Created on July 20, 2012 and written by TommyZimmer
Category: Comic Book Reviews

Rating: 5/5
Publisher Name: DC Comics
Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Kenneth Rocafort
Number of Pages: 32 pgs.
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP – Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.

Publisher’s Blurb:
“DEAD SPACE” continues!

STARFIRE is unleashed in an epic space battle!

THE OUTLAWS take on BLACKFIRE and her new allies, THE BLIGHT!

Reviewer’s Comments:
Red Hood, Roy Harper, and Starfire pick up their adventures in space, as they make their way to Tamaran. Our heroes must make some tough decisions: Will they protect Tamaran? Will Roy and Koriandr ever get together? What will Mr. Hood do about Isabel? Find out some of these answers and more in the review below.

Scott Lobdell handles this genre flipping comic quite well. Gone is the thought-to-be oversexed female hero, and arriving is the feminist space warrior Starfire! Coming with her on this odyssey are two people who know less about the universe than they do their own Earth. The three heroes find themselves in a fight that none of them want to be in, while they question whether or not they should be warring against the alien planet they are about to visit. These emotions play out nicely nicely in the narrative, especially when it comes down to the last splash-page.

Kenneth Rocafort plays out the panels quite well in this issue. His designs for each character have always worked, but it’s his crazy interchanging page constructions that keep the narrative pumping along nicely. His unique look takes full advantage of every narrative twist and turn the writer has given him. There’s no shortchanging him, he has a very stylized design that carries over to characters that are not quite center-stage yet.

All in all the book stays true to its core even as it shifts focus away from Jason Todd. As the series continues to evolve past its own beginnings this title in the New 52 continues to impress.

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About the Writer: TommyZimmer (133 Posts) Tommy Zimmer is an upcoming writer of short stories, comic books, journalism/media reviews, screenplays, and anything related to writing. He is headquartered in Detroit, MI where he attends University of Detroit Mercy. He is majoring in English Creative Writing with two minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Journalism. He currently helms his "zimmert101" blog at zimmert101.wordpress.com. He also writes for Paper Dragon Ink and Super Powered Fiction, and wrote for Modern Myth Media.

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