Four Women is an American five-part limited series published by Homage Comics. Written and drawn by Sam Kieth, it deals with four female friends of varying ages -- Donna, Bev, Marion and Cindy -- and a road trip during which they are attacked and sexually assaulted by two men. The story mostly takes place in a flashback as Donna recounts the story to her psychiatrist.
The comic touches on several of Kieth's trademark themes: rape, feminism, and s...
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Four Women is an American five-part limited series published by Homage Comics. Written and drawn by Sam Kieth, it deals with four female friends of varying ages -- Donna, Bev, Marion and Cindy -- and a road trip during which they are attacked and sexually assaulted by two men. The story mostly takes place in a flashback as Donna recounts the story to her psychiatrist.
The comic touches on several of Kieth's trademark themes: rape, feminism, and survivor guilt.
The comic deals mostly with the characters and how they deal with the stress of the encounter and the guilt that might be associated with it. As usual Sam Keith's enigmatic writing and strange drawing style work towards an understanding of such complex concepts as perspective, rape, emotion, crimes against women, and guilt.
Bev, Donna, Marion and Cindy set out to their friends' wedding in a car. Throughout the book, Donna is restrictive about the details of the encounter when describing it to her psychiatrist. She eventually...
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