Ladies and gentlemen every so often there comes along a comic book or graphic novel that in all honesty has you wondering what in the hell the makers of the comic book or graphic novel were even thinking. Well as you can no doubt work out by the title of this review there is a now infamous comic book / graphic novel that's just been released and well I have to wonder what in the heck the writers / makers of this particular / very comic book graphic novel were thinking when they made this trash and so join me as I review the comic book that pretty much everybody on the internet agrees is trash with the comic book in question being called simply just "I Am Not Starfire" and yes this review will be spoiler simply because there's nothing to actually spoil about this book and so enjoy the review everyone.
Now then I would normally summarise what the plot of the book is in this part of the review however the makers of this book chose not to give this book any kind of plot to speak of whatsoever and trust me I combed through every single page of this book just looking for resemblance of a plot and I couldn't find any kind of plot whatsoever. Which is the first of many things that this book gets wrong because regardless of what comic book / graphic novel that your making you still need to have a plot and this book couldn't even give us any kind of plot to speak of whatsoever.
I'm going to be freaking real with you all here the best DC Comics young adult graphic novel that i've read is thus far Teen Titans: Raven and even that book wasn't that good. This is because Teen Titans: Raven isn't focused on shoving the writers own personal political agenda down your throat and is instead focused on giving us an actually good story heck even by simply having a story makes Teen Tians: Raven better then this book in my opinion anyways / at least.
I think that both myself and anyone else who has unfortunately read this book would have liked it alot more if this book was actually fun to read and sadly this book isn't that fun to read at all whatsoever. As such this book very quickly becomes a chore to sit through and read and that is because the characters that are in introduced into this book are just the kind of stereotypical characters that you'd expect to find in a book that's more focused on pushing the writers ideologies onto the reader.
Now then the writer of this book is one Mariko Tamaki and well not only is this book very badly written but she also made the main character look exactly like her and so she basically self inserted herself into her own story. Which everybody when this book was first announced rather rightfully called her out for doing because even tho we all wanted to be superheroes at some point we all also fully understood of what it meant to be a superhero and this is something Mariko Tamaki doesn't seem to fully understand in my opinion anyways / at least.
Doing the artwork for this film is Yoshi Yoshitani and well if i'm being well and truly honest here the artwork that is featured / presented to us in this particular / very comic book / graphic novel is trash and that is me putting it nicely. I mean no disrespect to the artist who drew this book but the artwork that's seen in this books looks like a first pass piece of artwork and not somebodies final draft and heck in some panels the characters don't have faces.
Now then i'm not going to spoil which other superheroes are appearing in his comic book / graphic novel but I think you can work who it is just by the name of this book but they really did one of the superheroes that are appearing in this book very dirty with there character design. Every other superhero is appearing / showing up in this comic book / graphic novel get some really passable looking designs but for this one character they just went with the most basic as heck looking design that they could have ever gone with so much so that it's honestly laughable and freaking how simplistic and freaking basic this characters design well and truly is in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I want it known that I didn't go into this particular / very comic book / graphic novel wanting to hate infact I went into this particular / very comic book / graphic novel wanting to be pleasantly surprised by it but this comic book / graphic novel gets so many basic things wrong that it makes it hard to find good things to talk about. Like for example this comic book / graphic novel gets Starfire wrong since this books has her portrayed as someone who doesn't really care about her own daughter when in actuality Starfire is the most caring person in the DC Comics Universe and so Starfire would care about her daughter more then anything else in the world because that's how much of a caring person Starfire is heck Teen Titans Go! gets more right about Starfire then this Starfire centric comic book / graphic novel does in my opinion anyways / at least.
Another thing that this particular / very comic book / graphic novel gets wrong is the fact that literally none of it's characters are nit even in the slightest bit likable. This is writing 101 you have to make your main hero characters likable because that's who the audience is meant to like Mandy who is our main hero character for this book is completely unlikable and just like with the rest if this particular / very comic book / graphic novels cast of characters Mandy has no personality and no personality traits to speak off whatsoever and not helping things is the fact that this book is one hundred and sixty six pages which means that are stuck with these very freaking unlikable characters who have very little to no character development or who grow as characters in a story that has no plot to speak whatsoever for a fairly freaking long time.
Now then this book is a superhero book after all and that means that there is some actual action that's featured / seen / resented to us in this book and that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's featured / seen / resented to us in this book and well if i'm being well and truly honest here people the action that's featured / seen / presented to us in this very book is the best thing that's about the book. Which isn't really a high bar to reach since the rest of this book is pure trash and nothing more then that but even so the action that's in this book is at best OK which for this book OK equals phenomenal.
Overall I don't really think that this needs saying to be said at this point but I personally think that this book is utter trash and judging by the responses that just the trailer for this book got as all other comments online alot of people also feel that exact sae way as me and it's books like this particular / very comic book / graphic novel which is why manga is currently beating out comic books when it comes to sales in America. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this film particular / very comic book / graphic novel which means that this particular / very comic book / graphic novel gets a 0.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very / particular review from a website that I cannot name because it means that I used "other methods" in order to read this book , Wikipedia and the official DC Extended Universe fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images that are actually from this very / particular comic book / graphic novel is the one website that like I said I cannot name because it would mean that I used "other methods" in order to read this book and all of the images that are currently up and on the website in question are all fairly high in quality and well as being fairly in high definition.
