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== Publication history ==
== Publication history ==
Following the events of ''Flashpoint'', The DC universe has been heavily rebooted with Jason Todd as Red Hood becomes the leader of the Outlaws, a team that also includes [[Starfire (comics)|Princess Koriand'r AKA Starfire]] and [[Roy Harper (comics)|Roy Harper AKA Arsenal]]. Starfire as a child was sold into slavery by her sister to supposedly to save her home planet and while she was enslaved she showed violent tendencies by killing a guard in cold blood who had done nothing but offered her help and show remorse toward her. Roy was [[Green Arrow]]'s side kick and publicly had shares in Queen's Company until a very public falling out happened where Roy was left with almost nothing and became a death seeking alcoholic. Until a run in with Killer Croc where Roy was talked out of his suicidal ways; Croc would become his sponsor in recovery but that didn't keep Roy from getting into trouble. <ref name=RHO4>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|penciller=Rocafort, Kenneth |inker=Blond |colorist=Blond |letterer=Brosseau, Pat|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=Come Fly With Me--Come Die, Just Die Away!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=4|date=Febuary, 2012|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref> Jason on the other hand was trained by an order of warriors known as the All Caste after coming back from the dead, they taught him many things including some greater sense of humility and respect.<ref name=RHO3>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|penciller=Rocafort, Kenneth|inker=Blond|colorist=Blond|letterer=Brosseau, Pat|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=Cherish Is The Word I Use-- To Destroy You!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=3|date=January, 2012|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref> Jason was apart of the order for an unknown amount of time before he was exiled, partly of his own will.<ref name=RHO2>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|artist=Rocafort, Kenneth|colorist=Blond|letterer=Mangual, Carlos|editor=Kubert, Katie|story=Shot Through The Heart-- And Who's To Blame?|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=2|date=December, 2011|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref>
At the beginning of the Book it is clear that Jason Todd as Red Hood becomes the leader of the Outlaws, a team that also includes [[Starfire (comics)|Princess Koriand'r]] as Starfire and [[Roy Harper (comics)|Roy Harper]] as Arsenal. Starfire as a child was sold into slavery by her sister to supposedly to save her home planet and while she was enslaved she showed violent tendencies by killing a guard in cold blood who had done nothing but offered her help and show remorse toward her. Roy was [[Green Arrow]]'s side kick and publicly had shares in Queen's Company until a very public falling out happened where Roy was left with almost nothing and became a death seeking alcoholic. Until a run in with Killer Croc where Roy was talked out of his suicidal ways; Croc would become his sponsor in recovery but that didn't keep Roy from getting into trouble. <ref name=RHO4>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|penciller=Rocafort, Kenneth |inker=Blond |colorist=Blond |letterer=Brosseau, Pat|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=Come Fly With Me--Come Die, Just Die Away!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=4|date=Febuary, 2012|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref> Jason on the other hand was trained by an order of warriors known as the All Caste after coming back from the dead, they taught him many things including some greater sense of humility and respect.<ref name=RHO3>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|penciller=Rocafort, Kenneth|inker=Blond|colorist=Blond|letterer=Brosseau, Pat|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=Cherish Is The Word I Use-- To Destroy You!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=3|date=January, 2012|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref> Jason was apart of the order for an unknown amount of time before he was exiled, partly of his own will.<ref name=RHO2>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|artist=Rocafort, Kenneth|colorist=Blond|letterer=Mangual, Carlos|editor=Kubert, Katie|story=Shot Through The Heart-- And Who's To Blame?|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=2|date=December, 2011|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref>


