Comments on: A Tale Of Two Supergirls

By: John Feer

John Feer — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:37:38 +0000

It’s hard to believe that the only reason that Kara is back at all is because Paul Dini and Bruce Timm worked 24-7 to bring her back in the SM-TAS and the JLU as a fun vibrant character…maybe not quite Superman’s Bronze Age Cousin from Krypton but damn close with a few improvements as well.
So DC takes the damn hint (after a lot of foot-dragging and hemming and hawing) and look what they deliver??!!!!!

By: The Fortress Keeper

The Fortress Keeper — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:29:07 +0000

To be honest, I preferred the vapid Supergirl who should have dressed a bit more warmly in her rocket ship. At least Loeb left open the possibility that Dark Kara was a by-product of the trauma caused by seeing her planet destroyed.
Maybe he would have continued with the would-be assassin bit, but Loeb at least left behind a book that was no worse than a Gerry Conway-penned issue of Marvel Team-Up.
Not the highest bar to clear, true, but still better than what followed.

By: Marionette

Marionette — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:54:05 +0000

“Sadly, the issue just demonstrates how far the character has fallen since Jeph Loeb’s departure.”

That was a joke, right? Loeb was the one who created the vapid would-be assassin in a belly shirt made for her by Ma Kent. Kelly may have given her an unlikeable personality, but Loeb had given her none at all.

Admittedly Kelly has seriously screwed around with the character up to and including retconning some of the stuff Loeb did (to no useful purpose), but it’s not significantly worse, just bad in a different way.

By: Top Posts « WordPress.com

Top Posts « WordPress.com — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:00:54 +0000

[...] A Tale Of Two Supergirls [image] We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Joe Kelly’s Deadpool is one of our favorite […] [...]

By: David Gallaher

David Gallaher — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:47:43 +0000

I love what WIZARD said about the issue:

From their review of SUPERGIRL #18

Less a comic than a passive-aggressive 22-page rebuttal to the book’s critics, this issue of Supergirl sees two competing versions of the character duke it out to be the universe’s One True Supergirl. The false, evil Supergirl is a perma-grinning parody of the classic good-girl take on the character, prone to lecturing the regular version about how people don’t want a Supergirl who has the same real problems they do. This, of course, is a total straw-man argument. No one’s objecting to a Supergirl who isn’t cardboard-cutout perfection—rather, they’ve got a beef with presenting an underaged character who combines grim’n’gritty angst and violence with a hypersexualized look. As if to subtly acknowledge—and mock—the real objection, the evil Good Girl Supergirl is shown wearing a lot more clothes than the normal version, the implication being that three-dimensional characters with genuine emotions go hand-in-hand with belly shirts and panty shots. If you ask me, the wrong Supergirl wins this fight.

When even WIZARD thinks T&A is bad, you’ve got problems!
http://davidgallaher1.livejournal.com/291782.html