tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post7930074260460948722..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Back Issue Box Review: Supergirl #5Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-52669724651904353482022-03-11T17:51:11.807-05:002022-03-11T17:51:11.807-05:00I missed this at the time. What nonsense. What fun...I missed this at the time. What nonsense. What fun. So Linda, like Diana and Lois, had diverse roommates, it’s a shame no one but Julie in Lois Lane ever got much to do. <br /><br />So, no on-off super powers, but we get on-off super powers. So many amazing villains in the DCU and Kara gets a generic pseudo-Satan. Hey Ho, it’s is nice to see Arnold Drake’s name, and John Rosenberger’s elegant lines were always good to encounter. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-21216551285380074322022-03-10T01:03:43.438-05:002022-03-10T01:03:43.438-05:00Thank you for finally reviewing this. Arnold Drake...Thank you for finally reviewing this. Arnold Drake's two Supergirl issues in this run were an enjoyable relief from CaryBates' bad Supergirl romance comics. Some parts of this story are ridiculous, but Supergirl using her wits to undo a villain is always fun. I agree that Drake's off-the-wall sensibility could have given us some interesting and original Supergirl stories. Letting Drake be her regular writer or keeping Eliot Maggin as her writer during her Superman Family run might have given her the creative boost she needed in the mid to late '70s to vault into the first string of DC superheroes. William Ashley Vaughannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-78535172960943636202022-03-09T21:57:25.190-05:002022-03-09T21:57:25.190-05:00There is so much sheer chaos, cheesecake and nonse...There is so much sheer chaos, cheesecake and nonsense in the 1972 solo book, its hard to get any perspective at all on it, save to be somewhat dismissive of a run that foreshadowed the character’s slow decline and downfall...but you’ve heard that all too often from me, da hell with it. No, I am gonna suggest that Arnold Drake might’ve been Supergirl’s missed opportunity writer back in the day...yes Dax is a cookie cutter alien warlord, but Drake’s standout title “The Doom Patrol” was full of them, it was the team’s dynamics and tensions that brought the readers back month after month. Plus Drake’s greatest creation Rita Farr “Elasti-girl”, the closest thing to an emancipated woman in all the silver age. How I wish he could’ve brought some of Rita’s oomph to this book. Despite a contrived storyline, Kara does manage to master the situation (although we do learn she never leaves home without tiny sleeping gas bombs on her person) and depose a tyrant. And she didn’t fall in love with anyone at all, stern puritanical work ethic from this Supergirl indeed. Dax didn’t deserve a rematch but Drake should have had another shot at Supergirl...<br /><br />JFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-77777036310696727772022-03-09T20:20:28.468-05:002022-03-09T20:20:28.468-05:00"The Devil's Brother" was also the t..."The Devil's Brother" was also the title of a 1933 Laurel and Hardy film. But aside from Supergirl finding herself in something of another nice mess, there doesn't seem to be any other connection.<br /><br />Still, I wonder if Arnold Drake might have seen the movie and "borrowed" the title.<br /><br />It looks like there were possibly some deadline problems with this issue. The Zatanna backup is a reprint from Hawkman #4 (1964).<br /><br />"This one has just about everything."<br /><br />Yes, the only thing missing here was "Bad Boyfriend". Somehow, that one slipped by.Professor Feetlebaumnoreply@blogger.com