About the Fumetti Brutti, I don't know man, she strikes me as a feminist kind of author. Kind of like our "Maitena". Romanticizing periods, glorifyng obesity, not waxing, "look at me I masturbate every day", etc. And she confirms my politically incorrect hypothesis about feminists having a preference for rough sex and sexual submission (which she admits herself).
I could say "So what?" I'm interested in hearing from everyone who says interesting things. "Interesting" is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither just nor evil. Interesting is... Interesting.
I read "Anestesia" a few months ago, and it really touched me. Others' mileage may vary.
Maybe that's why they need to go around screaming how powerful they are;
I'm pretty sure that a percentage of people feel that need - imagine when they stumble into something done right. However...
it's overcompensation and guilt. And I bet the author of "I'm not Starfire" has that kind of fetish as well.
Maybe. I don't know. However, "I Fumetti Brutti" creates her own world and her own characters. The authors of "I'm not Starfire" start by molesting an existing franchise. That's already a red flag. History teaches that the lack of faith and talent needed for creating your own franchise will be expressed with an uncreative approach to the themes paired with untalented art - all with the hope that an established brand will propel you anyway (see also "Winter Tide" and "Fate of Cthulhu") And the art of "I'm not Starfire" is horrid; horrid for real, not as a researched style fruit of hard work.
This means that "I Fumetti Brutti" sells to people interested in what she has to say. "I'm not Starfire", instead, is exactly that: an intrusion in a line whose readers are not interested in those topics (and a badly drawn one, BTW). No one wants to be lectured in Star Wars, Ghostbusters or Terminator, and those franchises and many others paid dearly for this mistake.
[Educational link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210415144433/https://www.oneangrygamer.net/get-woke-go-broke-the-master-list/]
I could be a fan of the American edition of "The Ugly Comics" but when I buy "Starfire" I want both Starfire (or a good spin-off of
Starfire) and the minimum level of quality in the art department I expect from
that comic book line.
[Not to mention how it turned out that a "Young Adult" comic has contents inappropriate for that age band...]
Ironically, a look at the American comic book industry shows that some sectors are doing really well. Authors like Raina Telgemeier are amazingly popular among young girls. And, lo!, think what you want about her, but she created her own characters and her own world. Marvel and DC are struggling in this sector (mostly because they lack the understanding and the experience). The result is that they publish something that the readers of Raina Telgemeier will never even consider while losing the readers of Starfire in the process.
Meanwhile, the twenty most sold adult graphic novels in America are constantly all manga. Time for the that part of the industry to get a clue.