![]() But when you need her, here she comes to save the day, doing it for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. She finishes off her foes in one glorious masterstroke, but the minute she’s gone, all the wickedness and darkness of the scheming, teeming world comes rushing back in. The answer is not so glamorous in The Refrigerator Monologues, a new book containing a series of linked short stories by Catherynne M. From the assorted villanies that plague the common man. Then she goes out into the big, bad night and saves people from loneliness. She takes every blow that comes her way like she doesn’t even feel it. She explores her power, learns a specialty move or two, sweats her way through a training montage, throwing out punny quips here, there, and everywhere. It’s a short read, a novella really, at only 147 pages, but it packs a punch. Somebody makes her a costume – skintight – revealing, a flattering color, nothing much left to the imagination. The Refrigerator Monologues is a feminist response to the way women are treated in superhero comics. ![]() She chooses a new name – something over the top, flamboyant, a little arrogant, with a tinge of the epic. ![]() ![]() One day, an intrepid, fresh-faced young woman discovers that she has a talent. “Becoming a porn star is pretty much exactly like becoming a superhero. ![]()
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