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Aging, Womanhood, and Golden Rage
Since my comic book shop is about an hour away, I usually go every few weeks to pick up my pull list. This past Friday, I made the trek down to get my pulls for the past couple of weeks. While there, I wanted to find some new books to check out, and I asked someone if they had any suggestions. They pointed me to two new series: Tom King and Elsa Charretier’s Love Everlasting and Chrissy Williams and Lauren Knight’s Golden Rage. Each series caught my attention for various reasons. Love Everlasting follows Joan Peterson, a woman trapped in a series of romance comics, reminiscent of Golden Age romance comics that in some ways reminds me of some aspects of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Criminal: The Last of the Innocent. Kelly Sue DeConnick labels Golden Rage as “Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls with dashes of Agatha Christie and Logan’s Run.” Needless to say, each of these premises appealed to me before I even read the inaugural issues.
At some point, I want to write some about Love Everlasting, but today I want to look at the first issue of Golden Rage because even though I have so many questions still the first issue promises that the series will address a myriad of important issues, specifically through its direct confrontation with the ways that society views aging, womanhood, and more. Before we even open the issue, these themes become apparent, not just through the title of the…