Starfire's Lingerie -Erm, Costume Redesign

DC Comics revealed the covers and solicits to many of their upcoming September books earlier today. Amongst these titles was the cover and solicit for "Red Hood and the Outlaws." Unfortunately, I didn't even notice Jason Todd or Arsenal because I was too focused on trying to understand how the hell Starfire's costume is staying on. I settled on anti-gravity double sided space tape. That's the only way that top would work. I also like how she's wearing shoulder pads (why?) but she leaves her chest and stomach open for an easy target. Because you know, all your vital organs are in your shoulders so you need to wear shoulder pads.

What are you doing, DC Comics. Seriously.

@Babs: Just for future outfits, can you find out where she gets this tape? Obviously its doing the job!

It reminds me of those old panel van art fantasy girls

Oh look. She looks trashy. Im so surprised... What a shame <_>

She wears even less than she did before.

God damn it, that was going to be this week's The Crowbar Swings...
 
And Babs she's an alien for all we know all her vital organs are in her shoulders!

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves. 

Wow, they managed to make her costume MORE skimpy…I didn't think that was possible.

Congrats DC, you did the impossible…and made me even LESS likely to get this comic.

@ragdollpurps said:

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves.

Surely though, much like any other alien she can realise that perhaps covering up your boobies is a nicer way to go? ;)

I'm more disturbed by the green baseball cap.

@ragdollpurps said:

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves.

And she hasn't spent enough time on earth yet or anything, right?

@TheCrowbar said:

And Babs she's an alien for all we know all her vital organs are in her shoulders!

TOUCHE!

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves. 

I like it

@ragdollpurps said:

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves.

Surely though, much like any other alien she can realise that perhaps covering up your boobies is a nicer way to go? ;)

@ragdollpurps said:

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves.

And she hasn't spent enough time on earth yet or anything, right?

I like it....I do not however like Roy's hat....he should have kept the drug habit, dead cat, and robot arm

This is a terrible design. Just awful. 
 
This is even less than the typical chainmail bikini.

I have absolutely no problem with it :P

There's always glue: 

Wow. Looks like she got the MK9 treatment as well...

@ragdollpurps: Double standards? Huh?

DC openly decided to redesign all their female characters to wear more clothing, so the fact that Kory is wearing less was a little bit of a shocker.

Also, you can be cool with it, more power to you, but I don't have to be and I think I'm entitled to my opinion. I really don't understand the functionality of her redesigned costume and I pointed out why above. That's my opinion. And "slut shaming"? I don't think there's any "slut shaming" going on in this thread. No one's trashing Kory for the number of sex partners she's had, we're having a discussion about the publisher's decision on her costume redesign.

is it practical? no 
 
does it make sense? yes, its Starfire!!!! hello people i think that after a good 20 (real time not comic time) years or so we've established that dosnt give a rats behind about clothes,
and seeing how in this series it looks like she's just going to be doing street level stuff  i would think the bullet proof super strong alien chick will be okay.  i quite honestly have more of a problem with her MELTING A DUDES FACE!!!!!!1  is that standard Starfire methodology? 
 
 

if it was anyone other than babs, i would think that they were just venting starfire hate. but babs would never do that................

Namor got away with it for years, don't see why Starfire can't. Since it actually makes sense for both characters, besides Kory really has no need for armor, she's durable enough. And like Ragdollpurps said we know nothing about her backstory yet, if she just landed on earth it makes perfect sense.

O_O  
 
My mind is now, quite by accident, literally trying to figure out how this is staying up. . . It's not possible. 

O_O   My mind is now, quite by accident, literally trying to figure out how this is staying up. . . It's not possible. 

What if this outfit is a normal Tamaranian outfit that she was happening to wear and hasn't had time to change. We are judging the cover when we don't even know the story behind it. 

I can't agree with the majority here, sorry. I don't see this as any " less " than her more well known costume, just a variation of that, hence no shock here.
The shoulder pads are gawdy in my personal opinion though, but an obvious variation on her collar piece either way.

To be honest, I don't see anything wrong with her new costume. Kory is known to wear ridiculous outfits.

 My main concern is why she even joining Jason Todd's group? She's doesn't really seem anti-hero material imo.

@ragdollpurps: Double standards? Huh?

DC openly decided to redesign all their female characters to wear more clothing, so the fact that Kory is wearing less was a little bit of a shocker.

Also, you can be cool with it, more power to you, but I don't have to be and I think I'm entitled to my opinion. I really don't understand the functionality of her redesigned costume and I pointed out why above. That's my opinion. And "slut shaming"? I don't think there's any "slut shaming" going on in this thread. No one's trashing Kory for the number of sex partners she's had, we're having a discussion about the publisher's decision on her costume redesign.

Just a heads up:
2 lovers does not a slut make.

I never got why females in comics wear so little sure it'd distract a guy like Hercules but its so not right for crime fighting lol .

For all we know, Villians attack whenever Kory is walking to a pool.

Well, its not that bad. It looks like emma frosts old outfit from Morrison's run on the X-Men.   Tameranians are less inhibited than humans are.  It fits her personality. 

I'm almost positive that her costume from the waist up is copied from either an Awesome character or an Image character from the '90s, can't remember who but it looks super familiar especially the shoulder pads. 
 
