Valente expands upon the “refrigerated woman” concept in her new book, The Refrigerator Monologues. The site features a list of women in comics who have been “killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall ” to further male characters’ stories. Founded by Simone and other comics fans, the website was named after a scene in Green Lantern #54 in which the hero finds his girlfriend’s corpse stuffed in a fridge.
Verdict: Buy it, damn you, and listen to their stories., Readers adventurous enough to parachute into unfamiliar literary territory will be rewarded by Valente's biting wit, outlandish world-building and well-focused sense of outrage., Readers adventurous enough to parachute into unfamiliar literary territory will be rewarded by Valente's biting wit, outlandish world-building and well-focused sense of outrage., In this novella, the superhero girlfriend gets to tell her own version of events in the afterlife. The women's voices are strong: bitter and full of pain, yet steel-tipped in sarcasm and humor.“It’s not healthy to be a female character in comics,” Gail Simone wrote on the website Women in Refrigerators in 1999. Don't turn from their stories, no matter how hard they can be to hear. It's by turns bitingly sarcastic and wistfully regretful, and always ferociously angry at the narrative in which this collection of women has been trapped.", This is Valente at her sharpest and most pointed, ably assisted by illustrations from comics artist Annie Wu ( Black Canary )., The illustrations by longtime comic artist Annie Wu are an extra gift to this heartbreaking series of stories. It's not about angry polemics instead, these monologues have their own energy and life that is both painful and captivating, "This is Valente at her sharpest and most pointed, ably assisted by illustrations from comics artist Annie Wu ( Black Canary ).", ""The real fun of The Refrigerator Monologues comes from Valente's hyper-stylized voice, inflected by turns with pop, jazz, and opera as she moves from heroine to heroine, genre to genre. They are all of a piece- and they expertly dissect a common type of lazy storytelling that still crops up far too frequently. The women's voices are strong: bitter and full of pain, yet steel-tipped in sarcasm and humor., It's hard to single out one tale. Valente Proves Her Adroitness with Imagery and Emotion in this Extraordinary Book of Linked Stories., In this novella, the superhero girlfriend gets to tell her own version of events in the afterlife.
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