The author of Bitch planet, Kelly Sue Deconnick is a comic book and graphic novel artist and writer that wrote avengers assemble, she wrote this graphic novel in response to criticism over the mainly female case of characters in her comic Captain Marvel. Bitch Planet focuses on a society that is controlled by the fathers, who change women’s appearances and behavior. The main character Penny Rolle, shows how she stays powerful in her actions even though she lives in a society that is completely ruled by men, these men control how woman act around people and how they see themselves. They make the woman into puppets that fit their whim.  The fathers tried to the same to Penny they wanted to change the way she is, to how they want to see her. Since the fathers control how woman act, dress, and behave. By using shots and color, Deconnick emphasizes Penny’s power to overcome the fathers’ oppressive gaze. 

The splash panel on the first page shows a wide shot which encompasses the main character’s whole body (Deconnick 176).  The use of this shot is to show how the main character looks, the extreme close-up of her eye in the bottom right hand corner shows and gives emphasis to her attitude.  This splash panel also shows the anger she has towards what is happening to her. The way she is standing shows the reader that she still feels power, even though she is about to stand in front of the ones that have been oppressing her this whole time.  The colors in this panel are washed with blue from the light coming from the TVs in the middle ground.  This blue washes the orange outfit she is wearing and gives off a high contrast, which draws more focus on her, and with the guards in the background it shows that she is in some type of prison.  This panel displays no speech bubbles and only shows a caption which helps create the emotion of anger and gives an insight into her thoughts, such as how she views the fathers and their actions, or how she is going to overcome the fathers and force them to let her live the way she sees fit. 

The graphic novel uses flashbacks to show what has occurred with the main character and how she has changed, in order to contest the ways that have been set in her society.

The first panel in tier one on the page 196 shows a flashback to one of the things that happened before she went to the prison to see the fathers. Deconnick demonstrates that this is a flashback by changing the gutter’s color from a white to a pale yellow.  However, the gutter is not the only thing affected by the yellowing; the entire panel is washed out with this color to further demonstrate the flashback. This panel is in a wide shot format as well. In this shot, in comparison to the previous one, the perspective is looking at the back of the main character instead of the front, This frame gives less importance to her features to instead focus on giving out a sense of control in the shop. The panel also depicts the small muffin shop in which Penny worked. In this shop, there are three girls, who the fathers have deemed as correct; they are white, skinny, and paying attention to every calorie they eat. This is the standard world they had preset. Outside of this standard is Penny. That is why she decides to smash the TV due to the annoying girls in combination with the propaganda that was on the television at that time.

This all shows how she is trying to stand up against the fathers and how they want to change her identity. She tries to rebel because of what they did to her grandmother and mother, as well as the way she looks. Just because she is overweight and black, they look at her and want to change her to fit what they have preset for the world. Because of her fighting back against the fathers, it creates this interesting narrative tension between her and them.

With how the main character tries to overcome how the fathers want her to act, it gives the reader a feeling that the main character has some power in this world, even if she is being oppressed and controlled. These panels, by using color as well as a wide variety of shots show that meaning vividly. She acts and shows herself in a way no one else does, and they in turn, see her as strange, because she is one of the only ones that have completely ignored their world. 
