PRINCE-S STARthief #3 is a comic written and lettered by Jason Martin with artwork and shading by Winston Young and colors by Ronaldo Barata with Jason Martin. The fight between PRINCE-S and her sister continues and gets up close and personal. This is a violent issue with motivation-revealing backstories and high detail art. The lead of this story is PRINCE-S, a woman who has a vengeance against the PEP-C co and is currently being hunted by them. She has a quick wit and an anger about her. Going against her is her sister FIREbird, who holds a grudge against her for reasons you’ll learn in the story. The plot picks up immediately where the last one left off as this fight sibling fight continues. There are some flashbacks and slightly heavier moments interspersed throughout this fight. The action here is bloody, gory, and explosive. Things here are moderately intense as it is a fight pretty much the entire time. The dialogue can get vulgar and is very hostile with little room for humor. Despite the fact that people are almost always talking there are no wordy pages. This is the third issue and while these tend to be calm story-builders this one gives us an intense fight while giving us reasons as to why this is happening.

            This is a very smooth-looking art style that has eye-catching details and some great coloring. Some of these panels look like screenshots from a cartoon, that’s how good they are. The location for this fight is partly in outer space, and partly in the storage area of PRINCE-S’s ship. This is the most expressive issue by far with the characters here showing a number of different looks throughout this fight. The faces are very detailed and get animated. They really use the whole face when they emote. The equipment here is hard light, lasers, electric whips, and straight up blasts. Watching the combat here is a visual treat and it is pretty easy to follow things. Prepare to see some blood and gore but rest assured this whole fight isn’t like that. The fighting ladies are dressed like a sexy Darth Vader and Princess Leia with large busts and a lack of clothes. Star Wars is not the only property referenced here, this comic is full of them.

“Is this worth reading?”

Yes.

“Would I like this?”

If you like combat-heavy sci-fi stories starring women with art that looks like something out of a cartoon this is for you.

“What would this comic’s film rating be?”

R. Blood and gore.

“Could I get a quote from the comic?”

“Good thing you are not addicted to that anymore!”

 

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Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1489023868/pulp-girls-prince-s-starthief-1-3/description

***IN-DEPTH COMIC STATS BELOW***

Probably Contains Spoilers

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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 28

Violent Pages: 13, for 46% of the comic

Sexy Pages: 0, for 0% of the comic

 

**The levels below aren’t necessarily maintained throughout the whole comic, but they were definitely reached**

 

Violence Level – 3

“Wasn’t no tussling at all.”

“Sometimes you gotta hit somebody.”

“I’m getting charged with how many counts of assault?”

“This was a tournament arc.”

“All my life I had to fight.”

 

Gore Level – 5

“The only thing leaking out your face is tears.”

“Looks like somebody spilled some ketchup.”

“Might need to soak that up with a bath towel.”

“That isn’t supposed to be outside the body.”

“This is a slaughterhouse.”

 

Death Level – 3

“And everybody lived happily ever after.”

“We might have gone to a couple funerals.”

“It just LOOKS like a serial killer was here.”

“Yeah this was a tragedy.”

“Think Gettysburg.”

 

Porn Level – 1

“Everybody kept their clothes on.”

“I guess it was too hot for a bra.”

“Sometimes you got to let everything air out.”

“This is like late night Cinemax in the early 2000’s.”

“Oh. This is porn.”