Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Countdown #44 - Crisis On Infinite Earths #7 Moment


There are some times my life as a comic blogger takes me down odd rabbit holes.

First of all, I was shocked to discover that for some reason, I still have all 52 issues of Countdown in my collection. I thought for sure they were purged.

Then, as part of my #LeviathanTheory I decided to head into Countdown to look at Monarch. Just scanning covers, I decided to open up Countdown #44.

In the back of that issue (and in preceding issues) was a backup strip written and drawn by Dan Jurgens reviewing the multiverse.

This included a pretty detailed look back at all the prior JLA/JSA annual team-ups with flash back and homage panels done with usual Jurgens love.

But if this is a story reviewing the multiverse, it has to go to Crisis on Infinite Earths.


Sure enough there are several pages recapping the Crisis story in a pithy way.

This includes this dramatic page retelling the events of Crisis #7, 8, and 10.


As someone who thinks I have covered every possible angle of Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, I am amazed when I stumble across another mention or retelling of Supergirl's sacrifice.

And how great to see Jurgens' take on that famous scene.

I have said before that I have come to accept Supergirl's death as a huge moment in comics history which shows what a hero she is. I don't know if she needed to die. But the moment is tremendous.

But I am more amazed about the cosmic karma, the comic synchronicity that needed to happen for me to re-find this. Countdown is still in my collection!
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2019 at 9:59 AM

    I haven't read Countdown, but from what I've heard, I'm not feeling inclined to.

    Maybe I would have been willing to accept her death if her existence hadn't been erased and banned short afterwards. Said retconning took her death's impact away.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2019 at 11:52 PM

    If I'm not mistaken, Countdown #32 features Supergirl and Cassie, underage and trying their hardest to get drinks at Black Canary's bachelorette party - or something like that. Wonder Woman lectures them; Zatanna turns their margaritas into ginger ale; then they get some of the real stuff and it makes them immediately sick. It was pretty funny.

    On the cover - Stargirl and Supergirl pleading with a bouncer to get in, with a male stripper in view performing for the assembled crowd of costumed women. (He should be paying them!)

    But I didn't read most of Countdown and couldn't tell you what it was about.

    T.N.

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  3. GarySeptember 18, 2019 at 11:43 AM

    Thanks, Anj - I'll be adding that to my COIE #7 homage page shortly!

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