Man-Eaters #1

There will no doubt be naysayers regarding this book, the creators and their feminist agenda. For me, this is a fantastic book that has the potential to work as well as the Handmaidens Tale, with its believable characters and almost real world affectations. Overall a resounding return of one of the best creative team in the comics industry. Read Full Review

This comic is a kind of battlecry for every woman who has ever been asked, "is it that time of the month?" Chelsea Cain may have just had the frankest conversation about women's issues that I have ever heard, and this is only issue #1! Rarely have current political, social, and personal issues surrounding women been so boldly and bluntly presented. I think Chelsea Cain just unleashed a comic of whoop ass on the patriarchy, and it's truly amazing. Read Full Review

This book is clearly a labor of love for Cain who in past years left twitterdue to harassment following the release of her Mockingbird comic featuring a cover where Bobbi wore a shirt saying “Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda.” I personally loved Mockingbird and I love that this comic has roots in that situation. The industry needs strong voices like Cain's and I commend her for writing this and look forward to what the future holds. Read Full Review

'Man-Eaters' is an 'important' book but it's also just a very good comic. The important themes grow organically out of the story, not the other way around. This is a book you should be reading. Read Full Review

Chelsea Cain is back. She and her co-creators have set the stage brilliantly for what promises to be a wild, politically charged and highly entertaining story. Read Full Review

I hope to see the metaphors unravel in various aspects of the comic in future issues. They got the suspense down, the voice down, and even down to the character personality. I hope to see how the metaphors not only play out in her own development, but in the future setbacks as well. The creative team set forth an amazing start. What will make the comic better is the ease in transitions. Since the storyline focused on outlining the setting, situations, and set up, it often jumped in various places. Granted for the first issue it was exciting, and the set up was amazing. Read Full Review

Maneaters nails what it sets out to do, with an unapologetic feminist message. It's smart, funny, and has solid writing throughout. With gorgeous art by Kate Niemczyk and Rachelle Rosenburg completing the package, Maneaters #1 is an easy recommendation. Read Full Review

Every page of this comic had me smiling; the glitter design of the cover, the pamphlets warning of 'big cat attacks', the fact the first panel of the comic shows a tampon-superhero defeating the patriarchy; it's all tongue in cheek and fun. Read Full Review

Sharp writing, really beautiful art and an immediately lovable main character make for a really good read. Read Full Review

A smart and searingly clever satire, Man-Eaters #1 is a great setup for a comic that has important things to say. Visually, this book is a total treat, packing rewarding details and entertaining gags for careful readers into most of its panels. This comic gets a full endorsement. Read Full Review

Man-Eaters #1 is a fine start. It's an interesting world with a compelling main character. With a first issue as exposition-heavy as this one, though, it remains to be seen how well the elements of the plot will gel once the story gets into full swing. On the whole, though, I'm inclined to grant the benefit of the doubt while waiting, with some excitement, for future issues. Read Full Review

With genuinely enjoyable visuals and an intriguing storyline, there's quite a lot of promise within the world of Man-Eaters. Read Full Review

So this isn't for the ones who couldn't meet Cain at the table. This one is for us. The ones who don't use women's bodies to delegitimize them. Periods = Power, and having a body that gets a period does not make you a subgenre. In this world, tampons are the resistance. This is for us. Whether you get a period or not. So, make a Girl Power playlist. Read Man-Eaters. And don't apologize when a pad falls out of your purse. Read Full Review

The issue is visually dynamic with mixed media and clean line art, but the visuals also go in tandem with a script that presents the premise with an excellent balance of humor and seriousness. Read Full Review

Man-Eaters is an imperfect read to be sure, but that's not to say it lacks for ambition. Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk and company are tackling big ideas with over-the-top imagery, and the fact that they're able to do so with a sense of whimsy (rather than the stark bleakness of today's news and social media feeds) is all the more surprising. Read Full Review

Coupled with an art style that can serve sight gags as well as horror-orientated pages, this should be a home run, only it falters when it comes to how much actual narrative is on the page. Read Full Review

Man-eatersis off to a good start, and while it's potential is its main selling point, this first issue is the time to jump on and check it out. Pick it up at your local comic book shop or online now! Read Full Review

GoodDrones

Oct 31, 2018

Menstruation has evolved to an extreme. Women are now a danger to society. The women in your life might turn into giant cats. This comic is so funny and dramatic. Great parody of how coming of age changes how people and the government treat you. I really like how they kinda flip the idea of toxic masculinity. This comic also put menstruation on the main stage and out of the bathroom. We should be more open and understanding of our and others bodies. Can't wait for more.

Herptydoo

Oct 18, 2018

Jesus christ what a bunch of snowflakes on the user reviews here. This is a fun comic and the art is dope.

Gizmo

Oct 02, 2018

Very weird and intriguing. The main problem is that the issue feels like half a comic, it's not a complete thought.

daddyT

Sep 30, 2018

now THIS is a different sort of story.... tho I have to say, as a dad, the graph the girl drew on the first pages of "things my dad loves" is absolutely true :) from a base of 6, this gets a rating of: 7. +1 because: some small pull.

