tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post7403968172248108742..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Sales Review: November 2016Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-86561135604566784502016-12-15T21:22:22.839-05:002016-12-15T21:22:22.839-05:00Great discussion and thoughts about the title ever...Great discussion and thoughts about the title everyone.<br /><br />The idea of the title trying to be everything but as a result being nothing is interesting. I do think the undercurrent of this first arc, Kara accepting Earth as home, has been beaten to death. So for me I don't mind the quasi-show elements. I just want her being a hero.<br /><br />I do wonder why DC hasn't announced a second season of the show book. Weird.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-57684819527882278642016-12-15T20:54:53.021-05:002016-12-15T20:54:53.021-05:00"I don't think the book is bad, it's ..."I don't think the book is bad, it's just badly missing the audience. It's trying to hit the target of the original readers of Supergirl and the target of the TV viewership, but instead it's not really hitting either."<br /><br />I think you've just hit on a possible reason why the series may be in freefall. It's got warmed-over and reconfigured elements, but there seems to be little emotional justification for their existence at all....and the central character almost seems like she'll eventually become scapegoated by all the unnecessary semantic trappings surrounding this particular relaunch. <br /><br />KETKEThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13797904604074311480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-44234406151504391612016-12-15T17:04:26.995-05:002016-12-15T17:04:26.995-05:00Part of what may be affecting Supergirl's sale...Part of what may be affecting Supergirl's sales is that it doesn't seem to be aimed at any particular existing audience. The television viewers dropping in aren't getting Alex, J'onn, Wynn, Jimmy, and the character relationships that appeal to that audience. Instead they get CatCo without the CatCo people, the DEO without the DEO cast, Kara's adoptive parents but completely different people with the same names, and so forth. They're looking for the Kara/Alex sister team, and grumpy but loving Dad J'onn and getting something entirely different.<br /><br />And the long time Supergirl comic readers are getting what amounts to a reboot, with none of the characters or storylines they had been following. Kara is now relearning lessons we thought she'd already learned, and we have a set of locales and characters attached to her the reader has no reason to care about because they weren't introduced as part of a story. They're just here.<br /><br />I don't think the book is bad, it's just badly missing the audience. It's trying to hit the target of the original readers of Supergirl and the target of the TV viewership, but instead it's not really hitting either. Gates "Adventures of Supergirl" decided to be entirely about the TV universe, and it was a success. This book is trying for both universes and instead winds up being about neither.<br /><br />For me this is a textbook example of how to blow a relaunch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-677155041703819192016-12-15T15:10:58.907-05:002016-12-15T15:10:58.907-05:00"I wonder if the whole "Zor El is the Cy..."I wonder if the whole "Zor El is the Cyborg Superman"plot however well handled is too much of a downer storyline for a character generally noted for her inspirational qualities and optimism."<br /><br />That may be another factor. Not everyone will like a story in which Supergirl's father is turned into a mad cyborg who tries to kill a lot of people for his daughter's "good".<br /><br />By the way, after reading this week's issue's ending I have a suggestion for a back issue review: some Pre-Crisis issue showing Supergirl's birth and foster parents trying to get along for their daughter's sake. Maybe Action Comics #310, #314 or Superman Family #188?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-35047644445882610252016-12-15T14:06:53.213-05:002016-12-15T14:06:53.213-05:00Well, it seems like these days, DC Comics is too b...Well, it seems like these days, DC Comics is too busy trying to sell future event comics, rather than a Supergirl regular DCU series....which sort of begs the question of why they are bothering, and didn't just keep the TV tie-in book Sterling Gates was writing last year. Or perhaps a monthly S-book seems like an afterthought of a forgotten era, when they are busy being preoccupied by bi-weeklies now. Marketing just seems to be dropping the ball on the monthly format in general. <br /><br /><br />As for the comic itself, Brian Ching's artwork on Supergirl works fine by me, but I keep waiting for Steve Orlando's initial story arc to get out of 'second gear', so to speak. I'll wait for this week's issue review to say more on that. <br /><br />KETKEThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13797904604074311480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-73523040448107590952016-12-15T12:33:46.407-05:002016-12-15T12:33:46.407-05:00I wonder if the whole "Zor El is the Cyborg S...I wonder if the whole "Zor El is the Cyborg Superman"plot however well handled is too much of a downer storyline for a character generally noted for her inspirational qualities and optimism.<br />Or it could be the artwork which again I like but its also a little unconventional.....just sayin'<br />Hopefully sales will stabilize, I wonder if they'll resort to putting Melissa Benoist's adorable punim on the covers as a photo...that might bump sales.<br />JF<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-17235750208389484972016-12-15T09:31:31.359-05:002016-12-15T09:31:31.359-05:00I agree. It's worrying, especially when you co...I agree. It's worrying, especially when you consider the main Superman books are selling well.<br /><br />Maybe the art is a turnoff. Or maybe Supergirl being completely cut off from the rest of the DCverse is being detrimental to her book. Seriously, she doesn't appear anywhere but her book. Kara didn't turn up in the last Christmas Special. Superman, his family and his dog starred in several stories, New freaking Superman starred in a story... and Supergirl was not featured. And Superman told that he and his son were the last Kryptonians.<br /><br />Action Comics and Superman's current runs are getting love, attention and sales... and Supergirl is a non-factor. Superman's current run is focused on his beloved family... and Supergirl is apparently not a member of it. He doesn't even think about his cousin.<br /><br />I'm getting seriously annoyed about it.<br /><br />You'd think that Supergirl would be everywhere since she stars in a moderately successful tv show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com