Not only is Squad‘s head girl boss, Arianna, constantly belittling her, the narrative as a whole uses her as a scapegoat.
The only black girl, Amanda, gets treated kinda shitty. There’s also SO MUCH girl-hate going on, and the only time a character ruminates on the difference between how girls and guys are treated, she’s the “dork” character and the line sounds generic and cringe. The thing is Squad it’s billed as “smashing the patriarchy,” but to me read just as often as a criticism on girl group dynamics, and offered a hypothesis of power = predator. Squad is a graphic novel about toxic group dynamics, the costs of friendship, how power corrupts, and yeah, literally murdering and eating would-be sexual predators.
You know what I never understood until I changed? How close anger and hunger are, really. Published by HarperCollins | Greenwillow Books ImprintĬannibalism, body horror, murder, blood, violence, attempt at attempted rape, high school clique nonsense, underage drinking.
The anti-girl-light gas-boss gate-keep graphic novel you’ve waited for?
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