oooof, those heels? It's an inoffensive design but kind of dull and lacking connection to anything that came before it. Very little about it is distinctive to the starfire iconography really.
To be honest, i didn't mind her pornoriffic look from the outlaws book (with the boob appliqués), because if you are going to go exotic sexpot goddess of fan-service, i kinda feel you should
commit and go there. And that outfit sure did.
It's unfortunate that the writing couldn't be more subversive in a way that wouldn't have doomed the look to be viewed as the worst of fan-service.
I understand the moment in comics where at now where that sexualized a look doesn't work for marketing to female and young readers though.
My favorite look for her is still the phil jimenez outfit with the armor pants, uncomfortable as they would likely be if actually worn.
i miss her curly hair though. It was brought up on another thread that characters with curly hair all eventually go straight. Long and straight being a beauty standard as it were. Boooo.
bring back the big curly kori!
say no to tamaranean blow outs!
given kori's history being enslaved and tortured as an adolescent, it makes sense that she would be a strong advocate for the younger generation of titans. Thats what geoff johns was picking up on during his run on teen titans when he put starfire in the mentor role. That along with, distilling her essence to "alien amazon warrior princess", were brilliant. It was a move forward in the maturation of the character. Subsequent versions of the character have taken her in a more naive or immature version of her characterization (to be kind).
It was also a visual reminder of blackfire's role as an outsider in tamaranean society. She was considered handicapped because she was born without the ability to fly. Amongst a bohemian society of bombshells and adonises, poor kommand'r was the broken princess. She would have paired off well with lightning lord from the legion books who was likewise shunned for being born without a twin on the planet winath where twin births were the standard.