I love the setting, Trish's irreverent and headstrong attitude, and the heady thrill of the roller derby. On the whole, it's a great read, and I like the pro-union (ish) anti-slavery, indigenous inclusion themes as well. I found the narrative a little confusing at times, as from one panel to the next we could suddenly be in the middle of a situation completely unrelated to one before it, but even that adds to the complexity of the world. ( )

i love the worldbuilding, characters, the narrative themes & ideological issues, and the general tone of the dialogue... but the pacing starts to increase out of control exponentially. plot beats start to get confused and moments that r otherwise brilliant for the narrative, world, or characters get unfortunately strangled and killed by the absurd rate of development in the final pages ( )

‘Trish Trash: Rollergirl Of Mars Omnibus’ is a graphic novel by Jessica Abel with background and design by Lydia Roberts and colours by Walter. I’m not sure what background and design mean. Originally released in three parts, the story is here collected into one big lovely edition with full colour printed on shiny paper.
Trish is a lively, intelligent, likeable character and the story neatly combines the several threads of her life as a moisture farmer, her interaction with a Martian, her struggle against the Arex Corporation that controls Mars and her career as a Rollergirl playing Hoverderby, a game rather like Rollerball.
This is good clean fun and quite similar to a decent Heinlein juvenile..but with pictures! For full review see https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/trish-trash-rollergirl-of-mars-omnibus-trish-trash-...




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