"I Am Not Starfire" new comic starring Starfire's daughter
 

Just... go and see. Yeesh.

http://epicstream.com/news/BayaniMig...qS1nqFi5ufphJE

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/star...graphic-novel/

... I mean... It looks like a bad idea... But is anyone actually going to buy this when it comes out or even remember it like five years down the line? Some of these sorts of obvious non-canon books like DKR get popular but most just seems to fade from memory. I willing to bet that the most this can hope for is to get posted on 4Chan as a meme in in a few years.

So Sandman Universe Hellblazer gets cancelled but this SJW garbage gets put to press give me a break

The SJW virtual signaling is strong with this one, indeed.

:lol::lol::lol: Whaaaaaat the f*ck.

I guarantee you that she has a big ol' tattoo of Jack Skellington on her back. :lol::lol::lol:

Garbage.

Every time I see one of "these" pop up, my whole inkling is always like... "Oh yeah, this HAS to be a joke, right? There is NO WAY someone seriously wants to make this and expects it to be successful, right?"

Yet they just keep coming.

ya there are a ton of these YA DC Novels they did one with Swamp Thing where it was really not swamp thing and one with John Constantine in School dealing with a big bad teacher. Zatanna got one too

Lol, that can't be real, it literally reads like a parody to rile people up.

I touched on this in another thread, the one about Rosario Dawson.

Gross people trying to normalize grossness because self-improvement is "too hard", that's really all it is.

Absolutely nobody with any self-esteem or sense of self-worth wants to read about Starfire's fat slob daughter who hates her hot mom and cuts herself because she doesn't like school. And if some kid says "HEY, I can relate to that stuff, though," then join a gym and get a f*cking therapist. That's what's gonna have to happen one day anyway, so just eliminate the "Spend X years moping" middleman and jump right to the self-improvement phase.

Remember when comic book characters exemplified characteristics we could look UP to, who inspired us to be BETTER than what we are? Yeah, more of that, less of stuff like this. That's all we need, a fictional character throwing themselves a Pity Party for the vicarious benefit of all the Life Losers at home. :roll: That's "inspiring".

F*cking junk. Fire these people.

I always thought Starfire ended up with Dick Grayson in most "future DC" continuities, but who in the world did she hook up with to create that kid?

"The Penguin, obviously" read one of the comments on the article. :lol: That was good.

The best comment of all, though, was in response to a Mod Edit: "I'm sure your wife's boyfriend is gonna buy you that PS5." :lol::lol::lol: I'm like DAMN, son. :lol:

Wait...he does not end up with Barbara Gordon?


I am just glad Mr. Grayson is not a factor in this joke.


This has such a microscopic audience to appeal to and the only two small groups are DC zombies who buy everything DC prints just because and those they buy it for laughs because of the ridiculousness.

I guess Dick and Babs got together in Convergence. I'm probably thinking of Kingdom Come.

I wonder if this was DC's answer to Snowflake and Safe Space, but they were too far in to drop it once they found out that didn't go so well for Marvel and Mr. lil kibblesmith on the market.

Either way. Awesome. Keep churning this stuff out. Seriously, no sarcasm, I hope they keep churning this stuff out.

Don't care if anyone disagrees with you.
Do care that this was succinct and poignant in it's very clear illustration.

I'm torn on the Dick/Babs and Dick/Kori thing, because a strong case could really be made for him ending up with either one. I mean, he always made a point to really connect with Kori on a "human" level, and she really needed someone like that at that point and it always kinda felt like nobody else was ever going to be able to connect with her in that way. Like everybody else was probably going to think of it like they scored the hot supermodel and that's all it would ever be, but Dick actually had a connection with her that went beyond that. So for her, just about any guy but him would be settling for far less than she deserves.

