Heather ~*dread mushrooms*~'s Reviews > Squad

I ended up really disliking this! And I hate that, partly because this is one of the few graphic novels where the art isn't distracting me with all its extra-ness and the colors don't make me hate my eyes. But I feel like the "patriarchy-smashing" message got extremely lost along the way. The girls kill predatory boys... until they don't. And we as the reader just *have* to know that the lead character is a small size 4. Yet the main character's mom is vilified for how toxic diet culture rules her life. Also, as other reviewers have mentioned, there were various microaggressions toward the characters of color. The one in particular that sticks out in my mind is when the MC is told she looks like a mermaid, but Asian.

I know feminism can be done well in entertainment because I feel it was in Sabrina. This book was on the right track but some things were mentioned and then left unaddressed, which came off as tone-deaf. Since I expected a super-feminist work, it just didn't work for me.