Comics Fondle

For the last two issues–Infantino is back by the way, I guess he just took an issue off (issue twenty-two is one of his best, actually)–Kupperberg gives Supergirl a lot to do. She’s fighting a big-headed man from the future (sort of), while Linda is alienating everyone who cares about her.
Issue twenty-two, featuring around eight […]

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Only two more issues. I’m actually real sad about it.
Issue twenty-one is either an unannounced creative change or an unannounced guest star. Eduardo Barreto handles the art chores here and he does a beautiful job. There are some other presentation changes, nice ones, and they lend themselves to the story.
Oddly, Kupperberg’s story for this issue […]

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Kupperberg handles Supergirl’s anniversary is handled a little goofy. It ties in to the Action Comics issue, paralleling Superman and Supergirl handling a similar situation. It’s not exact because there’s also the wrap-up (an exact parallel would have been a lot more interesting).
The problem is the lack of surprise. The Action Comics issue sort of […]

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With a wonderful Eduardo Barreto cover of the Parasite menacing the super-cousins, I assumed this issue would be something of a team-up… forgetting what it said at the end of the last Supergirl, that the stories would be parallel. And it’s not Barreto on the interiors, it’s Curt Swan and, unfortunately, Swan’s not very tight […]

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If this issue came out today–or in the last five years–it’d probably be a six issue arc. As is, it should have been a couple issues at least. The issue opens with Linda Danvers discovering she doesn’t have any superpowers and, across town, Supergirl discovering she doesn’t have a secret identity. It results in a […]

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