Similarly with Barbara, even after she was crippled he never treated her as "lesser than", and they do have the "Bat Family" history and all that. But one could also argue that their "relationship" was at least initially a manifestation of two people of close age growing out of the shadow of an extremely harsh mentor and using that to form a bond based on the fact that nobody but them could relate to what they'd gone through, but who knows if that would be enough to see them through forever.

I can see it going either way for a number of reasons, but I kinda feel like Kori "needed" Dick for stability more than Barbara ever needed him for any reason at all. I don't see Barbara as a spinster exactly, but she seems like the type of woman who'd always be alright whether she had a man or not. Meanwhile, we've seen how Kori gets on without Dick or some other stabilizing presence in her life; jumping into random sex romps with Arsenal and Jason and all'a that noise. So part of me leans more towards Dick/Kori based on that. Plus, there's also a symbolic thing there, what with Bruce being so distrustful and at times borderline bigoted against aliens, and Dick going so far as to marry and settle down with one would be huge from a dramatic standpoint and for making a big symbolic statement. So that would be cool to see, too.

I don't know. It works alright either way, to me. I think I lean more towards Kori, though, just a little.

...I mean, she's WAY hotter than Babs but that's not the only reason, I swear. :lol:

Wasn't this the plot to My Dad The Rockstar? And even then I don't think I ever enjoyed this story save for one time in Ever After High...and even then it had the bonus of children bullying the child of the witch from Hansel and Gretel.

:tlol: :tlol: :tlol: :tlol:

Savage.

At first I read that comment as "I'm sure your mom's boyfriend"... then I reread it and fell over laughing. :teek: :tlol: :tlol:

I've come to terms that it's just a phase and instead of getting all triggered by this stuff I can just move on and enjoy the things that I like. Eventually it'll fade just like 90s XTREEEEME comics did. And just like 90s comics were ridiculed later on, they were a product of their time. Just give it a few years, I mean no one wants to read about the fat goth multigender daughter of starfire.
Before it was "controversial" to sex things up and comics did, now it's "controversial" to do this. Some people may like it, I mean I love 90s XTrEEEEEME, but after the trend passed things went back to normal.

Figured it was worth preserving for posterity.

One of the comments said the author of this literary gem looks exactly like Starfire's daughter.

Literally self-insertion fanfic character, it sounds like.

I mean, it'd have to be, wouldn't it?

((Quick Google search)).....HAH! She totally does!! :lol:

Only people like that think people wanna read about and look at People Like That. So yeah, no surprise there.

She also wrote Casey & April for IDW TMNT, the single biggest letdown in the entire IDW series to date. And yeah, I'm including the Mutant Town bits I couldn't stand.

Casey and April do absolutely jack $hit in a desert. Not to be outdone, Rat King also does jack $hit but at least we find out he likes barbecue.

What a resume! How do folks keep getting work on high-profile IPs?

http://www.comicsgirl.com/2014/05/19...ics-and-prose/

The answer to your question is, "Every company needs at least one Token Biscuit-Muncher nowadays."

One of my good friends is a lesbian, and oddly enough, stuff like this makes her gag. She thinks it's vulgar that there needs to be a "checklist" and that people get put up on a pedestal simply for liking chicks over guys and making that part of their entire "identity". Doubly so when it becomes a commodity to be packaged and sold.

She's as queer as the day is long, and she thinks stuff like this is gross.

Like honestly everyone deserves to make a living doing whatever they wanna do, that's great. But treating people like Golden Unicorns because they bleed queerness is a little offsides, I think.

Now I'm wondering how personal of a thing this series is for Tamaki. Did She(Zie?) want to be like Starfire as a kid, but saw her(zim?) turn out way different? Or did she just grow up resenting the Starfire she saw in comics or in cartoons as an impossibly high standard? Did she insert herself into the story as a wistful longing to achieve something she couldn't obtain, or is this story her way of critiquing the entire industry which gave birth to the character?

Or maybe she just wants a check and can't help but inserting herself(zieshelf?) into every story she writes.

Official Mary Sue?
Not a new thing, but pathetic nevertheless.

