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One thing that is different is that this issue features a short comic life story of Cecilia Payne, a woman astronomer and astrophysicist who was a pioneer in the field. Her research was later appropriated by her male academic advisor. This piece of history illustrated in the back of the comic puts a real-life story to the otherwise fictional Jill Trent. The reader is invited to not only imagine other adventures for Jill Trent, but to imagine other female scientists may have been erased throughout time by systems and people who believed that women couldn’t or shouldn’t be practicing scientists.

@lehlight, “Jill Trent: Science Sleuth” #2 Drops Today and is More Science Crime Fighting Fun

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After a successful first release, Jill Trent: Science Sleuth is back for Issue 2! Nominated for a Geekie award for Best Comic/Graphic Novel, the original issue released in May 2015 to wide acclaim. (You can read my review of Issue 1 here.) Now for 2016, we’ve got another one.

To fill you in, back in the 1940s Jill Trent solved crimes in comic books with the help of her sidekick, and occasionally implied girlfriend, Daisy Smythe. She’s been resurrected by editor D.M. Higgins, who’s again collected 3 author/artist teams to keep Jill in ink. All of the features of the first issue are here: a great Golden Age look and feel, 3 different Jill Trent stories with different versions of who Jill can be, and plenty of ass-kicking sassy women heroes using their brains and their fists to catch bad guys.

Read more of our site review by @lehlight here!