After his exile Jason became Red Hood, returning to Gotham where he came to be odds with Starfire's ex-lover, his predecessor as Robin, [[Dick Grayson]] as well as their mentor [[Batman]]. He soon tires of Gotham and leaves gathering the group together, after after accidentally meeting with Starfire on at her homebase, then breaking out Roy from a Middle Eastern prison.<ref name=RHO5 /> The group then goes to a tropical island as Jason catches Roy up to speed on things; the two start on very friendly terms. It's there that Jason Learns that the All Caste have been slaughtered by a group of beings known as the Untitled and he's the only one who can rectify this. He's told all this by another All Caste Exile named [[Essence (DC Comics)| Essence]], all the while Roy tries to jog Kori's memory but only ends up boring her, he then sleeps with her.<ref name=RHO1>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|penciller=Rocafort, Kenneth|inker=Blond|colorist=Blond|letterer=Mangual, Carlos|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=I Fought the Law and Kicked Its Butt!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=1|date=November, 2011|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref>
After his exile Jason became Red Hood, returning to Gotham where he came to be odds with Starfire's ex-lover, his predecessor as Robin, [[Dick Grayson]] as well as their mentor [[Batman]]. He soon tires of Gotham and leaves gathering the group together, after after accidentally meeting with Starfire on at her homebase, then breaking out Roy from a Middle Eastern prison.<ref name=RHO5 /> The group then goes to a tropical island as Jason catches Roy up to speed on things; the two start on very friendly terms. It's there that Jason Learns that the All Caste have been slaughtered by a group of beings known as the Untitled and he's the only one who can rectify this. He's told all this by another All Caste Exile named [[Essence (DC Comics)| Essence]], all the while Roy tries to jog Kori's memory but only ends up boring her, he then sleeps with her.<ref name=RHO1>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|penciller=Rocafort, Kenneth|inker=Blond|colorist=Blond|letterer=Mangual, Carlos|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=I Fought the Law and Kicked Its Butt!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=1|date=November, 2011|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref>



Jason after finding out he's no longer the killer he once was, proceeds to take his group to the All Caste headquarters where they discover the bodies are returning to life as zombies. Jason is forced to destroy the bodies of his teachers and friends, after some encouragement from Roy; he swears revenge for them after the task is complete. <ref name=RHO2 /> The team is lead on a goose chase across the globe as they comes across a Untitled, who was in hiding in the middle of [[Colorado]]. Jason is left to fight the creature solo after Starfire is attacked by Crux and Roy leaves to assist her, the Untitled tells Jason that they were set up to cross paths, but still fights him. Jason kills the creature strengthening his resolve to take revenge. At the same time Crux attempted to drain Starfires power but fails due to experiments performed on her during her slavery. Roy, alone with just a well thought out plan takes down Crux long enough for Starfire to regain her composure and the three leave taking an unconscious crux with them. <ref name=RHO5>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|artist=Rocafort, Kenneth|colorist=Blond|letterer=Mangual, Carlos|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=I'm Free as a Bird -- And This Bird You Cannot Kill!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=5|date=March, 2012|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref>
Jason after finding out he's no longer the killer he once was, proceeds to take his group to the All Caste headquarters where they discover the bodies are returning to life as zombies. Jason is forced to destroy the bodies of his teachers and friends, after some encouragement from Roy; he swears revenge for them after the task is complete. <ref name=RHO2 /> The team is lead on a goose chase across the globe as they comes across a Untitled, who was in hiding in the middle of [[Colorado]]. Jason is left to fight the creature solo after Starfire is attacked by Crux and Roy leaves to assist her, the Untitled tells Jason that they were set up to cross paths, but still fights him. Jason kills the creature strengthening his resolve to take revenge. At the same time Crux attempted to drain Starfires power but fails due to experiments performed on her during her slavery. Roy, alone with just a well thought out plan takes down Crux long enough for Starfire to regain her composure and the three leave taking an unconscious crux with them. <ref name=RHO5>{{cite comic|writer=Lobdell, Scott|artist=Rocafort, Kenneth|colorist=Blond|letterer=Mangual, Carlos|editor=Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert|story=I'm Free as a Bird -- And This Bird You Cannot Kill!|title=Red Hood and the Outlaws|volume=1|issue=5|date=March, 2012|publisher=DC Comics|location=New York}}</ref>

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Red Hood and the Outlaws
Cover for Red Hood and the Outlaws #1.
Art by Kenneth Rocafort and Blond.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
ScheduleMonthly
FormatOngoing
Publication dateSeptember 2011 – present
No. of issues6 (As of February 2012)
Main character(s)
Creative team
Created byScott Lobdell
Kenneth Rocafort
Written byScott Lobdell
Penciller(s)Kenneth Rocafort
Inker(s)Blond
Colorist(s)Blond

