She is a chilling portrait of the disturbing psychology of the love-obsessed female villain who is never allowed to really develop self-awareness. Then there’s Pretty Polly (a Harley Quinn) who is still in love with her Mr. She keeps changing her appearance and popping in and out of the afterlife because Retcon keeps rewriting her story. Julia is a super-powered mockingbird (mutant), so powerful that even her partners fear her and want to keep her on a leash. Julia Ash (an analog to Jean Gray, I think) has a very confusing story because she’s been retconned so many times by a villain actually named Retcon. As Daisy Green says during her story, “It always stings when there’s this whole story going on and you’re really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script” (102*)Īll of the stories are sharp and interesting, but three stood out to me. In The Refrigerator Monologues, we spend our time in Deadtown, listening to a series of women tell their origin stories, talk about their deaths, and let us know how they feel about being killed off to motivate their boyfriends and husbands to take on the Big Bad in their stories. The purpose of this universe is the opposite of those universes, however. Part of the fun is figuring out the references. There are analogs for Aquaman, Batman, the Joker, Harley Quinn, and the X-Men. Valente created a universe that closely mirrors our superhero universes. I plan to push this book into the hands of every reader I come across for the next several months. The stories in this short novella are poignant, fascinating, and profoundly angry. Valente lets these characters tell their stories from their own perspectives. In The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. In comics (and TV shows, movies, books, and other story media), hundreds of female characters get killed only to add pathos to the main character’s (almost always male) story. In 1999, comics writer and critic Gail Simone started a website called Women in Refrigerators to call attention to a troubling trope.
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