Take the intentionally retarded cultural stupidity of the main character in the TV show "Bones", whip with equally stupid lefty political tropes, and .....don't even bother reading it.

This superhero comic book is so... nice. That's what I would call 'Starfire, Vol. 1: Welcome Home' in one word.It's just such a breath of fresh air to dive into something superhero related these days that is positive, where people are nice, and isn’t "dark and gritty" (which has quickly become synonymous with “lazy and boring”) and caught up in catering to stunted male adolescent power fantasies. Don't get me wrong, there exist excellent serious, realistic storylines about superheroes - ones tha...

Overall, this was a missed opportunity for DC. Over the past few years Starfire has been a dark character in the comics who was put into a lot of sexual and drug related situations, which didn't match how the character was depicted in the TV shows Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go. As a result, DC missed a huge opportunity to turn fans of these shows into fans of their comics.With this volume, DC has decided to make Starfire a light-hearted character. She is basically a fish-out-of-water who is sti...

So I was on the fence about reading this for quite some time but when I saw that Elsa Charretier was the artist for a majority of the second volume, I knew I had to jump on it and I'm so glad that I did. Starfire as a character is hilarious, and sure, at times she can be a little ditsy, but it's endearing as hell. Conner writes some punchy and hilarious dialogue, accompanied by a really interesting story. I flew through this in less than a day! Definitely recommend for fans of Harley Quinn.

I ... wasn't a fan. This could be because I was coming fresh off reading volume one of red hood and the outlaws where starfire is a very confident bad ass. But in this she's silly, dippy, and at times not consistent with her new 52 personality. How exactly does she not know what a tropical fish looks like -- when she was living on a tropical island? It was just messy and more silly than carrying any real substance for starfire. I get that she's supposed to have this unquestionable compassion, bu...

I admit, I cringed when I saw this book. I hated what Lobdell did with Starfire in Red Hood, and I didn't want to see more of it. I'm glad that I read some reviews that assured me that really, this is nothing like that. This is much more like the version of Starfire in the wonderful Teen Titans cartoon, and I loved that take on the character. The result is a book that's bright (figuratively and literally, it's very colorful) and largely cheerful, which is, I think, exactly the right way to view

I don't know, I kind of liked this a lot. I think I just have a soft spot for anything with Starfire. Yes, she's kind of dumb here ... but in an endearing way.

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 tha...

Perfection! One of the best DC Comics trades I've read in the past few years. Conner and Lupaccino are sublime together.

After an extremely questionable reboot of Starfire in the Nu52 universe, Conner and Palmiotti have been allowed to re-reboot her into something a bit more like her famous Cartoon Network persona. She's an adult, but largely ignorant of earth (and particularly American) culture. She can learn language through physical contact, but struggles with idioms (often her thought bubbles illustrate what she imagines when somebody says 'give me a hand'). She is at different points adorable and brave, and a...

This is really good!! Amanda Connor and Jimmy Palmiotti bring you a great one-off story of Starfire on her own in...Key West!? This story presents a fun story of what makes Starfire a fan favorite character in her own right and should not be only regulated to teen titans titles.Recommended to any comics fan who remembers Starfire from either the teen titans cartoon or read Marv Wolfman and George Perez's 80's New Teen Titans run.

I wish more DC books are like this!This book is fun, how can it not be it's written by the same duo of Conner/Palmiotti that does Harley Quinn. When they announced the DCYou I was fairly skeptical but I also new that DC REALLY needed a tone change for some titles to broaden their reader appeal, enter Starfire.World: The art is gorgeous, it's full of personality and character. The character models are gorgeous the backgrounds are different and all it's own (due mainly to the locale, there are not...

(B+) 77% | GoodNotes: It's skin-deep, slight, but bright and sweet, all setup-punchline-rinse-repeat: stitched Sunday funnies to a risqué beat.

My only experiences with Starfire before was a random New 52 issue where she popped in for a hot minute but mostly, I enjoyed her character a lot in the Teen Titan cartoon I watched as a kid. This Starfire reminded me very much of the cartoon Starfire, where she has difficulty understanding colloquialisms and is definitely a fish out of water. Her thought bubbles that pop up whenever someone uses a phrase that she doesn't know were entertaining, and I thought she was a pretty funny character to

I got this comic Christmas ‘16 from my mom and it was sitting untouched in my comic drawer since. Starfire gave me the impression she was aimed for little kids due to her Teen Titans Go! character. Boy, have I ever been wrong.This run simply made Starfire one of my favorite DC heroines. Period. It captures her story fully and you don’t need to know a single detail about her before reading this. You understand why she is the way she is (naive to say the least) and why she wants to change that.The...

Starfire moves to Key West to live as a normal human. Much of the series focuses on how she takes everything literally, as she doesn't understand idioms. I just watched John Carpenter's Starman the other day and this feels a lot like that movie, at least in how Jeff Bridges interacts with the world. Power Girl's sidekick from Conner and Palmiotti's Power Girl series joins the cast as well. Having super powered individuals show up in Key West is a real stretch. It's a sleepy little area with not

I Want to Live Like Common People...This has been my first encounter with Starfire, so let’s see what Wikipedia has to say: “She was ranked 20th in Comics Buyer's Guide's ‘100 Sexiest Women in Comics’ list.” Huh. Anything else I need to know?Thankfully, this first volume provides a brief origin of our heroine. As it turns out, her home planet was invaded by aliens, Starfire shipped off into slavery, yada yada yada, she ends up in a small coastal town called Key West on good ol' Planet Earth. Unf...

This was an absolute delight to read, I’m a huge Starfire fan so a solo series dedicated to her is a must read for me. This is a fun slice of life series that focuses on Kori moving to key west Florida, it’s the same writing team from the new 52 Harley Quinn so the set up is similar. The writers do a great job at writing Kori, they went with a personality more akin to her cartoon version rather than her usual comic version which wasn’t a problem for me (anything is better than the outlaws versio...

Cute, fluffy attempt to launch Starfire as a solo heroine.Nice that they choose a different local for her knew home, and a decent supporting cast, but the whole time you are reading, you are constantly distracted by how does this version jibe with the previous version of Starfire?Did I miss a story?Glad that DC is undoing the horrible sexbot version from 'Red Hood', but it feels a bit lazy and in the end it feels like every other Armada Conner heroine story.Noble effort, but a kind of blah resul...

I wanted so badly to love this...I mean, it's StarFire's first solo run! However, this volume sets up a murky timeline and a watered down heroine. Kori decides she wants to learn more about the human world, kind of hints at her time with the Teen Titans...but Kori still doesn't understand basic human etiquette such as not being naked in front of other people. For being such a short run series, the first half collected in this volume did little to impress. Instead of Kori kicking ass it focuses o...