Third, altering the entire character dynamic of Furiosa. Where is the friendship, where is their unconditional love and care for each other that made the wives so substantial? Why was it reduced to this sham of them being damsels in collective distress who desperately needed saving and regularly turned on each other? This kind of double negative really pisses me off. This comic not only puts focus on what was done to the wives, it also takes focus away from what they managed to do. Of them having one of the wives say 'you've got no balls' to Furiosa and get away with it. I'm so tired of the male gender putting female characters against each other and getting away with it. It's one thing for the wives to be treated like they are, but pitting them against each other with quotes like 'What would you know?! You're his favorite.' is just. Second, the extremely gendered portrayal of the relationships among the wives. What even is that? I tried to get past it but damn it, those panels really cheapened the rapes in a way that's just gross and highly uncalled for. While the movie trusted its audience to understand the kind of dire situation the wives were in, the comic blatantly shows said dire situations not once, not twice, but a few times. The comic is a whole another thing entirely and I'm ashamed that it's even a part of Mad Max: Fury Road because it's a poorly represented prelude to the actual movie.įirst off, showing rapes on panel. If you've watched the movie, you already know about the plight of the wives and how it was done spectacularly well without any need of any sexually explicative scenes whatsoever. In other words, I simply cannot ignore the colossal clusterfuck that is this comic. However, it's been a week since I read it and I only find myself getting enraged at the direction the team took this issue in. I will admit that I was a bit confused about all the rape panels when I was reading it, but I chose to give the comic a chance and only focused on the good parts. Imagine the extent of my disappointment at my discovery that a 40-page long issue of a comic managed to undo everything that made Mad Max: Fury Road so fucking awesome. I mean, so off the charts that I didn't even think about the possibility that it might just suck, let alone be anything other than extraordinary. So when I got to know about there being a prequel comic exploring the events right before the beginning of Mad Max: Fury Road, my excitement was off the charts. It's a fact that if I think about the movie for longer than 30 seconds, I'll find myself on a Furiosa high. Ever since I watched Mad Max: Fury Road in May, I've been obsessed with it.
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