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2009 Book 39: Superman Brainiac

Jun 14, 2009 22:32

Superman Brainiac by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, isbn 9781401220877, 128 pages, DC Comics, $19.95

I've only recently gotten re-interested in the Superman comics enough to start reading them on a monthly basis again. Part of that re-kindling of interest was due to Geoff Johns "Last Son" collaboration with Richard Donner and Adam Kubert, and his " ( Read more... )

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anonymous June 15 2009, 15:42:06 UTC

I have enjoyed the way the "new" Cat Grant has shared my opinions of the latest incarnation of Supergirl, which hopefully will go aways to actually fixing that chara, now that someone in the continuity has finally pointed out that after nearly 40 issues of her own comic, Supergirl has yet to establish herself as an actual "super-hero" or anything else, really. I've long said, as Cat implies, that the current version of Kara Zor-El has pretty much been Paris Hilton in a cape: she's blonde, she thin, and everyone knows her name, but she doesn't seem to actually DO anything! Unfortunately, it looks like whatever could have been done to make Supergirl into an actual character, instead of a transparent trademark holder, is being delayed by the New Krypton stuff, where stuff happens TO her, but she still seems largely blank about it all ("Dad's dead and Mom's a b*tch...I should prolly think something about that, shouldn't I?"). I would much rather have seen more done with Cat hectoring her and Lana mentoring her, since I like the idea of ( ... )

talekyn June 15 2009, 23:34:43 UTC

I missed so many issues of her own book that I didn't realize this newest Kara was such a blank slate. While I still think Cat is a bit one-note (while noting that they at least paid lip service to the death of Cat's son, so there's character development potential there), I can see her as the catalyst for changes in Supergirl.

Speaking of Supergirls -- did they ever decide exactly what happened to the Peter David version? The whole fallen angel thing?

Supergirl anonymous June 17 2009, 21:32:13 UTC

As I recall, the "earthbound angel" Supergirl had a walk-on appearance in the Dr. Occult backup series in Reign In Hell, where she had been consigned to Hell for no apparent reason (there seemed to be a lot of that going in in that series). In Peter David's own Fallen Angel series, there was an arc dealing with a woman who'd been the guardian of the city Bette Noir before the title character, and she was heavily implied to have been Linda Danvers ( ... )