Barbarella/Dejah Thoris Vol. 1

Barbarella/Dejah Thoris #1-4

by Leah Williams, German Garcia (Artist)

From opposite ends of time, two heroines unite for an otherworldly adventure! Barbarella, the siren of space, meets Dejah Thoris, Princess of Barsoom, and together they must solve a murder mystery that spans time and space in order to find their way home. Leah Williams (Adventure Time Comics, Age of X-Man: X-Tremists) teams with German Garcia (Action Comics, X-men) for a fun, deadly, mind-bending epic!

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Ebooks

117 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 28, 2019

About the author

Leah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite the chic, and understated art, the fine dialogue, interesting story and nice characterisation 3 stars is the best I can give this, maybe if I'd read any Dejah Thoris before I'd appreciate it more. Definitely the best and most rational characterisation of Barbarella, as surely a space explorer would be quite smart, as she is hear. 6 out of 12.
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[Robert Bussie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this story much more than I thought I would when I first started reading it. It is very wordy and the character Barbarella comes off as pretentious. However, the more I read the more interesting the story became and I warmed up to the personality of Barbarella. Before this book my limited familiarity with the character was the psychedelic movie staring Jane Fonda. So, I expected the character to be an erotic groovy space woman. Instead, she is an intelligent and rational minded person.

I have read the Dejah Thoris omnibus trades and enjoyed them and really like her character. Unfortunately, in this story her character is limited in scope and seems tacked on to provide emotional responses about the fate of her planet. This plot has a neat time traveling story explaining why there is limited natural water supplies on Dejah's home planet of Mars.

The art is a mixed bag. I like how Barbarella is drawn. It captures her personality. However, Dejah is not drawn very well. Dejah is supposed to be drawn voluptuous. The art and coloring in this book makes her look flat and weird.

[Marcelo Soares · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cinco estrelas? Mas é um gibi da Dejinha!
E da Barbarella!
Enfim, Barbarella vai ajudar um amigo cientistas e acaba puxando a Dejinha para o seu tempo, juntas elas precisam ajudar uma civilização inteira a viajar no tempo com direito a todas as contradições e paradoxos que as boas histórias de viagem no tempo tem. Claro, no meio do caminho tem uma outra surpresa, mas aí é spoiler.
A arte do German Garcia é fenomenal e o texto da Leah Williams é surpreendente, alguém dá um gibi da Canário Negro pra ela, por favor.
A Barbarella é uma personagem inteligente, rápida, irônica, que toma conta da situação, eu tô apaixonado.
A Dejinha é uma marciana, ela não entende muito bem o que tá acontecendo, mas na hora de baixar a espada nos inimigos, ela corta.
Eu fiquei extremamente surpreso com como eu curti esse gibi.
Ah, tem uma pegaçãozinha de leve entre as duas.
Muito tri.

[Luke John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having read the Barbarella series by Mike Carey (and having found it surprisingly entertaining and much less exploitative than it could easily have been) I ventured into this team-up. I have never read any of the Dejah Thoris comics, so can't really comment on whether her character is done justice here, but regardless of this I found it to be another entertaining romp and am a little saddened by the lack of any further Barbarella comics to explore.

[Thalla Rothach · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was surprised by how good this was. Dejah finds an ancient artifact and is transported 10,000 years into the future. Why? With the help of Barbarella she tries to find what her purpose is, with a very beautiful and bittersweet ending.

[Mee Too · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it was a smart and fun sci-fi, some of the science jargon was beyond my comprehension but it didn’t matter. Im interested to see how it progresses considering the two main characters are from different times and planets 🤔🫢

[David Cordero · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely and adventurous. Great covers by Laura Braga.

[Brian Moreau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brainy and so sexy!

[Neal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable story, but goes by pretty quick.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5

[Nate Deprey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This should have sucked but through sheer force of Leah Williams humor and talent saved this collection from the fate of so many other Dynamite published IP cheesecake wastes of time.