Barbarella #4: Love Conquers All

The interior art is very dynamic.  The art is beautiful to look at.  The colors are vibrant but not in a garish way.  There is a muted look to them while they still radiate their color.  Barbarella is drawn as a beautiful woman but she is not overly sexualized.  Instead I would classify her as sensual.

Taln, the angelic AI for the lack of a better term is not overly muscled.  He has a lean physique and the detail in his wings are extraordinary.  It really looks like the reader can see each feather in them.

As for the story this is a one and done chapter in the arc.  The story is definitely part of a larger arc but this story can be read as a standalone story.  Barbarella is depicted as a character that tries to avoid violence as all costs however she can not be considered a pacifist.  She will use force if necessary.  In this story she does not need to.  She uses subterfuge and intelligence instead of her gun to get her point of view across.

The one problem I see with her character is she is a little oblivious to what goes on around her.  She is so focused on speaking to the man in the beginning she fails to notice that Vix, her alien foxlike pet, and Taln are easily taken by the cyborgs virtually right under her nose.  It is much later that she notices her friends a missing.  On the positive side, she does not give up in finding her friends after they are taken, even going against Taln’s wishes that she leave him behind.