Image Comics Announces ‘Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best’ — ‘Squid Game’ Meets ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

by Olly MacNamee

Poet, editor and writer Chrissy Williams re-teams with artist Lauren Knight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and colourist Sofie Dodgson (Bitter Root, Tank Girl) for a new five-issue miniseries, Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best. A “dystopian feminist tale” coming this April from Image Comics.

Here’s the synopsis:

“In a world where old and infertile women are deemed useless to society and abandoned on an island, Golden Rage documents their golden years of making friends, baking dessert, and fighting to the death. Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best builds upon the first miniseries for a glorious new adventure.

Golden Rage can perhaps best be described as an action-packed, feminist battle-cry and a high-stakes, dystopian blend of Squid Game and The Handmaid’s Tale.”

And here’s Williams:

“I’ve always thought of Golden Rage as aspirational—I hope my days also end with such good friends and stabbing weapons. I can’t wait to share this series with everyone.”

Knight added:

“There’ll be more fights, more wrinkles, and more hot flashes than ever before—and we prove definitively that, yes, denim is for all seasons.”