tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post3241165253838345938..comments2024-03-27T19:22:03.112-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Matrix Monday: Supergirl #1 (1994 mini-series)Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-41285159563061439852023-08-23T11:00:52.989-04:002023-08-23T11:00:52.989-04:00Anj, Suoergirl didn't know Lex was watching he...Anj, Suoergirl didn't know Lex was watching her at the start of the story. If you'll recall, when his goon squad was defeated, she knocked down the door to the room where Lex was waiting. He told her that by defeating his troops, she had earned a solid A+. To which she replies:"Did I really." Then when Lex comes into the light, she exclaims, "LEX"?? So she had no idea that sleazeball was watching her. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-58386215588400351042019-02-11T16:59:31.787-05:002019-02-11T16:59:31.787-05:00Back then, DC were so insistent that we weren’t ge...Back then, DC were so insistent that we weren’t getting Kara Zor-El back that it was a question of give Matrix a chance or stick to back issues. I clung to my lovely old comics and enjoyed them, but was also enjoying how the post-Crisis books were, basically, bringing back everything old with a fresh twist. And that’s what Matrix was - not my Supergirl, but a Supergirl*, and this mini-series was an important step along the way. Roger Stern was an A-list writer and he did a fine job here... lovely art, too.<br /><br />* Matrix was less like Kara than the Totem Supergirl, an artificial creation mimicking Superman... heck, she even began as a redhead, like Totem Supergirl... well, if you first read that story in reprint form!Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-20166669641156786162019-02-11T13:16:17.947-05:002019-02-11T13:16:17.947-05:00"I find ironic, though, that twenty-five year..."I find ironic, though, that twenty-five years later the Supergirl book is kind of recycling the "Supergirl is cloned by a megalomaniac creep" plot."<br /><br />At least this time Supergirl has the good judgement to spit in the megalomaniac creep's face instead of being his girlfriend for a couple of years. <br /><br />I read this mini series when it first came out. I was happy to see Supergirl get a comic of her own, even with a limited run, and overjoyed to see her give Lex the heave ho.William Ashley Vaughannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-44803641683251641212019-02-11T10:13:41.609-05:002019-02-11T10:13:41.609-05:00Granted this is heavy handed irony, but I love how...Granted this is heavy handed irony, but I love how DC thought Matrix (who had a sad sick crush on Lex Luthor) was some sort of IMPROVEMENT on Kara Zor El who had seemingly a different BF in every issue of her own title all of them, inane and dubious, but then they weren't Luthor either.<br />This whole Mini is a sort of belated "retrofire" designed to extricate Supergirl from the "romance with Lex" storyline, its too little too late IMHO, but I guess the creatives couldn't have know that, at the time.<br /><br />JFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-43614103640305881142019-02-11T08:50:14.591-05:002019-02-11T08:50:14.591-05:00"Remember, this could be someone's first ..."Remember, this could be someone's first Supergirl comic. So up front, Stern does a good job of filling in some details. This Supergirl isn't related to Superman at all."<br /><br />...Honestly, the fact that six years after COIE the writer felt he needed to clarify for the new readers' sake that Supergirl wasn't Kryptonian or Superman's relative highlights that replacing Kara Zor-El was doomed to fail.<br /><br />It isn't like he needed to write those exposition lines, since later he wrote a whole page recapping her backstory. So why did he think he needed to make the matter clear in the first pages? Oh, yes. Because he thought new readers would assume Supergirl is Superman's family and they would get confused.<br /><br />"Lex even wants to peek in on that."<br /><br />Sleazy creep.<br /><br />You've got to respect Kelley's guts, though. Lex has offed people for way less than that.<br /><br />"The issue ends with Lex looking at his egg farm of Supergirls that he is growing."<br /><br />I said Lex is a creep? Because he IS a creep.<br /><br />Funny. It took some seconds for me realizing that the "old man" Pa was talking about was Lex rather than Lionel.<br /><br />I was born several years before COIE but I didn't seriously get into Superman comics until the 2000's, and this era feels... strange to me. The weird plotlines (Lex is his own son? Okay. And people thinks the Silver Age was silly...), the competent but somewhat dated 90's art and panel layout, the storytelling tone, the secondary characters who were fleshed out but would be discarded for the most part before the end of the decade... yes, not my favorite era.<br /><br />I find ironic, though, that twenty-five years later the Supergirl book is kind of recycling the "Supergirl is cloned by a megalomaniac creep" plot.<br /><br />Off-topic: Anj, Supergirl is being featured in this week's DCSHG Super Short "Street Style" and the "Get To Know" feature (which are uploaded every Thursday and Saturday, respectively). A good chance to learn more about this Supergirl, I guess.<br /><br />Also, Lauren Faust has tweeted "the shorts are cute but they feel pretty different from the series", and Lena Luthor will play some sort of role:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Fyre_flye/status/1094433116410720256Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com