The book goes out of the way to dress Starfire skimpier than usual, and in one scene in which she’s dressed like a housewife from the fifties frilly apron, high heels and all, they make a point to cut her head out of the shot, and it goes from Starfire in a cute outfit to objectifying her in contrast to her “cool” daughter. The book does everything possible to demonize Starfire for being traditionally feminine whilst being a powerful female role model. In stark contrast to Mandy’s, and I hesitate to call it rebellion, is her mother, the free-spirited Space-Viking and beating heart of The Teen Titans. The book carries weak and basic undertones of rebellion shown in Mandy’s goth attire and her best friend labelling himself an anarchist.
Starfire Is A Better Role model For Young Women. The high school drama mixed with Mandy’s rude outbursts to everybody she knows is just yawn-inducing. She resents her mother for being a famous hero because people only tend to see her as Starfire’s kid This could have been an exciting concept if the writer exercised more restraint and subtly but since they couldn’t be bothered to either this book is bad, and I almost fell asleep reading it twice thankfully I had some powerful coffee to help me power on through. Mandy whines, bitches, and throws a tantrum through over a hundred pages until the story’s villain makes her appearance. Mandy lacks the charm of her contemporary counterparts like Miles Morales (The New Spider-Man), who has been handled with such care by amazing talent recently demonstrated in the beloved blockbuster Into The Spider-Verse and the smash hit PlayStation Game Spider-Man: Miles Morales. This book goes for about one hundred pages before any significant plot developments happen, committing two cardinal sins of writing by leaving the reader bored and by making us follow a completely unlikable protagonist. I Am Not Starfire is a coming of age story of Mandy Anders, the subhuman gremlin spawn of Starfire, and I’m guessing Dick Grayson. Sometimes I feel like we’re living in Bizarro World when I see poor quality content like this pushed out and genuinely great ideas from talented creatives go ignored, but we are living in strange times, dear reader. Somewhere on the depths of the internet is a Harry Potter Fan-fiction called My Immortal so infamously bad it’s become the poster child for poorly written self insert stories I Am Not Starfire is that given a budget and backing by DC Comics. I Haven’t Read Something This Bad Since ‘My Immortal.’
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