what if amelia bedelia was hot and had supergirl's powers? ( )

If I'm not mistaken (totally could be), this series takes place after Red Hood, so I'm a little confused about the way Starfire is portrayed, but overall, I still enjoyed it. It was a fun and lighthearted volume to read, and I'm looking forward to the next one. ( )

Hmm. My read status says November 9th to 20th. I read these as individual comics. But I thought I’d been reading them longer than since the 9th. Ah well.

Okay – Starfire – This is not a character I have much experience with. She was in a Red Hood comic series, but I either read only one issue or one volume, I forget which. Whichever it was, she didn’t exactly impress me in that series. Shown as being dim-witted and easily taken advantage of (at least in the tiny section I read). It’s possible that she has popped up elsewhere that I saw (like, I know she was on an animated cartoon, but I did not watch that, and have no clue what decade that appeared). So, long and short of it is that this really is my first exposure to the orange woman from another planet.

So, something of a back-story was given but it mostly flew over my head. Something like she was a princess on some planet in a far galaxy, there were troubles, she left. Landed on earth in the Florida Keys. She popped up on Earth’s radar around the time a hurricane attacked the Keys. She helped defeat said hurricane. Then there were several monsters that popped up. A bounty hunter. Some guy with glowing eyes. She runs into three people who she inserts herself into their lives – a police officer, her coast guard brother, and Terra. Now Terra I’ve run across several times before. One or more versions (there might have been two different versions) in different Power Girl runs, and some series that came out with the New 52 that had a bunch of different people running around, kids, connected to some conspiracy or something. I have liked at least one version of Terra (when she was with Power Girl, and showed her her home under the earth). She’s kind of different here.

These side characters that pop up in other people’s comics are kind of hard to track. Especially when they get changed over the years and new versions pop up. Granted, sometimes ‘side characters’ get their own long running series and get ‘fixed’ in people’s minds (with alterations here and there). Like Batgirl spent most of her existence as a side character inside the Batman universe before finally getting her own self-titled comic series. And Harley Quinn started off as a one bit joke on an animated series, and morphed into a character with her own series. Heck, at this exact moment she is in either two or three series. Two of which have her name on them (Harley Quinn; Harley Quinn and Power Girl). One doesn’t. I’m not sure if she is still in the Suicide Squad. I never read it, and now it says “New Suicide Squad” so maybe the characters changed. I kind of hampered myself there, since characters from that squad sometimes appear, like Deadshot (or whatever his name is, Deadbolt?). So, maybe, someday Terra will get her own series. There is something of a story that could be told that gets glimpsed at each time she pops up in other people’s works.

Of course this series is Starfire’s. This, I think, is her first self-titled series. So far there have been only six issues. Ah. The description says “first ever solo series”. So. Yeah, that.

As I read the six issues, I kept being reminded of Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy, mostly the movie since I’ve only read a few separate issues here and there. Starfire, and the bounty hunter, would fit perfectly in that Guardians of the Galaxy series. More so than she fits into the type of universe as seen from other aliens on earth in the DC Universe (i.e., Superman). At some point I wanted to work in the inability to understand metaphors, like Drax, but – other than bluntly saying it like this, I couldn’t think of a way to say it.

I liked the six issues, though they seemed a little disjointed. And vaguely confusing. I’ll probably continue, though there’s every chance I’ll stop here. Now that I’ve reached a full volume’s worth of issues. ( )