tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post6555282402214479130..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Review: Supergirl Annual #2Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-1280445150023673632010-11-01T22:48:08.238-04:002010-11-01T22:48:08.238-04:00Keep in mind, today's comic book writer likely...Keep in mind, today's comic book writer likely came of age as a fan during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" so their whole view of Supergirl is neatly encapsulated by the cover to COIE #7.<br />You can be sure they've never read any of her pre-crisis runs either in her two solo books or her featured run in Adventure Comics, Superman Family or as a back up feature in Action Comics.<br />I honestly believe this is a big problem with the character....the origin of the Supergirl=death equation as it were.<br />I don't know how to combat it save by blunt methods and if DC really is toying with a new snuff scenario, I for one will be done with company for good.<br />They need me a lot more than I need them is how I view it given the nature of today's sales.<br /><br />John FeerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-8572389481078848932010-11-01T21:55:07.116-04:002010-11-01T21:55:07.116-04:00I feel that IF DC Comic kills off and erase Superg...I feel that IF DC Comic kills off and erase Supergirl again. Then they should take out Power Girl this time too. From what I have seen over the years, while the character of Power Girl is a very good character when she has had her own "Gates" over the past 30 years a few times. <br /><br />It is clear to me the ONLY reason DC spared P.G. aka Kara Zor-L was spared from erasure was only because of the way her body and her chest was built. Not because of her stories, nor a proven track record at the time of the CoIE series.<br /><br />I really do enjoy Power Girl's, bold, ballsy, in your face, never give up ever attitude character especially when she is written by a writer who understands her very well. But DC really flubbed it when it came to doing their re-boots on P.G. since then. Changing her origins at least three times I am aware of before finally letting her "remember" again her pre-Crisis life and letting her re-gain her Kryptonian heritage and identity.<br /><br />IF DC insists on letting Power Girl to keep on existing and going on. Then us, fans of the current Kara should be able make such a fuss they will listen to us and find a corner for her to stay in and keep going on just like Power Girl and her group the Justice Society of America.<br /><br />I am dearly hoping Nick Spencer is a fan of the Supergirl and Brainiac 5 pairing and will write great stories about their relationship and their adventures together.valerie21601http://www.fanfiction.net/~valerie21601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-51182247763152494582010-11-01T20:35:26.419-04:002010-11-01T20:35:26.419-04:00When she met Brainy again for the first time, agai...When she met Brainy again for the first time, again, a while back and it hinted of Kara's death, I was concerned. I though maybe it was just a nod to Brainy's loss pre-CoIE, but with this story, I'm worried. <br /><br />Granted, this may have been a nod, or as Valerie suggested, a possibility of JLU-like "death," but I'm soo concerned that DC feels they must honor the time-tested tradition of death and erasure for Supergirl. <br /><br />I'm so saddened by reading this story and what it suggests. Granted, her death may never come in our reading days, but the idea it might breaks my heart. <br /><br />I was never more so relieved and excited as I was when I saw the yet-another Supergirl was Kara Zor-El, and all the pain from her death and dismissal could finally be buried. If they kill Kara again, I won't survive, as it were, this time. Her fans have been teased through the years by possible comebacks and even when she was first rebooted, why does DC feel that teasing of her death is respectful of the character and her fans? <br /><br />I only hope that this was simply a way to acknowledge what came before and NOT an indicator of what we'll be reading in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-81008001745846933382010-11-01T20:31:47.439-04:002010-11-01T20:31:47.439-04:00Some wonderful ideas there, Valerie.
