What the heck is that all about? Doublet and hose with a slouch hat and cowl? And elf boots? What's more, this is not a deliberate embracing of the bizarre, a la Alan Scott - this is a sort of uniform for a caste of warrior priests. Look:
They're wearing the same stuff, except that one guy has no hat and that other guy has a really big cone (a stovepipe fez?) on his head. What's up with that - can you fight wearing that? Or is he a coach or something? At least here they seem to have switched to sweat pants for training.
Blockade Boy, can you help us out on this?
Anyway, the rest of the contents of Starfire No. 1 are so wretched and pedestrian that they don't bear much elaboration. Slave girl is supposed to marry horrible alien overlord, slave girl escapes, slave girl is trained by outlaw priest as a fighter, priest is killed, slave girl becomes rebel leader, and wacky hijinx ensue. This is so bad, I can't believe it actually lasted eight issues or so, even in the seventies.
Trivia: I wrote almost this entire post before I remembered that Starfire is also Koriand'r's Teen Titan name. Really.
They're wearing the same stuff, except that one guy has no hat and that other guy has a really big cone (a stovepipe fez?) on his head. What's up with that - can you fight wearing that? Or is he a coach or something? At least here they seem to have switched to sweat pants for training.
Blockade Boy, can you help us out on this?
Anyway, the rest of the contents of Starfire No. 1 are so wretched and pedestrian that they don't bear much elaboration. Slave girl is supposed to marry horrible alien overlord, slave girl escapes, slave girl is trained by outlaw priest as a fighter, priest is killed, slave girl becomes rebel leader, and wacky hijinx ensue. This is so bad, I can't believe it actually lasted eight issues or so, even in the seventies.
Trivia: I wrote almost this entire post before I remembered that Starfire is also Koriand'r's Teen Titan name. Really.
2 comments:
Zowie. Dagan looks like he belongs in an entirely different book. He ought to be wearing little more than a furry loincloth and iron arm bands, right? At least the narration realizes what an outre outfit it is.
As for the stovepipe fez: Let Moebius do Moebius, people.
Hey, this comic says that I am called Starfire. That's not true! I'm Bully.
You can't trust comics that get your name wrong!
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