Not sure what to make of this new series yet. Art looks good, but the storyline is questionable. It will have some of us crazy cat people up in arms I am sure. (yes, we are one of THOSE people that embrace the crazy cat lady — crazy and all)
More after I read it.
Some tid bits from the feature spotlight over at the Image Comics website…
“Popular culture has a long tradition of manifesting social anxieties as monsters, so I figured, ‘What are we scared of most right now?’ Women,” explains Chelsea Cain, creator of Man-Eaters, a new ongoing series. “Adolescent girls scare the bejesus out of most people. We’re so culturally confused about how to treat them. ‘Are they girls or women? Is puberty a curse or a super power?’ I loved the notion of menstruation causing women to transform into killer wildcats because it’s such a terrific allegory, but mostly it is a way to explore this cultural discomfort.”
In the series, Cain explores this cultural discomfort alongside artist Kate Niemczyk, designer Lia Miternique and colorist Rachelle Rosenberg. The story centers around a rapidly sprouting 12-year-old girl named Maude and her divorcee father, an affable homicide detective. Their world and experiences are not unlike our own: Dad struggles to balance career responsibilities with being a single parent, Maude buoys between precocious teenage angst and lingering childhood assuredness, and both reluctantly anticipate Maude’s impending hormonal changes. But in this world, puberty for girls comes with an uncontrollable lust for violence. A cat feces-induced gene mutation called Toxoplasmosis X has been tainting adolescent girls during menses, generating a freakish transition from girl to bloodthirsty big cat. After years of shapeshifting panther-girls murdering their families and neighbors, the government took action by ending menstruation via progesterone and estrogen-spiked water supplies. The result is fewer cat maulings, but obviously at a cost. “Basically, it’s Cat People meets The Handmaid’s Tale,” Cain explains. “I wanted to write the kind of comic I wanted to read. Man-Eaters is a smorgasbord of my interests: horror, humor, satire, feminism, superheroes, murder, monsters, and cats.”
Read the whole article here: Image Comics
Description of the Man-Eaters comic book:
Eisner-nominated and New York Times bestselling thriller writer CHELSEA CAIN returns to comics with a new ONGOING SERIES! A mutation in Toxoplasmosis causes menstruating women to turn into ferocious killer wildcats—easily provoked and extremely dangerous. As panic spreads and paranoia takes root, the fate of the world rides on the shoulders of one twelve-year-old girl. Part Cat People, part The Handmaid’s Tale, MAN-EATERS will have everyone talking.
From the creative team behind the Eisner-nominated series Mockingbird: writer CHELSEA CAIN, artist KATE NIEMCZYK, colorist RACHELLE ROSENBERG, letterer JOE CARAMAGNA, and joined by LIA MITERNIQUE, KATIE LANE, and STELLA GREENVOSS. This September… the cat wants in.
from ScifiSlacker.com