Trina Robbins | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis & critique of Trina Robbins.

Trina Robbins | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis & critique of Trina Robbins.
This section contains 2,728 words
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Trina Robbins [is] one of the most challenging writers and lyrical draftsmen now active in underground comics…. (p. 737)

Trina's stories often involve strong, independent and very attractive women who are set upon but ultimately victorious over viciously hostile men. In "Speed Queen Among the Freudians," for instance, which appeared in the first issue of Girl Fight, a solitary woman space traveller, upon arriving on Freuda, a planet inhabited solely by white men who worship a giant black phallus, is instantly seized for landing her "phallic craft next to our monument to the Great Maleness" and thrown in a dungeon "for the heresy of penis envy."… At the last moment she breaks free of her captors, grabs a ray gun and shoots it out with them while taking cover behind the giant black phallus. This her adversaries inadvertently shoot down, which causes them to see her through eyes suddenly...

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