The Stop Button

With Red Hood and the Outlaws, I feel like DC is drawing a line in the sand. Female readers need not apply. While Lobdell is an awful writer on every level possible, he also gets to be the one to reveal Starfire is a mentally impaired nymphomaniac. She’s genetically incapable of forming long term memories about humans (all Tamaraneans are) and so she has sex with everyone she can. I’m not sure, but there’s a question of whether she’s able to give consent.

It doesn’t stop Lobdell and artist Kenneth Rocafort from objectifying her, in fact it seems to encourage them.

Lobdell isn’t able to distinguish between his male characters (Jason Todd and Roy Harper) so Rocafort has the job of making them look different enough.

Jokes about Lobdell’s terrible writing aside, there’s something seriously wrong with DC thinking this comic is all right in the way it portrays women.

CREDITS

I Fought the Law and Kicked its Butt!; writer, Scott Lobdell; artist, Kenneth Rocafort; colorist, Blond; letterer, Carlos M. Mangual; editors, Katie Kubert and Bobbie Chase; publisher, DC Comics.