“‘Well, she’s not fighting anyone. And not talking to anyone really. She’s just almost naked and posing.’
‘Do you think this Starfire is a good hero?’
‘Not really.’”
This is only part of the conversation Michele Lee, fantasy author, has with her 7-year-old daughter, whose favorite hero is Starfire. Lee asks her daughter what she thinks about Starfire prior to the her sexy transformation (which has caused controversy, as reported yesterday), and also reveals the new images to her daughter, who is made very uncomfortable. The 7-year-old’s insight ought to give DC Comics a lot to think about.
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The new nymphomaniac Starfire is cheesy and dumb.
The old OMG-Robin I’m-A-Princess_And_I-love-You! Starfire was cheesy and dumb.
Comics are cheesy and dumb.
Which is why they are good.
Eventually the new Starfire will fight monsters and super-villains and a good artist will draw it and then it will be good, whether or not 7-year-olds and parents of 7-year-olds like it.
With this logic, will the male ‘titans’ fight in leopard print thongs, and still be just brushed off as ‘cheesy and dumb, but good’? I’d imagine not.
Any time a hero is mostly eye candy, what you remember them for is rarely anything else. :/
No, the new Starfire is just dumb. That’s about it, just dumb.
@salmon pink
I can’t see any reason why you couldn’t make a good male-beefcake comic.
Reading someone written by Scott Lobdell and then complaining about the character concept is like watching the Nuremberg Rally and then going “Y’know what the problem with that speech was? That fucking mustache.”
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