Barbarella #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBarbarella Vol. 3 #3 marks the pivot point of the Northcott/Morozova run's opening arc, shifting the series from the self-contained Planet V reality-television satire into a sprawling, dual-planet espionage storyline that gives the book its serialized backbone. The issue formally establishes EarthGov Agent Jury Quire as a recurring supporting character whose imprisonment on Planet Métrafusion and her mission to expose Métrafusion's authoritarian designs on Alpha Prime drive the remainder of the volume, making this the structural hinge on which the series' larger political narrative turns. At a cultural level, it sits at the intersection of Barbarella's 60-year publishing history and a high-profile Hollywood relaunch moment, positioning Northcott's take as the primary comics companion to the franchise's return to mainstream awareness.
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The third volume of Dynamite's Barbarella was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 and launched in October of that year, conceived explicitly to precede a Sony Pictures film starring Sydney Sweeney that was in active development. Writer Blake Northcott — who had previously worked on Vampirella, Catwoman, and Heavy Metal Magazine, and had also been reported as a screenwriter on the film project — was paired with Anna Morozova, a 2000 AD and Judge Dredd artist for whom the Dynamite series represented her first major spotlight for many American readers. Northcott's stated creative goal was to return to the retrofuturist, campy-yet-self-aware tone of Jean-Claude Forest's original 1960s French strips and the 1968 Roger Vadim film, while adding a modern tonal balance — a philosophy that plays out structurally in issue #3's genre graft of international espionage onto classic space fantasy.
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- Released January 22, 2025, by Dynamite Entertainment; written by Blake Northcott, art and colors by Anna Morozova (Magnus Arts), additional colors by Werner Sanchez.
- The issue introduces EarthGov Agent Jury Quire as a named, active supporting character — imprisoned on Planet Métrafusion — whose arc drives the series' second major story thread through subsequent issues.
- Issue #3 opens with a deliberate visual homage to the zero-gravity opening sequence of the 1968 Jane Fonda Barbarella film, reinforcing the creative team's commitment to honoring the source material.
- The plot establishes Planet Alpha Prime and Planet Métrafusion as key new locations in the Northcott/Morozova continuity, with Métrafusion depicted as an authoritarian power attempting a takeover of Earth's oldest colony.
- At least one significant new supporting character was noted by reviewers to be introduced in this issue, described as a potential future ally for Barbarella — though their name is not identified in available sources.
- Covers for the issue were produced by Joseph Michael Linsner (Cover A), Annie Wu (Cover B), Richard Pace (Cover C), and cosplayer Rachel Hollon (Cover D), all on cardstock.
- The series was positioned by Dynamite as a companion piece to the in-development Sony Pictures Barbarella film starring Sydney Sweeney, with the comic's launch announced ahead of SDCC 2024.
- The character of Barbarella was created by Jean-Claude Forest and first appeared in French publication in 1962; Dynamite's Vol. 3 continues the company's stewardship of the property, which it has held since 2017.
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