Great round-...Some wonderful ideas there, Valerie.<br /><br />Great round-up of your thoughts, Anj. The death business provided an interesting emotional hook for this issue but I wouldn't mind were Brainy's determination to help Kara not be followed up. I'm all for the death bit being dropped ... the Superman Museum exhibit is likely referencing the Classic Kara's death, which most people have forgotten. It may be that at some point in the various multiverse rewrites, someone remembered it, created an exhibit, and the idea that Kara died young stuck. But I'm happy never to be told ... let's move forward.Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-76800031190468382082010-11-01T08:43:47.086-04:002010-11-01T08:43:47.086-04:00I recall reading a Gates interview where he said K...I recall reading a Gates interview where he said Kara would be visiting the "original" Legion and the previous one she had visited was the Earth-Prime Legion. (And that B5 is with Dream Girl.)<br /><br />That this the second time, Kara will meet the Brainiac 5 of her time line. For him it would be the first time he meets her in person.<br /><br />There are a couple of other ways Supergirl's death could go with with the story telling.<br /><br />1.) In the eyes of the "Public" Kara is dead but she is living a private, non-super hero life, without her powers.<br /><br />2.) Like in the JLU: Far From Home episode, she leaves the 21st century permanently for the 31st century for Brainy and the Legion. Never to come back.<br /><br />With Kara's "death" the legends and the facts change and grow over the centuries and it's revealed the reality is actually very different.<br /><br />Also I did love the Olsen brigade scenes too. Where the android says Jimmy was his best friend, my take on it. Is that over the centuries the myth and legends of Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Best Friend and Confidant grew and grew like Pinnociho's nose. Until there were a 1,000 Olsen tales.valerie21601http://www.fanfiction.net/~valerie21601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-43329459334585501402010-11-01T07:07:07.171-04:002010-11-01T07:07:07.171-04:00I agree that the 'other shoe dropping' fee...I agree that the 'other shoe dropping' feeling is always there with me. Unlike Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman, if Supergirl 'dies' there is no guarantee that she'll be coming back.<br /><br />I hope there was no editorial edict to include this in the story, which would make me more worried. I think Gates just realized that undercurrent is there in the Supergirl fanbase and thought he would acknowledge it.<br /><br />But, as said, I worry with Gates off the title what someone else would do with that info.<br /><br />Given what we have seen in Adventure Comics, I think this is THE Legion and not some offshoot.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-85787390077620021752010-10-31T18:57:19.819-04:002010-10-31T18:57:19.819-04:00My own theory is that the 31st century legion thin...My own theory is that the 31st century legion thinks the old DC hardcover archives are works of history...And clearly they have both the Supergirl volumes in their library.<br /><br /><br />:D<br /><br />John FeerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-32004189239882817072010-10-31T13:27:28.541-04:002010-10-31T13:27:28.541-04:00SaintAsh has started a Querl and Kara fan club on ...SaintAsh has started a Querl and Kara fan club on Deviantart.com devoted to the Brainiac 5 and Supergirl relationship.<br /><br />Right now it's just a fan club with a BIG bunch of Querl and Kara drawings and fan art and even some of XTC in her own folder.<br /><br />SaintAsh and I are working on going some fun stuff and other things for the Q and K fans.<br /><br />http://querl-and-kara.deviantart.com/valerie21601http://www.fanfiction.net/~valerie21601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-2981467124759732572010-10-31T12:41:45.282-04:002010-10-31T12:41:45.282-04:00Wow, that was really a fun read. I'll be look...Wow, that was really a fun read. I'll be looking forward to your further comments on the easter eggs hiding throughout this book.<br /><br />This was definitely a Silver Age 31st century, so much so that Supergirl even comments to the Jimmy Olson hologram that she doesn't remember his relationship with Superman this way. That's not the Jimmy Olson we see in the current run. With Turtle Man Jimmy, Elastic Lad Jimmy, Super-Brain Jimmy, and so forth it's the Silver Age Olson.<br /><br />So... did Supergirl visit yet another off-continuity Legion? Was the death she saw her own, or the death of Silver Age Kara in the first Crisis?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-27037525332052085312010-10-31T09:54:42.445-04:002010-10-31T09:54:42.445-04:00I have a great trust in Sterling Gates as a writer...I have a great trust in Sterling Gates as a writer, it neatly counterbalances my distrust of DC as an institution when it comes to Supergirl. The problem is, that Supergirl's death is being hyped in this annual, and since Gates and Ingle are off the book at the end of the year we have NO IDEA what will be the outcome of said plot point. It may get abandoned it may get carried out well or ineptly we do not know. All we do know is that Sterling Gates won't have our back when the time comes.<br />Hence my concern.<br />And it just bothers me that the main association that everyone has in their mind about Supergirl is "dying young" (Thank YOU Marv Wolfman)....So we get that shoved in our faces periodically.<br />They will fix up Supergirl's damn panties but they won't do a damn thing about the whole Supergirl=a Premature Death equation.<br />That bugs the hell out of me, hype the death of someone else's favorite for once! Leave us out of it, otherwise I get the impression that DC thinks it can bully and tease SG"s fanbase in a way they dare not with say Wonder Woman or Ghod help us, Batman.<br /><br /><br />John FeerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-28275532455663827942010-10-30T18:32:56.577-04:002010-10-30T18:32:56.577-04:00Overall I really enjoyed the SG Ann #2 story too, ...Overall I really enjoyed the SG Ann #2 story too, especially with Kara asking Brainy to take her out on a date later on. I do hope we get to see that story too. It did have something of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book feel to it due to the lack of space and pages to tell much about her adventures there but I thought it was a faithful to the spirit of the Silver Age of the Legion and Supergirl at the same time.<br /><br />While I am glad to see Kara's future death being acknowledged. I worry that it will also wear out us, her long time fans with the waiting for the other shoe to drop syndrome too.valerie21601http://www.fanfiction.net/~valerie21601noreply@blogger.com