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Originally Posted by nakobass

I call BS on this, The comic was Sold Out when I got to the Comic Book Shop. Looking forward to Vol 2 as well. I liked StarFire in Teen Titans, and I really like the StarFire in Redhood and the Outlaws. Why do people have to have a stick up their ass about this. Tony Stark aka Iron Man nailed Pepper Potts and Marie Hill in the Most Wanted storyline, but nobody said anything about it, StarFire and Catwomen do the same thing and they are Sluts, Bull@#$!

"Along with the Justice League announcement, DC revealed that all 12 titles debuting Wednesday have already sold out on the distributor level, and are also going back to press. Even Red Hood and the Outlaws."

Jesus Christ, you couldn't be more of a straw man if you danced around complaining "If I only had a brain."

Nobody is condemning sex in and of itself. NOBODY. Nobody is saying a woman having sex with more than one person is in and of itself "slutty."

But if you don't think just emotionlessly hopping into bed with whoever happens to be available (and who you won't remember later on anyway) because you're "bored" isn't really freaking borderline slutty, then I'd be really curious as to what YOUR definition of a "slut" would be? Why don't you inform us so we can be clear?

If you think taking a reasonably well-liked character that was formerly defined by her emotions and generally positive, healthy expression of sexuality and turning them into an emotionless sexbot isn't going to strike more than a few people as "wrong" then you've got a serious lack of insight into human nature.

If you think writing and drawing comics in a manner designed solely to appeal to 13 year old horndogs is "good comics" then...well, you've made it clear that's what you like, so I suppose that says a lot about your mentality.

And well, yeah...if you think two million isn't a far higher number than 100,000, then you might need some remedial math. The point is that "Teen Titans animated Starfire" is probably the best-known incarnation of that character where the general public is concerned. The point becomes even more sharp when there are OTHER characters in the "Nu-DC" that have undergone changes specifically to make them more like their animated counterparts for exactly that reason (Barbara Gordon Batgirl and Superboy spring immediately to mind). Presenting a version of a character that only superficially resembles the one that most people know is counterproductive to getting fans of that animated character to read the comics and thus, you know...growing your readership beyond the extremely insular and circular buying audience that currently makes up "comic readers."

PS: 100,000 readers is PHENOMENAL for a regular monthly comic title, and every idiot who knows diddly about the comic business knows that "first issues" from the major publishers almost always sell out. Particularly when accompanied by a huge marketing push like DC's "reboot" has been. You want to crow about this book selling out like it's some kind of accomplishment? Come back in about six months and see what the sales numbers say then. I can guarantee you that 6-12 months from now, a good half of these 52 #1 titles are going to be getting canceled despite "sellout" first issues, because they're not going to sustain this momentum past the first couple months at best.

PPS: "Selling out at the distributor level" doesn't mean every copy of the book has sold to a reader.