Synthozoid

Oct 12, 2018

I am on board with the feminist message of this book, but the script could be a little more artful in its execution. Look at Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick, similar message, but that is a damn good book. BP is compelling, has thoughtful pacing, and leaves the reader wondering what will happen in the next issue. Man-Eaters is just too on the nose and seems to be the same joke over and over. I'm not interested in what happens next for these characters. Sadly, I'm out.

Nightmare of Solomon

Sep 26, 2018

Hola amigos! *checks title* oh wait, this isn't America by Gabby Rivera, lemme try this again! Hello my friends! This is not an on-the-nose book, Cain comes in and pushes an anvil up your nostrils and into your cerebellum, and you feel the brain damage as you read it! The problem is that there's no nuance, Cain tries to go with allegory and seem like a deep-thinker, but it's just narm. And lastly, and I know she was asked about this on panel at a convention recently, for all the talk about diversity and such -- this comic has a very exclusionary plot, because it's about women, about ciswomen, about cis white women -- sure, you get a black girl being handcuffed once, and a couple of other PoC in a couple of other panels and may be in minor roles, but you can tell the characters in the comic that are the braintrust are white and the ones that are gonna drive the plot are cis white women -- and while she dodged that question at the convention about if her comic was exclusionary, this book confirms that yeah, this comic is very exclusionary: it's all about the cis women, about the cis white women... This comic shows the biggest problem Chelsea Cain has, she's not FEMINIST AF, she's WHITE FEMINIST AF, a brand of feminism that is incredibly toxic because it wraps itself in the flag of progressiveness and says it tries to go for intersectionalism, but it's really only about them -- and if you need a recent example, just look at what happened at The LCS Valkyries, Kate Leth's child, where it disbanded when allegations of racism and exclusion came to surface from women of color and trans women. While the high concept is interesting and could really be used to create IRL dialogue, the dialogue within the story, the story and the narration are kinda stilted, it's almost bad satire due to the lack nuance and the backmatter will make you eyeroll. The art is superb, but it's a bit of a waste. ? PS: Does Cain have a tampon fetish? PPS: Also, are we really supposed to believe that stopping people from turning into monsters and murdering their family is a bad thing? more

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Tree Fingers - Sep 26, 2018

I like how you just come on this site to trash comics you don't like. Time well spent? I'm more curious why you keep spending your money on these comics you know you will hate...

Nightmare of Solomon - Sep 28, 2018

I can tell you didn't read the review.

ArianaRayne

Dec 29, 2018

Mediocre story, too political, and trying way too hard to push an agenda, the art however is nice. When I first picked up this book I didn't realize just how much it tried to be overly feminist and the overused feminist sayings and politics are in practically every page, even the twelve year old character was mentioning the "patriarchy". It's not even something you can ignore because as I said it's on every page, one page in particular sticks out because of how silly it was, it's a full page illustration of some preteen girls and they are all wearing shirts with slogans on them with super cheesy lines on them dedicated to feminism. There's nothing wrong with some subtle feminism but this is a little too in your face about it, to the point where it's almost hard to pay attention to anything else in the book because even background conversations are about politics. Maybe this book isn't for me, But I am a little disappointed because the art and story concept both have potential and are something that I'm interested in but in the end this book just feels a little too much like propaganda to me, so I won't be buying the next issues. more

AkR

Sep 28, 2018

I really enjoyed the art in the book but wow this story is just ridiculous. It comes across as over-the-top satire but the deeper you dive you realize it's not so i just don't get who this book is for.

Nihilist

Oct 03, 2018

I'm not a newbie when it comes to completely ridiculous story concepts, it's relatively common in horror to think outside the box, and scare readers with things that normally don't seem scary at all. Look at Junji Ito's works, with literal spiral shapes or head-shaped balloons being absolutely terrifying, or Edgar Allan Poe being able to craft a story around a woman's teeth. Yeah, that shows you how creative and talented writers and/or illustrators can be. Now compare that to an idea of girls turning into blood thirsty cats during their periods, and Tampon Woman fighting Mr. Misoginy. Sounds like garbage? Guess what - it is. I really have no clue how anyone could have came up with this story. And it's not even because of its... uniquene ss, it's because it's so idiotic and ridiculous. It feels like an intentional parody mocking regressives often getting involved into the world of comics. Except it's not. After all, we live in a world where Squirrel Girl won an Eisner award! I wouldn't pick this book if it wasn't for people constantly making fun of it on the internet, and after some time not wanting to believe them, I decided to try it out myself. And man, were they all right. Pick it up only if you want to see and experience the dumbest comic since raping dinosaurs in The Wanderers, or Miss Marvel being raped and impregnated by her son who came back from the future. more

Briton

Nov 23, 2018

No sane person will find anything to like in this.

Kakashi506

Sep 26, 2018

Not even worth the paper its printed on, Cain is such a terrible writer.

BZA

Oct 28, 2021

total non-sense!!! -10/10 a complete insult to comics and humanity, was this written by a child??? I am one of the stupid ones that let my comic runs finish before I read them, and oh my oh my did Chelsea Cain ever teach me a lesson! what the hell is this!? I don't even know who to sue? did I just buy propaganda!? Wow I am such an idiot, I am embarrassed I wasted so much of my money :( but boyyyy never again!