Starfire has really been taking a beating as a character for years now.

The New 52 really fvcked her over with the Red Hood and the Outlaws series, and then they turned her into some sort of Hollywood diva with a solo series IIRC.

Now she's got a weird Goth daughter who hates her, so that an author can insert herself into the comics.

Maybe if a writer is going to go for self-inserted fanfic, they should make the character interesting and likeable. So far, I see neither.

Funny thing, I think "Not Starfire" is derivative of an existing character from the Teen Titans cartoons:
https://teentitans.fandom.com/wiki/Control_Freak

When experiencing the wonders of a fictional universe, where godlike superbeings walk amongst humanity -- the shining ideals of virtue and heroism, and everything we should aspire to -- who DOESN'T want to read about one of their ungrateful punk ass kids going through an emo stage?

I mean, besides Jason Todd and Damian Wayne. 'Cause I fvcking love those guys. :tlol:

Does anyone really believe that kids are going to read a book about that character and do anything good with it?

Are they going to aspire to be her? To improve themselves by telling off mommy that they aren't like her?
Or are they going to breath a sigh of relief that they are actually "okay" because they are Just fine just they way they are?

Neither. Because kids or tweens or whatever aren't going to read it. This is creator masturbation for bots and @$$ holes on Twitter.

YouTube is tearing this book apart! I don't know which one to post there are so many in the last few hours! :lol:

I mean, it's for literally nobody. I don't know what else anyone would expect.

I think someone else here said it somewhere too, but it really is like they are trying to bankrupt publishers and rid the market of comics as a business plan or something.

I mean most of this stuff nowadays is so bad that you could make a better comic book by accident than by this design.

That's a ridiculous conspiracy, comics have been on the decline clinging to whatever they can to keep their relevancy and none of that has worked long term. This is only them trying to gain a new audience since the normal audience keeps shrinking. Of course it might have the effect of further shrinking it, but at this point they're willing to try anything.

-sigh-
Dude. LMAO.

Dude.
hahhaha You don't say that they "are trying to put their line out of business" as a conspiracy theory. HAHAHA holy $#!( man.

You say it as sarcasm that someone is doing something so f'd up, and that it's so obviously f'd up that a rational person could only compute it by saying "they must be trying to sabotage their own business!" because you'd refuse to believe that someone could actually be that dumb.

It's a decades old phrase of wild sarcasm as an explanation for stupidity. It's not actually a conspiracy theory. Good God, man. lmfao :lol:

Wait, it's NOT a conspiracy?

$hit. What am I supposed to do with the aluminum tinfoil mentawave helmet I just crafted?

Is penguin the father or are people just trolling? Maybe there's an interesting story there, wasn't starfire a villain for a while a few years ago. Maybe that's why Lucy hates her mother, she's a hero again and she wants to be a villain.

At least the drama with Kory/Dick should be worth a read. I mean cucking with the penguin of all people..then again babs was a cripple.

https://img.fireden.net/co/image/145...4185574926.png

:lol::lol:
Pull a Tim Pool and have it signed by Alex Jones.....

I'd rather read the story of why she hooked up with the Penguin, if that was the case....

The DC Comics Twitter finally did a tweet about this and they set replies only to people DC follows and the people who worked on this ****

Who can reply?
People @DCComics follows and everyone mentioned in the conversation can reply.

This is why they shutdown the dccomics.com back in mid 2012 because 9/10 users did not like the New 52 and were happy with Brightest Day. Then switched to an interactive social media format where it only allowed for ego stroking and ignoring the largely negative responses.


This is from a 2016 article I found. She's even more diverse, she is Canadian.

'Tamaki thinks telling these kinds of stories about minorities is important. She adds “I certainly think as a queer, Asian, chubby teenager I did not see a lot of queer, Asian chubby teenagers hanging out in my library.” She also wants to see stories of immigration and what it means to be First Nations as a greater part of Canadian literature.'