Synopsis: Karate Action Supergirl promises to save the boy with cancer that she saved last issue. A weird man in a suit appears and freezes time and shoots the boy with a kryptonite bullet that Supergirl catches but hurts her. :( She falls down, affected by the Kryptonite. The strange man prepares to kill her but Superman manages to laser his suit with his heat vision.
His suit leaks some weird energy and him and Supergirl are teleported elsewhere. With the Kryptonite now gone, Supergirl defeats the guy but is attacked by other ppl wearing similar outfits nearby. They shoot past her destroy the machines around her. They try to kill the weird guy too but Supergirl grabs him and flies away.
They fly outside and Supergirl questions the guy who says that they're in the future and shows Supergirl a giant statue of herself. There is a mini pillar too with Superman's S on it and a small blue flame to honour Superman's death. Apparently there is one on every planet that Superman saved in his death :o
The guy explains that in trying to cure cancer, Supergirl makes all humans have super powers like she does. And that it makes them not human nemore and it ended their "world". He went back in time trying to kill Superman and altho he failed he managed to trap Supergirl in the future where can do no harm. He said that that's why they destroyed the time travelling machine that was around her. Also that he ate a suicide pill after she "rescued" him, so that he cannot rebuild the machine.
Supergirl rushes him back to the machine telling him to fix it but he refuses. However it's alrdy fixed and a bunch of Bruce Wayne clones who are known as the "Batmen" appear and tell Kara to go back in time and do what she believes is right. :o
Review: O... kay...
Supergirl's been mind controlled on Apokolips, ran around on Kandor in that awful Candor storyline that was never rly explained well, went to a "future" that was a delusion where the sun was red and phantoms were everywhere, she's been to the future with the Legion and now.. she's in the future again?
So when do we get to settle down and get to know Supergirl a little, maybe give her a LIFE and FRIENDS? She's off the Titans now too, and no longer friends with Cassie so there's even LESS of that around now.
Instead it's more Supergirl doing weird things with plots that barely make sense where things are just rushing by and we're ttlly going wtf!? >_>
She certainly likes spending time in the future :\
These plots would be great if Supergirl had some sort of established setting and supporting cast and stuff but she DOESN'T. And she's still being purely tied to Batman and Superman. Superman and Batman are constantly saving her. So when does she get to stand on her own two feet?
And now she's in the future again xD Okay.. soo... by giving humans special powers, and presumably resistance to diseases, she made them not human. Just like the Flash isn't human right? Or Elongated Man? Or any of the metagene ppl? All not human. Nope. Once you gain powers you are INHUMAN.
Did she force this on them? It was never explained :( I dun understand why trying to cure disease would be so bad? :\ It seems kinda flimsy to me mainly cuz it's poorly explained. "Without human weakness we aren't human nemore" is a pretty cliched thing to shout out, esp since it's not rly that simple, esp not in a world of superheroes. So Superman isn't human? I thought everybody agreed he was the most human of all the heroes. And like Flash again, or other human heroes who have meta powers? Not human? Is dying the only thing that makes ppl human? Cuz even WITH superpowers you can still die! Should we not try to cure cancer cuz that would make ppl less human? >_> Were we more human back when we were living shorter lives and dying more? o_O
I'm just so confused XD Rly just.. stuff is happening again.
AND WHAT'S WITH THAT POSE xD OMG. WHO STANDS LIKE THAT WHILE TALKING!? Wouldn't the Kryptonite affect Superman too or does the time distortion thing means the effects work slower on him?
I rly didn't like how Kara thought that Batman would think of a way out of the situation or Superman would, while the guy had the gun pointed at her, but all she can think of is her own death. *sighs* It's issue 27, and Supergirl's reverted back to being not a hero, even tho she's supposedly been heroing for 2 years and she even REMEMBERED HER TIME WITH THE LEGION WHERE SHE WAS CLEARLY A HERO WHO WAS VERY READY TO FACE DEATH BY TAKING THE BOMB TO THE DOMINATOR HOMEWORLD.
ARGH
I mean this isn't BAD characterization if this was early on in the Supergirl series, but this just proves how her character is NOT developing and how NOBODY has any idea how to write her! Everybody has their own idea of what to do and Bedard, so far, has been the only one to actually try to grow her as a character with interactions with the Kents and stuff! *sighs* And now we're back to Supergirl running around while crazy things happen!
So first she has that weird thing where she flies around space following the alien invasion ships. Then the invasion is over, she fights Reactron who we never get an explanation for, and now she's in the future with BatMEN! *sighs*
And now she's going back in time again! It's sad b/c the future actually looks sorta neat with the giant black dome in the ocean and a giant pillar of fire. But we dun get to find out what those are :( I'm sad, it's like a Final Fantasy overworld thing! XD
Still... wtf!? ARGH
PLZ SOMEBODY SETTLE ON A DIRECTION FOR SUPERGIRL PLZ? CRAZY INSANE FUTURE/DIMENSION SETTINGS IS NOT A DIRECTION! THINGS HAPPENING IS NOT A DIRECTION!!! >:|
Mrow!
Last issue wasn't that bad, and I thought it would follow up to something interesting about Supergirl growing as a hero, but now there's a TIME TRAVEL TWIST. -_-
Just move her to Canada and give her a supporting cast AWAY from SuperBatman plz. :| PLZ? :D Pretty plz? :D
Blargh.
I hope that the next issue will be more interesting and MAYBE work with this plot in some way that's not TTLLY CLICHED!!! But this issue rly just.. :\ Let's keep Supergirl in one place/dimension/time period for a little longer than a couple issues at a time ok? :) And build a supporting cast for her instead of a never ending list of guest stars ok? :)
Angelwings Rating: 1 future crazy worlds out of 5 Batmens :(
Recommendation: Maybe for Supergirl fans following this arc you should get it, but this is rly not a very good issue :( Not recommended for non Supergirl fans :\
3 angel hugs! :D:
I might be completely wrong about this, but I thought this issue was establishing mysteries (like what exactly the Batmen are) and plot threads? I mean, we didn't know what exactly was going on, but neither did Kara, so I expect this is supposed to be set-up. I don't know, there just seemed to be a method to the madness.
The art shift also didn't bother me. It seemed more like a conscious transition in art style than a fill-in job, since Johnson only did the first page with Leonardi drawing the rest.
I'm probably approaching this with a different mindset than you, though. I'm reading Supergirl mainly because I enjoy Kelley Puckett's work and have no attachment to the character. So yeah, I can understand that you're annoyed by the lack of characterization.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=tbp&article=3015
Hannibal Tabu (near the very bottom of his column) pretty much summed it up in the span of a couple of sentences.
I liked your review, and personally found it very illustrative; specially concerning the plot problems that one of my most beloved characters is constantly facing. I like Supergirl very much, but the empathy I feel towards her is repeatedly crashing against poor writing and lack of good ideas from the team in charge. In fact, I got so disappointed whit the new Supergirl that I too believe that no one on her team has a good idea of how to write about her; so I decided to write a completely new and consistent adventure of her, for fun purposes only. I am doing my best to maintain the original vision of the character, which I believe is the most appropriated one. I hope to finish it soon so I can upload it.
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