Supergirl 1- La Derniere Fille de Krypton

When you are an avid comic book fan who also happens to be friends with people who do a lot of traveling, you often get cool gifts and souvenirs.

A very good friend of mine was recently in Paris and noticed a comic book store just a few blocks from his hotel. He went in and saw this trade - Supergirl, La Derniere Fille de Krypton - and knew he had to grab it for me.

I am a sucker for stuff like this. I have a fun side collection of foreign copies of Supergirl and Superman books. This one is quite slick.

For one, I love the 'non 3D' Supergirl logo. There is something clean about this. Perhaps it being black on the yellow background helps.

And the back cover also is sharp with the black background.

The text I can muddle through with my high school French and deductive skills. It says she comes to Earth to find Superman is not a baby and she has to decide if she will embrace humanity (or something like that).

It opens with a foreword titled 'The Many Lives of the Girl of Steel'.

This would be fascinating for me to get translated because it looks like a primer on all characters who have used moniker Supergirl including Matrix and Cir-El.

Perhaps Supergirl isn't well known over here so this was needed?

As for the book itself, I always hope to one day compare side by side pages so I would learn to speak a new language.

Pages are gorgeous.

As much as I had a hard time with some of the New 52 direction, one thing I never minded was that tremendous Mahmud Asrar art.

And then perhaps my favorite moment from this arc when Supergirl says she has won.

Or in this case 'J'ai gagne!'

I'll put this next to my Italian copy of Superman #16 (first cameo of Matrix) and my Japanese trade of Crisis on Infinite Earths.