Barbarella Woman Untamed V. 1

Barbarella (2021) #1-4

by Sarah A. Hoyt, Madibek Musabekov (Contributor)

A pop culture icon makes her debut in America with new stories in almost 35 years!

The Siren of Space returns for a series of all-new adventures by a dynamic new creative team! Multi-award-winning author SARAH HOYT and rising star artist MADIBEK MUSABEKOV are at the controls as Barbarella leaves spacedock on a new mission fraught with unseen layers of danger, duplicity and perhaps a dose of romance! Camelot is home to the rich and powerful class seeking escape from an increasingly crowded and decaying galactic empire. Desperate clandestine transmissions from an enslaved underclass bring Barbarella to investigate, uncovering secrets that lead to more secrets-and the distinct possibility that someone knew she was coming. High-concept sci-fi meets the greatest aspects of the human soul in a series that will reveal wonders that both terrify and delight, plus covers by fan-favorites LUCIO PARILLO, DERRICK CHEW, BRIAN BOLLAND and more!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

136 pages, Paperback

First published March 22, 2022

About the author

Sarah A. Hoyt was born (and raised) in Portugal and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons, and a variable number of cats, depending on how many show up to beg on the door step.

In between lays the sort of resume that used to be de-rigueur for writers. She has never actually wrestled alligators, but she did at one point very briefly tie bows on bags of potpourri for a living. She has also washed dishes and ironed clothes for a living. Worst of all she was, for a long time, a multilingual scientific translator.

At some point, though, she got tired of making an honest living and started writing. She has over 30 published novels, in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery, historical fantasy and historical biography. Her short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. Her space-opera novel Darkship Thieves was the 2011 Prometheus Award Winner, and the third novel in the series, A Few Good Men, was a finalist for the honor. She also won the Dragon Award for Uncharted (with Kevin J. Anderson.)

a.k.a. Sarah D'Almeida
a.k.a. Elise Hyatt
a.k.a. Sarah Marqués

Reviews

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars. So the Brotherhood have been fighting the good fight to free people from being ruled over and enslaved. But even tho they fight for good, they think Barbarella can help their cause so they won’t have to kill anymore. Everyone likes Barbarella, especially men. So they think she can convince people to stop and just love one another. I mean, the writing in here is super basic. And Barbarella has sex with random people in almost every issue. She has an A.I. construct or humanoid with her and she has sex with him too. Later in the story there was a scene where the A.I. guy and Barbs confess their love for each other and literally 5 pages later someone just asks Barbarella how much for sex and she like, you don’t have to pay for that and leaves with the guy while Mr. A.I. and standing there looking sad and then gets captured. 😂😂🤦🏾‍♂️. The shining light of this book is the art. Holy crap is it good. This Musabekov person needs to draw more comics ASAP.

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

The strength of the Barbarella series, to me, has always been the sense of whimsy and freedom with which it imagines fantastical landscapes, situations, and characters. Nothing stuffy and traditional about this 60-year-old, swinging 60s franchise. That continues to be true with this iteration. Hoyt takes a planet-per-issue approach to storytelling instead of the planet-per-arc from the previous Dynamite run, which is a little faster and less detailed than I would prefer, but the concepts are still decently fun.

[Jesse A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trying a little too hard