#star*reach

[wonderful-strange]

Star Reach #1, April 1974. Back cover art by Jim Starlin.

Greystoke Trading Company.

#star reach #star*reach #jim starlin #comic book art #fantasy #fantasy art #comic books #comic book covers #underground comics #independent comics #1970s

[head-vampire]

Star Reach #3 (1975)

Cover art by Frank Brunner

#star reach #star*reach #fantasy #70s #star reach comic #frank brunner #retro art #vintage #sword and sorcery

[thefugitivesaint]

Barry Windsor-Smith, ''Star Reach'', #7, 1977 Source

#barry windsor-smith #british artists #star reach #comic covers #comic art #70s comic art #70s comic #independent comic books

[cantsayidont]

October 1979. Launched in 1974, STAR*REACH was a creator-owned anthology comic published by Mike Friedrich, which lasted 18 issues over five years. It attracted some notable creators, including Jim Starlin, Dick Giordano, and Howard Chaykin, although only a few of the stories and serials were memorable. One of the more interesting was "Stark's Quest," a science fiction series by Lee Marrs about a woman called 1128 Stark, a psychic "Mindwarper" (or just "Warper") in a future world where people with psychic abilities are a persecuted minority. A lot of the story deals with the politics surrounding Warpers, but the aspect that makes the strongest impression is Stark's struggle to establish any kind of romantic or sexual relationship, something her abilities make very difficult. The final installment has her drawn to another Warper called 2009 Thorz, who subsequently attempts, initially without much success, to use her own powers to dampen both of their telepathic senses so they can have sex without suffering agonizing psychic overload.

"Stark's Quest" is talky and very '70s, but it's one of the anthology's most thoughtful features, and Marrs' art is very nice. I don't know if it was ever continued elsewhere, and I don't think it's been collected. (Marrs presumably still has the rights — the whole point of STAR*REACH was that the creators owned their own material — but it may just not have ever been financially worthwhile for her to revisit it.)

#comics #star reach #star*reach #mike friedrich #lee marrs #stark's quest #stark's quest is also lower on the misogyny scale #than many of the others

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/star-reach-015-star-reach-productions-1978-zen-reaper-c-2c/Star%20Reach%20001%20%281978%29%2052pg%204th%20edition%20%28ABPC%29/

all 18 issues

#Star Reach #science fiction comic #comics #sequential art

[weirdlookindog]

Star Reach #1 -  Star*Reach Productions (1978). Cover art by  Howard Chaykin and Jim Starlin.

#star reach #underground comix #howard chaykin #jim starlin

[aeiraladventures]

Gene Day pages from STAR*REACH #9 (1977)

#Star Reach #Gene Day #1977

[treylane]

#star reach

[bobfishpresents]

#howard chaykin #mike friedrich #star reach #walt simonson #jim starlin #youtube #comics #art #books #towmorrows

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

the kids share one braincell and its purpose is to help people

#i love welt standing there because it gives me the vibes of like #he knew they were all gonna reach out #so he just stood back to give jing yuan some space shdgdhd #honkai star rail #hsr #caelus #dan heng #imbibitor lunae #jing yuan #march 7th #welt yang #trailblazer #astral express #astral express crew #astral express family #stelle #hsr stelle

[brightgoldenstar]

Reference:

#Please let this reach the right audience lol #I think he could be either a Barbie or Ken and I debated which one to put when making this #That’s my babyyy #Barbie #Barbie Movie #Barbie Film #Barbie Selfie Generator #Star Wars #Luke Skywalker #Star Wars Meme #Star Wars Memes #I can’t stop making these #Chanel Boots #Don’t Worry Mr. Skywalker I saw your Chanel Boots

[wonderful-strange]

Star Reach #3, Sept. 1975. Cover art by Frank Brunner.

Greystoke Trading Company.

#frank brunner #sword and sorcery #fantasy #fantasy art #star reach #star*reach #comic books #comic book covers #comic book art #1970s #greystoke trading company

[head-vampire]

Star Reach #2 (1975)

Cover art by Neal Adams

#star reach #star*reach #fantasy #70s #star reach comic #retro comic #sci fi #neal adams #stephanie starr

[short-wooloo]

I feel like people miss the point of the "war is bad" message

What it's supposed to mean is that war is terrible, it's destructive, it ruins lives, it leaves scars, and you should only partake in it when there are no other options, because even if you win, even if you survive, you will not be the same, which is why the phrase used to be more commonly known as "war is hell"

But "war is bad" seems to have been construed by people in fandom into "any fighting is bad, if you fight you're morally terrible and impure, you should not fight at all, no matter what", this is annoying in fandom, as it often misses the point fiction is trying to make, but what's worrisome is when people apply this to real life, as I have seen people do regarding russia's invasion of Ukraine

And that's almost never the point of "War is Bad" works

Works like Lord of the Rings, Avatar The Last Airbender, Transformers, The Clone Wars, Halo (especially Reach), etc all have themes on how horrible war is, but they categorically do not say it is wrong to fight, what they say is usually along the lines of "war is terrible, and what makes it so terrible is that we have no choice but to fight, it would be ideal if we didn't have to fight at all, but we must fight, because not fighting is not an option, because not fighting, not opposing tyranny, conquest, and evil only allows those things to exist unimpeded"

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #war #war is hell #war is bad #lord of the rings #sw #star wars #lotr #avatar the last airbender #atla #transformers #tf #tcw #star wars the clone wars #sw tcw #halo #halo reach

[rochenn]

Thinking about how some very minor tweaks could make so many SW species way cooler than "funky-colored human" yknow. REPTILE TOG! SKINKSOKA!!

#ahsoka outgrowing anakin around 16 and reaching 2 meters at like 20 please and thank you #skinksoka is canon to all my fics btw #star wars #my art #ahsoka tano #togruta

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Lost boys

#mayhem art #star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker fanart #obi wan kenobi fanart #star wars art #this one was sitting in my drafts for about a month. idk why I was holding onto it -cries- anyway #this is shortly after Qui-Gon's death. Both of their lives just got flipped upside down. Anakin is traumatized by having to leave #his mother behind‚ then his Master's sudden death‚ and he's left with no certainty in his future. #Obi-Wan just witnessed his Master die‚ helplessly‚ then having to take care of this little human in his Master's stead‚ meanwhile feeling #wholly inadequate to be so suddenly knighted let alone immediately becoming a Master and taking responsibility for another being. #Both of them losing the constants in their lives. left uprooted. the only anchoring point being each other. #I imagine Obi-Wan wouldn't reach out to Anakin first‚ but if Anakin expressed compassion with him‚ grief‚ and his need to feel secure‚ #Obi-Wan wouldn't turn him away #this was just my excuse to give them a proper soothing hug in their time of mourning