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Why the new Starfire upsets a porno artist
14 years ago
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I've been hesitant to comment on the changes done to Starfire for the DCnU before because, let's face it, I DRAW PORN. I am best known to most online as a wank artist, drawing stuff designed for one-handed websurfing. Let's face it, I have stuff in my sketchbooks OF STARFIRE HERSELF worse than anything DC will ever publish. So why the Hell would I object to DC basically making Kory (or "Kori" as she now calls herself...I know, big whoop) OFFICIALLY into wank material?
Because it's not Starfire. It's not the character who was one of my first "comic crushes," the character who I used to daydream about meeting. Yeah, totally pathetic, I know, a confession that makes me just another one of "those types." I don't care, though. My journal, my prerogative.
Kory was friggin' love incarnate. She was lusty, sexy, fanservice-tastic...when you're co-created by George Perez, it's almost a given...but she was also sweet, loving, even innocent in her own way. There was more of the Kory I was nuts about in her G-rated "Teen Titans GO!" cartoon version than is in this dead-eyed caricature fucking her way through former sidekicks now. I WANT to believe that there's a story here, something to explain this drastic, horrible lobotomy of her past personality, some explanation as to why someone who had to have Dick Grayson break up with her because she couldn't accept that he didn't love her as deeply as she did him is now claiming to not even remember his name. Maybe I answered my own speculation there; God only knows, I know a lot about the damage having someone you've sworn your life to reject you outright can do to you now. Maybe it broke her mind, and the story will involve her discovering this and rejecting this cold fuck-toy personality...not a good alternative, but one I prefer to this being her new status quo.
My mascot character is Maisy, and her sister Zoe is arguably my best-known creation. The pair of them are derived from an exploration of Starfire's background, the one being used as an excuse for her current personality, a former slave who, after formative years full of sexual abuse, is now free to try and find a life beyond being someone's forced wank-rag. With my own past, this has always been something close to my heart, the idea that someone can define themselves beyond the abuse they lived through; this is one of the things that endeared the original Starfire to me.
So, yeah...people have already told me to shut up, that this isn't "MY" DCU anymore. Now that I've read "Red Hood & The Outlaws" and what Scott Lobdell did to Starfire, I believe it.
Because it's not Starfire. It's not the character who was one of my first "comic crushes," the character who I used to daydream about meeting. Yeah, totally pathetic, I know, a confession that makes me just another one of "those types." I don't care, though. My journal, my prerogative.
Kory was friggin' love incarnate. She was lusty, sexy, fanservice-tastic...when you're co-created by George Perez, it's almost a given...but she was also sweet, loving, even innocent in her own way. There was more of the Kory I was nuts about in her G-rated "Teen Titans GO!" cartoon version than is in this dead-eyed caricature fucking her way through former sidekicks now. I WANT to believe that there's a story here, something to explain this drastic, horrible lobotomy of her past personality, some explanation as to why someone who had to have Dick Grayson break up with her because she couldn't accept that he didn't love her as deeply as she did him is now claiming to not even remember his name. Maybe I answered my own speculation there; God only knows, I know a lot about the damage having someone you've sworn your life to reject you outright can do to you now. Maybe it broke her mind, and the story will involve her discovering this and rejecting this cold fuck-toy personality...not a good alternative, but one I prefer to this being her new status quo.
My mascot character is Maisy, and her sister Zoe is arguably my best-known creation. The pair of them are derived from an exploration of Starfire's background, the one being used as an excuse for her current personality, a former slave who, after formative years full of sexual abuse, is now free to try and find a life beyond being someone's forced wank-rag. With my own past, this has always been something close to my heart, the idea that someone can define themselves beyond the abuse they lived through; this is one of the things that endeared the original Starfire to me.
So, yeah...people have already told me to shut up, that this isn't "MY" DCU anymore. Now that I've read "Red Hood & The Outlaws" and what Scott Lobdell did to Starfire, I believe it.
You are also 100% correct, not only was she one of the great loves of Dick's life, HE was one of the great loves (if not THE Great Love) of HER life. Like I said, Dick was the one who finally broke things off permanently between them, and she was left in tears over it (but not crying openly, since she was the one who told him to make a decision whether he loved her or not). It's one of the reasons she was such a trusted friend of noted family men Adam Strange and Buddy "Animal Man" Baker, since she had such a respect for the idea of monogamy; Hell, in the latter case, it was why she basically LIVED with him and his family after the two of them returned to Earth following "52." I mean, they even made a joke about Buddy's wife trying to wrap her mind around the fact that Kory had no interest in him despite having to be repeatedly reminded to put a damn shirt on (although that bit of personality regression was kinda part of her ongoing derailment...even a borderline nudist like Kory had always shown enough sense to not flash her tatas at kids before).
This new Starfire I wouldn't trust alone in a pet shop, much less with a couple of kids.
Well I've never been a big fan of Starfire honestly (or really any of the second generation Titans asides Dick and Wally) so I really don't know all that much about the character outside of what I already brought up. However I do think it was a huge mistake changing the way Starfire views her past relationships, especially given how major her relationship with Dick was in the DC universe and that she was with the Titans for several years on and off. I also think it was a mistake pairing her up in a group with Jason and Roy, I mean I can get Arsenal and Red Hood being together in a group given Roy's behavior recently during Rise and Fall but I Starfire doesn't really match the theme the Outlaws are kinda following (yes I know about her past, still don't think it fits in). Honestly I would have prefered Ravager to have Kory's spot since as a character she's a bit more relateable to the other two and she doesn't have any noticeable powers, I mean it's not like they're using her for the Titans anymore and it makes more sense then her running around in Superboy.
alternately she could be nailing all the boy wonders to get info on their mentors and stage a big knockoff play to let her people...hell, i dunno, but i like it about 80 times better than "oh, and we made the females sluittier because we figured you'd like that". and did that guy up there say she's "blind" now? how did the guy proposing that one not get fired?