tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post4022601206246895182..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Back Issue Review: Adventure Comics #391Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-88767336030006770382015-12-18T23:06:47.301-05:002015-12-18T23:06:47.301-05:00My only complaint about Kurt Schaffenberger's ...My only complaint about Kurt Schaffenberger's artwork is his consistently corny looking backgrounds...if a script required a computer then sure as shooting Kurt would depict it as being operated with knife switches and sprouting spiral electrodes. He also started Kara down the road to what I like to call "Bombshell Supergirl"...<br />;)<br />Look at that panel where Linda sheds a tear it has like literally Linda's dejected pose, her play of feeling and her rival's reaction all seamlessly integrated into a single frame that neatly moves the whole story along. <br />Master Indeed...<br /><br />JFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-51864466467445555332015-12-18T14:17:29.415-05:002015-12-18T14:17:29.415-05:00JF's great comments about Schaffenberger's...JF's great comments about Schaffenberger's emotional range had me searching out those model sheets from an old Superman Family, and I found them on Albert Bryan Bigley's blog. Curt Swan's model sheets are there too. These men were just masters. <br /><br />http://bigglee.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/superman-family-model-sheets-jimmy.htmlMartin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-16664995820790533902015-12-18T13:46:16.356-05:002015-12-18T13:46:16.356-05:00Thanks for comments!
Yes, this wasn't the fir...Thanks for comments!<br /><br />Yes, this wasn't the first or last time Linda was an actress. Between Vandyre and Secret Hearts, she has found herself in that profession.<br /><br />The idea of 3001 Kara Bing his one makes sense. That Kara is clearly a bit established, confident, nd ready to roll. Sounds like this one as well! Nice thought.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-51485271519945959912015-12-18T13:25:12.647-05:002015-12-18T13:25:12.647-05:00When I read JL 3001 it seems like this Adventure C...When I read JL 3001 it seems like this Adventure Comics period of Silver Age Supergirl. Action Comics was too naive and hesitant, and later versions had different costumes, hair, and behavior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-45924056153565980022015-12-18T12:38:24.555-05:002015-12-18T12:38:24.555-05:00I love this story for it's sumptuous Kurt Scha...I love this story for it's sumptuous Kurt Schaffenberger artwork, that penciler was good at two things, one emotional content, he had a range of expressions for all his character regardless of gender, he was also very very good at conveying action in a eye popping way. He also had a forte for drawing pretty young women, but we need not dwell on that overmuch.<br />:)<br />The Silver Age Supergirl could be maddeningly unliberated sometimes (although in general she was an outspoken feminist compared to Kanigher's Wonder Woman or Stan Lee's version of Sue Storm) and a little passive...but her saving grace she was Always Thinking and Putting the Clues Together Logically. ..never more so than in this story where she basically functions as a detective for twelve pages.<br />Bob Kanigher loved film settings for his female characters I think the Silver Age Wonder Woman ended up on movie sets a good four times over the course of the silver age......so having a heroine "play herself" in a motion picture is an olde trope for him.<br />BTW I love that cover, there Supergirl is plunging towards a sure exposure of her secret identity and there she is reviewing the whole situation thinking away til the last second before impact....I MISS these kinds of covers, ;)<br /><br />JF Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-8775226772578476952015-12-18T11:27:07.771-05:002015-12-18T11:27:07.771-05:00surpassed, surprise. I have it too :)surpassed, surprise. I have it too :)mhrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-47788750884074551192015-12-18T08:16:43.080-05:002015-12-18T08:16:43.080-05:00Fun review. I did like this story, not least for t...Fun review. I did like this story, not least for the Schaff art. When I first came across it I knew him only from Lois Lane, so seeing him draw action a la Mary Marvel was a treat. <br /><br />I like the continuity in that second panel after the computer results come out, referring to some other Linda-as-actress tale. And of course, she late claims that she's always wanted to be an actress. <br /><br />That's a strangely unattractive background shade on the cover, one actively preventing the Linda figure from 'popping'. <br /><br />I miss such imaginative stunts as Super-finger snapping - that could be a nice, cheap moment for TV Kara. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.com