![]() ![]() (The term originated with 1994’s Green Lantern #54, in which hero Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, is killed by the villain Major Force and left in his refrigerator.) Valente’s slim book is both a critique of the fridging phenomenon and a rage-filled pleasure all its own.ĭeadtown is a back corner of Hell where women wear the clothes they were buried in. The title is a combined hat tip to Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and to “Women in Refrigerators” or “fridging,” the term that comics writer Gail Simone coined to sum up the common trope in which female comics characters meet tragic ends purely to advance the hero’s story and character development. ![]() ![]() This is Valente at her sharpest and most pointed, ably assisted by illustrations from comics artist Annie Wu ( Black Canary). She’s well known for her skill at unpacking the hidden truths embedded in fairy tales and archetypes here she turns that skill on the troubling treatment of women in comic books, a perfect fit between author and subject matter. Bestseller Valente’s dazzling new story cycle creates its own comic book universe, complete with the gorgeously wrought prose pyrotechnics that readers have come to expect from her. ![]()
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