
"Wait, I thought you were only reviewing Lil Bombshells that weren't also Mystery Minis. Starfire was. Why are you reviewing Starfire?"
Be patient, gosh!
If you go and read that linked Starfire review, you'll already know a few things: the character only appeared in a grand total of two whole panels in the comic, and she had a different design inside the books than she did on the variant cover. Cryptozoic, like Funko, opted for the "real" version, which makes her a firefighter rather than a sideshow act. Unless dressing like a cute firefighter is her sideshow act? But then that's more "burlesque" than "sideshow," so probably not. Here's to all the sexy first-responders! Sexy firefighters, sexy paramedics, sexy Public Works employees... but not sexy cops, because ESCAB (Even Sexy Cops are Bastards). Besides, what's a cop going to do in an emergency, direct traffic? Wow, exactly as helpful as a "Road Closed" sign, except the sign is less likely to kill your dog.
This does give us the opportunity
to directly compare the Lil Bombshells and Mystery Minis styles, though. They're about the same size, but Lil Bombshells have slightly larger heads (or at least taller) and slightly thinner bodies, especially in the legs. Lil Starfire has her jacket pulled back more, closer to the original art, and the "52" on the front of her fire helmet is sculpted rather than just painted on. She doesn't have any painted pupils in her solid green eyes, which is how it should be, but the Mystery Mini had the advantage of using translucent plastic for her hair, which made it look more fiery than this one's use of regular paint.
Like the Superman figure, Starfire has an exclusive variant. And like the Superman figure, it's a perfectly suitable repaint that turns her into a villainous counterpart, giving us a new character who's original to the line.
Available at WonderCon 2019 and limited to 300 pieces, the exclusive keeps her skin orange, but changes the clothes to black and grey, and makes her hair
shades of purple - this is Starfire's sister, Blackfire! Now, since Koriand'r only appeared in two panels of the comic and got no characterization, you can probably guess that her sister Komand'r is even more of a blank slate. But since the two have a pretty well-established dynamic in other fiction, you can probably extrapolate what this one would be like, as well. (Since having black/purple hair is a feature of Blackfire that was invented for the Teen Titans cartoon rather than the comics, we'll use that as a basis.) If Kori is a firefighter, then Komi is probably setting fires and trying to frame her sister for doing it. While also trying to steal her boyfriend just to prove she can. We'd say she's super flirty, but that's everyone in Bombshells world. To further set this release apart from Starfire, she gets an emblem tampographed on her base: a black star trailing purple fire. I wonder what that's supposed to represent?
