Comic book geeking - the return of Starstruck

[catherineldf]

Way back in the misty regions of 1985, a playwright named Elaine Lee worked with comic book artist Mike Kaluta to put out a comic book based on Lee's off-Broadway play, Starstruck. I stumbled across it somewhere around that time, fell madly in love with it, read it until it vanished and mourned its passing. I just found out that IDW Publishing has brought it back, along with some of the not previously published material (here's a history of the whole cycle - http://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2009/09/starstruck-strikes-back.html). Apparently the play is also back, at least if you live on the West Coast. Starstruck is beautifully drawn, insanely complicated to follow and a completely worthwhile to acquire taste. It is also, along with Colleen Doran's A Distant Soil, one of my all time favorite comic books. What's about? Well, clones and revolution and corrupt corporations and some of the most kickass women characters to grace a comic book and sex and explosions and scary pleasure droids and the Galactic Girl Guides, who...well, never mind, you should just read it.

Comments

[mr-bad-example.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realized that Mike Kaluta was the illustrator (you'd think I would have recognized his style). I'm definitely going to check it out!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

I suspect you'll like it, but it's definitely a 'begin at the beginning' sort of series.