Comics Fondle

Kupperberg wraps up one of the series longer running subplots–Linda’s weird boss–as well as giving Supergirl some secret identity changes. Not changes so much as improvements, actually. And the headband. I’m wondering if the headband is a movie tie-in, since she was going to have the headband in the movie, I think. But the issue’s […]

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Ambush Bug pops in for a cameo in a pleasant issue. Kupperberg plays it relatively straight–besides Ambush Bug, he concentrates entirely on his existing cast. Supergirl’s boyfriend Phil has his own adventure, which obviously collides with Supergirl’s pursuing Ambush Bug, and it’s nice to see the character–who I’ve always assumed was going to be Darkseid […]

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Celebrating the series’s first anniversary, it gets a new title–just Supergirl–and the lead character gets a new costume. The tone of the series gets a little more serious too, as Kupperberg deals with a neo-Nazi supervillain. Unfortunately, I zoned during a lot of this new villain’s scenes, thinking more about how Marvel frequently uses Nazi […]

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Paul Kupperberg needs to call a lawyer right now (or maybe he already has) because Superman Returns totally lifts its hospital scenes from the first of these Supergirl issues. I mean, it’s stunning.
Otherwise, this Supergirl arc–featuring a radiation-poisoned Supergirl too weak to fend off the series’s evil organization, who clone her for into six doll-sized […]

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Why doesn’t Supergirl wear pants? The skirt isn’t very functional.
Anyway, besides being a very odd pilot for a New Doom Patrol series, these issues feature–as usual–some wonderful little moments, but are a tad disappointing overall. There’s a lot of good, superhero comic stuff in here (from Supergirl’s well-meaning, but meddling friends to Linda Danvers happy […]

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