Sexy, suited not exactly in latex, but often in wardrobe any cosplayer would die to emulate and famously played by Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie that bore the lead character’s name, we can all pay tribute to Barbarella. Now, on the heels of a remake of the movie starring Sydney Sweeney, Dynamite Comics announced that they will be publishing a new Barbarella series.
Penned from writer Blake Northcott, illustrated by artist Anna Morozova, images were released this week where we see the sexy space lady in bed with a hunky alien friend as well a cover shot of her in a tight purple space suit.
Northcott claims that he has taken direct inspiration from the 1960s Barbarella comics as created, by Jean-Claude Forest, as well as nodding to the film. “There are only a handful of sci-fi/fantasy characters who have endured for decades, and Barbarella is right at the top of the list, alongside Leia, Ripley, and Sarah Connor,” Northcott said. “Telling one of her stories is the opportunity of a lifetime — how could I say no to that?”
As we mentioned here when the movie was first announced, indeed, it is the lady’s costumes, be she in or out of them, that we all remember Barbarella for as much as her daring do. The infamous slow-motion stripping sequence of Fonda un-budding from a silvery space suit, her changing later on through furs, a one-piece dress, bodystockings, and silver boots, and one of the sexiest pieces of the movie, Fonda wearing a black top sporting a plastic see-thru section across her perfect stomach and equally plastic see-thru cups at her breasts, are locked in our memories.
All this fantastic future couture was designed by Jacques Fonteray and is enough to make a casual fashionista, science fiction lover, or Fonda fan drool.
The new Barbarella #1 comic is planned to be released this October. We can’t wait to see what she does…and what she is wearing.
