Red X and the Outlaws: Or if I had my way on this one too.

If you’ve been paying attention to the comic scene for the last few days, you’ve probably noticed a bit of an uproar over the recent book “Red Hood and the Outlaws” due to the sheer fact of how bad it is. You see, in the comic, they had the Titans known as Starfire essentially offering herself to be Roy Harper and Jason Todd’s boner warmer, as if this was merely a quaint boredom reliever for her. It basically turned the proud and passionate Starfire into a really badly written sexually degrading character.

Now I’ve gone on record to admit I’m a pervert, but even as a pervert, you need to do what Italian Spider-Man says and ‘respect the women’. I’m not going to go into details on my thoughts about this whole mess, because Laura Hudson over at Comics Alliance pretty much said all that needs to be said. Between this and the “Batgirl Cosplayer” from SDCC, I don’t think DC’s public relations with female readers is going over too well these days.

Along with what Ms. Hudson says, I also have another problem with Starfire propositioning herself to Roy Harper. You see… When I read comics, if the character has been voiced in a cartoon, I will read the dialogue in that voice. (Kevin Conroy for Batman, George Newbern for Superman, ect.) But you see, when it comes to Starfire… I think of Hynden Walch’s voice from the Teen Titans cartoon show. So um… This image got put into my head…

And now I want to put my head in a wood chipper.

Annnnyways. I thought about it and wondered if I could do for Red Hood and the Outlaws concept, and see what if I took the idea and put my own twist on it, like I did with the Batgirls concept? How would it be different? Maybe I could make it better? So I thought about it, and drew up the fake cover and series premise here.

RED X AND THE OUTLAWS: REDEMPTION ROAD - The mysterious Red X has discovered that Arsenal's daughter is still alive. While Roy and Starfire believes him, unfortunately, everyone else believes former villain is lying to take advantage of the grief stricken archer. Together with Red X, the trio will journey the dark and mystic Redemption Road to reunite father and daughter together again.

So why did I use Red X as opposed to Red Hood? Well, it’s simple. Red Hood sucks. Never liked Jason. I accept that Jason Todd is back from the dead, but I won't accept that I'm supposed to like him. (I mean, Christ... I PAID fifty cents to kill that little bastard back in the 80s!) However, Red X from the Teen Titans cartoon was awesome, and there's worse things to do than introduce him into the DC universe. Like, you know... Turn Starfire into a dick depository for the male leads.

And here’s the logo-less cover.

So next week… I’ll try to actually talk about the next comic book project. (For reals!) Unless I get distracted by another horrible comic book.