While it does fit the characters personality at least back in the New Titans days when she was a model and semi-nudist DC toned her down a great deal especially when Teen Titans Go was being made cause she wouldn't have been a good role model for kids but it is total BS that DC goes and announces that all females character will be more conservative and that there would be no more skirts and then they make changes across the board yet somehow a single D-list character gets to stick with a skippy outfit, that little outfit makes skirts look pretty conservative in comparison, boggles the mind with some of the decisions they are making for this relaunch.

She's secretly a telepath and us always concentrating to keep her clothes on. 

Makes sense... Her being Tamaranian and all. They don't have the normal inhibitions that human society has placed on ourselves. 

Don't worry, she's just a detraction from Mr. Dick'n'Balls, or, protruding camel-toe, at the top in the black pants..

I think she wears a heavy burden and a cold shoulder.. never mind her space boobs. While trying not to look like your average pig, when I'm trying my damndest not to.... I'd be lying if based on an immediate reaction, I didn't think....

But is that what the artist had in mind? Of course. While I don't have any seasoning in the comic world, I can say.. that outfit grabs a novice attention, but while you may have my immediate notice.. nothing can compensate for a little depth and imagination. ;) Again while I can't really debate properly without knowing the comic universe, and know Marvel and DC might have nothing to do with one another.. but look at Phoenix. Sexy, without looking too revealing. Then again, is Starfire as established as Phoenix, and are they confident in their story enough to redesign her costume a bit more conservatively?

It's not how revealing her costume is that bothers me, it's really not that much more revealing than any of her previous ones, so much as the fact that it just isn't a very good design.

I think in terms of the redesign (or at least the theme a lot of the redesigns are going for) her most vital organs (at least in terms of sales) are quite visible immediately below her shoulders.  

@bukkookkub said:

Don't worry, she's just a detraction from Mr. Dick'n'Balls, or, protruding camel-toe, at the top in the black pants..

LMFAO! holy crap, I can't believe nobody else is talking about that!

I can't believe that's the real cover image, surely it's a joke, you can clearly see a semi-erect penis and testicles, HAHAHAHA! whoever was the artist for this pic is the best, seriously, I think the clearly outlined male genitalia more then makes up for another skimpy Starfire uniform

@bukkookkub said:

Don't worry, she's just a detraction from Mr. Dick'n'Balls, or, protruding camel-toe, at the top in the black pants..

LMFAO! holy crap, I can't believe nobody else is talking about that!

I can't believe that's the real cover image, surely it's a joke, you can clearly see a semi-erect penis and testicles, HAHAHAHA! whoever was the artist for this pic is the best, seriously, I think the clearly outlined male genitalia more then makes up for another skimpy Starfire uniform

@bukkookkub said:

Don't worry, she's just a detraction from Mr. Dick'n'Balls, or, protruding camel-toe, at the top in the black pants..

LMFAO! holy crap, I can't believe nobody else is talking about that!

I can't believe that's the real cover image, surely it's a joke, you can clearly see a semi-erect penis and testicles, HAHAHAHA! whoever was the artist for this pic is the best, seriously, I think the clearly outlined male genitalia more then makes up for another skimpy Starfire uniform

@Avenging-X-Bolt:

I blame it on Disney.

Oh my god Sara, I'm sorry. :(

Hopefully at this point we can all agree on the ridiculousness of this art direction

DC openly decided to redesign all their female characters to wear more clothing...

I know it's a skimpy costume and all, usually found on a stripper...I would guess, and yes, there appears to be another suit malfunction which isn't protecting a male vital organ but what gets me is that Starfire has just straight up murdered a man by melting his face like from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.  
 

@aztek the lost said:

@ragdollpurps said:

@aztek the lost said:

@bukkookkub said:

Don't worry, she's just a detraction from Mr. Dick'n'Balls, or, protruding camel-toe, at the top in the black pants..

LMFAO! holy crap, I can't believe nobody else is talking about that!

I can't believe that's the real cover image, surely it's a joke, you can clearly see a semi-erect penis and testicles, HAHAHAHA! whoever was the artist for this pic is the best, seriously, I think the clearly outlined male genitalia more then makes up for another skimpy Starfire uniform

Oh my god, I thought you were joking but that is seriously his junk just right there. xD Thats hilarious. The artist is probably snickering at his desk right now.

I didn't expect it either...seriously, that's not even subtle, I love when editors miss this stuff

Oh god, now my eyes will be forever drawn to that stupid spot every time I look at this cover.

I think Kory is one of the most offensive female characters there is in comics. Beyond her obvious scantily-clad appearance, she's naked almost all the time (with the "caveat" that alien races aren't as prudish as humankind) and I swear, 95% of the comic book stories she's been in over the past few years are her constantly lamenting her lost relationship with Dick Grayson and her subsequent loss of identity. Just a terrible, one-dimensional character, especially since she's considered almost Wonder Woman-level in power. 
 
And you know they'll probably stick her with Red Hood or Arsenal next. She's one of those characters that only rates when she's the love object of a male bad boy.

I think Kory is one of the most offensive female characters there is in comics. Beyond her obvious scantily-clad appearance, she's naked almost all the time (with the "caveat" that alien races aren't as prudish as humankind) and I swear, 95% of the comic book stories she's been in over the past few years are her constantly lamenting her lost relationship with Dick Grayson and her subsequent loss of identity. Just a terrible, one-dimensional character, especially since she's considered almost Wonder Woman-level in power.   And you know they'll probably stick her with Red Hood or Arsenal next. She's one of those characters that only rates when she's the love object of a male bad boy.