Red Hood and the Outlaws is a DC Comics superhero team title launched as part of The New 52 event in 2011. It is a team title featuring Red Hood, Arsenal and Starfire. Its initial writer is Scott Lobdell, with art by Kenneth Rocafort.[1]

Publication history

At the beginning of the Book it is clear that Jason Todd as Red Hood becomes the leader of the Outlaws, a team that also includes Princess Koriand'r as Starfire and Roy Harper as Arsenal. Starfire as a child was sold into slavery by her sister to supposedly to save her home planet and while she was enslaved she showed violent tendencies by killing a guard in cold blood who had done nothing but offered her help and show remorse toward her. Roy was Green Arrow's side kick and publicly had shares in Queen's Company until a very public falling out happened where Roy was left with almost nothing and became a death seeking alcoholic. Until a run in with Killer Croc where Roy was talked out of his suicidal ways; Croc would become his sponsor in recovery but that didn't keep Roy from getting into trouble. [2] Jason on the other hand was trained by an order of warriors known as the All Caste after coming back from the dead, they taught him many things including some greater sense of humility and respect.[3] Jason was apart of the order for an unknown amount of time before he was exiled, partly of his own will.[4]

After his exile Jason became Red Hood, returning to Gotham where he came to be odds with Starfire's ex-lover, his predecessor as Robin, Dick Grayson as well as their mentor Batman. He soon tires of Gotham and leaves gathering the group together, after after accidentally meeting with Starfire on at her homebase, then breaking out Roy from a Middle Eastern prison.[5] The group then goes to a tropical island as Jason catches Roy up to speed on things; the two start on very friendly terms. It's there that Jason Learns that the All Caste have been slaughtered by a group of beings known as the Untitled and he's the only one who can rectify this. He's told all this by another All Caste Exile named Essence, all the while Roy tries to jog Kori's memory but only ends up boring her, he then sleeps with her.[6]

Jason after finding out he's no longer the killer he once was, proceeds to take his group to the All Caste headquarters where they discover the bodies are returning to life as zombies. Jason is forced to destroy the bodies of his teachers and friends, after some encouragement from Roy; he swears revenge for them after the task is complete. [4] The team is lead on a goose chase across the globe as they comes across a Untitled, who was in hiding in the middle of Colorado. Jason is left to fight the creature solo after Starfire is attacked by Crux and Roy leaves to assist her, the Untitled tells Jason that they were set up to cross paths, but still fights him. Jason kills the creature strengthening his resolve to take revenge. At the same time Crux attempted to drain Starfires power but fails due to experiments performed on her during her slavery. Roy, alone with just a well thought out plan takes down Crux long enough for Starfire to regain her composure and the three leave taking an unconscious crux with them. [5]

Reception

Controversy

In his review of Red Hood and the Outlaws, Jesse Schedeen of IGN.com notes that Kenneth Rocafort's pencilling affords Scott Lobdell the opportunity to emphasize Starfire's sex appeal: "She alone seems to have been completely rebooted for the relaunch. Lobdell's decision to write her as being more cold and hostile is fine, but he does over-emphasize her sexuality a bit. Yes, Starfire is meant to be a sexually liberated character, but in a more positive way than shown here."[7]

An additional review of the comic's first Issue has indicated further criticism for what Mathew Peterson of MajorSpoilers.com calls a "juvenile treatment of sexual matters here renders one of the main characters into nothing more than a punchline, and in a book with only three characters, that’s unforgivable,"[8] referring specifically to its sexualized portrayal of Starfire as a "'perfect-10 love doll imaginary girlfriend'".[8] Andrew Hunsaker of Craveonline.com notes that story writer Lobdell's take on Tamaraneans (Starfire's race) "reduce(s) Princess Koriand'r... into essentially a highly advanced Real Doll...(C)omplete with installing a lack of memory of anything related to humanity.".[9] Hunsaker further opines that it "seems as if Lobdell has taken great pains to strip all the emotional motivation behind Kori's gregarious outlook and reduce her to nothing more than a sex vessel. It's pretty insulting not only to women, but to male intelligence to boot."[9] Hunsaker concludes that it "makes you want to punch the entire comic book industry."[9]

