Female Furies: Rise and Rage Against the Man(chine)

Female Furies reimagines Jack Kirby's infamous female warriors through a brutally honest modern day lens. In this special guest post, writer Cecil Castellucci explains how the now collected miniseries first came together.

When I took on the task of writing Female Furies this year (with brilliant art by Adriana Melo) I wanted to take the fierce women that I saw had been delegated to the gutters between the panels in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and put them front and center. I wanted to give light to their story. To give voice to their journey. To turn up the colors that Jack Kirby had so expertly already stitched into the story but had not put on the pages. I set out to reimagine the story of Granny, Big Barda and the other Furies and focus it through the lens of the reckoning that we as a society are having right now with the Me Too movement. It is no easy feat to take a small sliver of the Fourth World and try to recontextualize it for today, but that is what Adriana and I tried to do in our miniseries. We are in a moment of reckoning and Barda and the Furies seemed ripe to have one in their world, too.

Female Furies: Rise and Rage Against the Man(chine) DC Comics Blog 12/23/2019