The tropes are such a fundamental part of pop culture that I recognized most of them, and I’m not a comics person myself.īut the real fun of The Refrigerator Monologues comes from Valente’s hyper-stylized voice, inflected by turns with pop, jazz, and opera as she moves from heroine to heroine, genre to genre. If you’re a comic book fan, you’ll have fun playing spot-the-analogue (oh, there’s Harley Quinn, there’s Gwen Stacey!), and if you’re not, you’ll get the general gist. “You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.” “It’s a funny thing,” says one member of the Hell Hath club. And where their stories end, the heroes’ stories continue. Every night, the Hell Hath club holds a meeting, and they tell their stories: One woman accidentally gave her boyfriend super powers and then got thrown off a bridge another had a sadomasochistic love affair with the supervillain she met in the lunatic asylum until he killed her. The book is set in Deadtown, a place run by gargoyles where the only food served is extinct. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
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