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Big Barda is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in ''Mister Miracle'' #4 (October 1971), and was created by Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby based Barda's physical appearance on Lainie Kazan, who had recently appeared topless in ''Playboy''. Mark Evanier, Kirby's assistant on the Fourth World comics, has explained the genesis of the character: "Jack based some of his characters (not all) on people in his life or in the news... the characterization between Scott 'Mister Miracle' Free and Barda was based largely—though with tongue in cheek—on the interplay between Kirby and his wife Roz". In 2011, Big Barda was ranked 75th in ''Comics Buyer's Guide's'' "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. Fictional character biography Barda is a member of the race known as the New Gods, and was born on Apokolips about 250 years ago. Her mother was Big Breeda, whom Barda was taken away from at an early age to be trained as a warrior at Granny Goodness' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Roux (comics)
Stéphane Roux is a French comic book artist who is known mostly in United States, America for his cover work for Marvel Comics, Marvel, DC Comics, DC and Semic Comics, Semic comics. Career Stéphane Roux' has worked on such titles as ''Witchblade: Blood Oath'', scripted by Jean-Marc Lofficier, as well as ''Sibilla'' (scripted by Jean-Marc Lainé) and ''Strangers (French comic book), Strangers'' in the Semic pocket and comics publications. His longest cover assignment was on ''Birds of Prey (comics), Birds of Prey'' (issues #104 to 127), with notable covers on various titles including ''Countdown to Final Crisis'', ''Savage She-Hulk'', ''X-Men: Worlds Apart'', and ''The Amazing Spider-Man Extra'' #2. He has been working on the DC comics series ''Zatanna'', written by Paul Dini, and ''Star Wars: Agent of the Empire'', written by John Ostrander. He is doing covers, fill-ins and short stories for all the majors comic-book companies. He did the poster for New York Comic Con 2013. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |