Starfire Vol. 2: A Matter of Time

Got the first volume, had to get the second, even if the art is different, it still works well, get this if you want the set really.

Great.

This is a gentler version of the writers’ Harley Quin series, with plenty of nudity, but carefully obscured nudity, and gentler word-play and innuendo.Kory is not quite played for laughs (she’s the star - the people around her are played for laughs), but the humour and outright comedy is reminiscent of the dumb blondes of 1960s comics, but as she is an orange alien with ginger hair, it is obviously non-blondeist, sexist or whatever -ist you object to. The story really is entertaining, the art is cartoony, but then so is the entire story, and it all combines to provide an excellent 1960s comedy/adventure comic-book for the modern comic book reader, but this time written by people who are not 40-years older that their audience.I was quite surprised by how much I liked the first volume, but this one seemed to go on a bit too long with the same intensity of provocatively semi-dressed young ladies and cute animals and aliens. On the plus side, it did have Dick Grayson in it, and “silky” makes his appearance.I think this series might have worked better as a monthly book than as a collection read in one go. It really needed to be diluted by time, much like the Grand Tour tv series, which, by showing us the team doing really, and deliberately, stupid things, just mad them appear stupid instead of entertaining; in the old series, the stupid stuff was diluted by stuff involving cars, and there was a week between episodes, so you could put up with their antics. Here, the intensity of the colour and detail of the art and general silliness just overloads the book. One of these plots would have made an 8 or 10 page Superboy story back in the ‘60s; here it is drawn out for several issues.So, read it slowly and enjoy it more.