguerite Bennet’s amazing series, DC Comic Bombshells!

It has badassery, it has feminism, it has women fighting nazis, it has women fighting bigots, it has women fighting in WWII, it has Eleanor Roosevelt as President! Really what could be a better alternate history to explore. Also the artwork is amazing nod to those pinup styles of the 1940s while also providing some modern flair with tattoos and such.

As a history major and world traveller, Bennett did copious research not only into WW2 but also the Spanish Civil War, the colonialism and imperialism in Africa, Japanese internments and others so as to provide historical tidbits and realism even in this action packed story of superheroes. Also her goal to write three-dimensional women was well-met here as each women has their own story and complexities. And each in their own genres like Batwoman is a radio serial, Catwoman is a noir film, Supergirl as Russian propganda story etc. With art by various talented illustrators like Marguerite Sauvage, Kelly Fitzpatrick etc. that reflect that.

Also if you’re concerned that in this girl power book that even the evil women will be seen as good, nope. Evil women are still evil even if they have sympathetic backstories, they are still acknowledged as bitgoted Nazi sympathesizers because part of being a feminsist is seeing women as equal as men. Including being equally evil. Same with the men being equally good like Steve Trevor and Arthur Curry and Superman here.

Plus, as an alternate history it goes all out in representing a vast amount of ethnicities and sexualities.

But the best part is that she almost included every DC heroine and villainess in this. Yes, even obscure ones like Isis and Felicity Smoke, and Lady Blackhawk and the female Question, Rene Montoya. It’s like something I always wanted to write, but it’s real and better than anything in my imagination.

The only sad part is that I believe it got cut off too soon as the final volume showed various battles but it was so smashed together I felt like I missed a couple of issues as they smashed the final three of the war into like 5 pages, which is a shame because I felt this one could have the legs to keep going.