Laura Hudson, editor-in-chief of ComicsAlliance notes that "There's a difference between writing a female character as sexually liberated, and writing her as wish-fulfillment sex object, but Starfire sure is making a case for the latter in (a) charmless scene"[10] wherein Starfire defends her offer to have sex with one of the characters by noting that "love has nothing to do with it".[6] Hudson further notes in a later article that portrayals of women as sexual objects "don't support sexually liberated women; they undermine them".[11] Hudson also notes "If you really want to support Starfire's "liberated sexuality" like she's somehow a person with real agency, what people should really be campaigning for is more half-clothed dudes in suggestive poses to get drawn around her, since I'm sure that's what she'd like to see. But people don't really want that, do they? Because it's not about what Starfire wants. It's about what straight male readers want. And they want to see Starfire with her clothes falling off." [11]

Houston Press writer Jef With One F counters that the criticism was premature.[12] The story imagines "the point of view of someone who (did not grow) up here with our Western social norms." "Aliens not understanding nudity taboos is at least as old as Heinlein's Stranger and a Strange Land (sic)…(and) Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen... humans are little more than passing sights and smells, but for Starfire Todd and Harper somehow stand out and matter to her." Far from being "a sex toy, she's someone from a very different culture attracted to two specific men."

References

  1. ^ Rogers, Vaneta (June 8, 2011). "LOBDELL Goes for Redemption in DCnU RED HOOD & the OUTLAWS". Newsarama. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
  2. ^ Lobdell, Scott (w), Rocafort, Kenneth (p), Blond (i), Blond (col), Brosseau, Pat (let), Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert (ed). "Come Fly With Me--Come Die, Just Die Away!" Red Hood and the Outlaws, vol. 1, no. 4 (Febuary, 2012). New York: DC Comics.
  3. ^ Lobdell, Scott (w), Rocafort, Kenneth (p), Blond (i), Blond (col), Brosseau, Pat (let), Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert (ed). "Cherish Is The Word I Use-- To Destroy You!" Red Hood and the Outlaws, vol. 1, no. 3 (January, 2012). New York: DC Comics.
  4. ^ a b Lobdell, Scott (w), Rocafort, Kenneth (a), Blond (col), Mangual, Carlos (let), Kubert, Katie (ed). "Shot Through The Heart-- And Who's To Blame?" Red Hood and the Outlaws, vol. 1, no. 2 (December, 2011). New York: DC Comics.
  5. ^ a b Lobdell, Scott (w), Rocafort, Kenneth (a), Blond (col), Mangual, Carlos (let), Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert (ed). "I'm Free as a Bird -- And This Bird You Cannot Kill!" Red Hood and the Outlaws, vol. 1, no. 5 (March, 2012). New York: DC Comics.
  6. ^ a b Lobdell, Scott (w), Rocafort, Kenneth (p), Blond (i), Blond (col), Mangual, Carlos (let), Bobbie Chase, Katie Kubert (ed). "I Fought the Law and Kicked Its Butt!" Red Hood and the Outlaws, vol. 1, no. 1 (November, 2011). New York: DC Comics.
  7. ^ Schedeen, Jesse. "Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 Review Jason Todd assembles his own team of rogue heroes". Comics/Reviews. IGN.com. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  8. ^ a b Peterson, Matthew. ""New 52" Review". Reviews. MajorSpoilers.com. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  9. ^ a b c Hunsacker, Andrew. "New 52 Review: Red Hood and the Outlaws #1". Comics/Reviews. Craveonline.com. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  10. ^ Hudson, Laura. "Parting Shot: DC's New Starfire, WTF". Opinion. ComicsAlliance.com. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  11. ^ a b Hudson, Laura. "The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their 'Liberated Sexuality'". Opinion. ComicsAlliance.com. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  12. ^ With One F, Jef (February 6, 2012). "Hellfire and Sweater Meat: In Defense of DC's Starfire Reboot". Opinion. Houston Press. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
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