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

[Andrew NDB]

Just... go and see. Yeesh.

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

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

[neatoman]

... 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.

[Autbot_Benz]

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

[oldmanwinters]

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

[Leo656]

Whaaaaaat the f*ck.

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

Garbage.

[Andrew NDB]

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.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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

[CyberCubed]

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

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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.

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. That's "inspiring".

F*cking junk. Fire these people.

[oldmanwinters]

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?

[Leo656]

"The Penguin, obviously" read one of the comments on the article. 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." I'm like DAMN, son.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

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?

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.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

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.

[IMJ]

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.

Originally Posted by Leo656

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

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

[Leo656]

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.

[Allio]

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.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Leo656

"The Penguin, obviously" read one of the comments on the article. 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." I'm like DAMN, son.

Savage.

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

[sdp]

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.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Leo656

The best comment of all, though, was in response to a Mod Edit

Figured it was worth preserving for posterity.

Spoiler:

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

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.