tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post6099688666312805486..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Quick Hits: Super Sons/Dynomutt and Supergirl Being SuperAnjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-25867788318930465912018-06-12T08:29:26.520-04:002018-06-12T08:29:26.520-04:00"This reminds me of something I've though..."This reminds me of something I've thought about occasionally. It's kind of trivial, but here goes. When cousin Supergirl turned up in Action Comics 252, how come Superman didn't immediately think that Jimmy Olsen had somehow found a way to get that Magic Totem working again?"<br /><br />Supposedly it was declared that story never happened rather instead of being an imaginary story.<br /><br />Ironically, it fits the pattern: every Supergirl has been forgotten and/or retconned out: Lucy of Borgonia? Forgotten. Super-Girl? Never happened. Kara Zor-El? Killed off, retconned out of existence and forgotten. Matrix? Put on a bus and forgotten. Laurel Gand? Retconned out of existence. Kara of planet Odiline? Forgotten. Linda Danvers? Put on a bus, forgotten and retconned out. Post-Crisis Kara? Retconned out.<br /><br />We'll see what happens to current mainstream Kara.<br /><br />"the story itself seems to be saying that having a Supergirl around would be a super-headache for Clark and cause him nothing but misery."<br /><br />True. How ironic given WB/DC's stance since the 80's.<br /><br />"Still, I would have loved to see more of the Newt-like Kara."<br /><br />Maybe Supergirl's incoming direction would be a good opportunity to review it: "Hey, guys, did you know in the middle 90's Superman underwent a space mission with a completely different Kara?"<br /><br />Anyway... in the middle 90's, Superman's writers introduced a dog named Krypto... who wasn't Kryptonian... a city in a bottle named Kandor... which wasn't Kryptonian but an alien ghetto... a blonde, blue-eyed alien girl named Kara, born in a city named Argo City... and neither she was Kara Zor-El nor Argo was a Kryptonian city.<br /><br />Around that time DC should have thought hard about what they were doing and told: "You know what? This is getting silly and ridiculous. Let's drop that "sole survivor" ten-year-old policy because it's run its course and is holding back the franchise at this point".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-29565337048642230742018-06-12T07:28:26.471-04:002018-06-12T07:28:26.471-04:00Interesting points about both the Aliens mini and ...Interesting points about both the Aliens mini and Superman 123.<br /><br />I wonder if it would have been hard to insert a character from a cross-company crossover into the DCU proper. And the mini came out in the mid-90s, well after Matrix was ensconced in the continuity.<br /><br />Still, I would have loved to see more of the Newt-like Kara.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-32258584598994258542018-06-12T02:50:29.751-04:002018-06-12T02:50:29.751-04:00"Even though Superman swore he'd never fo..."Even though Superman swore he'd never forget her and kept a picture he never mentioned her again, not even bringing her up when his cousin made it to Earth."<br /><br />This reminds me of something I've thought about occasionally. It's kind of trivial, but here goes. When cousin Supergirl turned up in Action Comics 252, how come Superman didn't immediately think that Jimmy Olsen had somehow found a way to get that Magic Totem working again? Or that "Super-Girl" on her own was able to get back from that limbo she had vanished into? You would think the idea would have flashed through his mind, if only for a split second.<br /><br />Oh, I know...stories were more or less stand-alone in those days, and past events (even recent ones) referenced only when necessary, but it would have been interesting. I wonder if they ever considered bringing back the Totem Super-Girl to have her meet Kara.<br /><br />And while it's acknowledged that the story in Superman 123 was something of a test to gauge whether readers would welcome a Supergirl character, the story itself seems to be saying that having a Supergirl around would be a super-headache for Clark and cause him nothing but misery.Professor Feetlebaumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-10577147958152803082018-06-11T16:29:32.962-04:002018-06-11T16:29:32.962-04:00"I love the Superman/Aliens mini and hope to ..."I love the Superman/Aliens mini and hope to get a Nowlan commission because of it."<br /><br />I wonder... If that Lt. Ripley-like Kara would have stuck around, we'd gotten PAD's Linda Danvers? And she'd been eventually retconned into being Kara Zor-El?<br /><br />"I have thought many times of reviewing it. I'll get to it eventually, I'm sure."<br /><br />So much Supergirl stuff, so little time. :)<br /><br />By the way, I didn't know this existed:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/kara_querl/status/1006140285334773760Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-32439735925885951612018-06-11T10:06:35.503-04:002018-06-11T10:06:35.503-04:00Only very recently I had a vague memory of that No...Only very recently I had a vague memory of that Not Our Kara story and managed to track that memory down to the Superman vs. Aliens DC/Dark Horse crossover. Agreed, it is a good story with an interesting twist.<br /><br />Mariko Tamaki appeared last week at a local bookstore presentation space, in conversation with Gene Luen Yang - I guess to promote the release of the Being Super TPB. I don't know if she, or they, are going on a tour.<br /><br />She heaped praise on Joelle Jones.<br /><br />The front of the bookstore was filled with rows of Yang's collections and some of Tamaki's too.<br /><br />Mariko was kind enough to autograph my copies of all 4 issues of Being Super. I'll have to check out the back of the TPB to see all the extras.<br /><br />I should have asked if a sequel was planned!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-88536814738018100222018-06-11T08:56:48.559-04:002018-06-11T08:56:48.559-04:00Thanks for comment!
I love the Superman/Aliens mi...Thanks for comment!<br /><br />I love the Superman/Aliens mini and hope to get a Nowlan commission because of it. I have thought many times of reviewing it. I'll get to it eventually, I'm sure.<br /><br />Loved the Streaky episode of JLAction!Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-91642711134353882352018-06-11T08:37:15.990-04:002018-06-11T08:37:15.990-04:00" Who knew you could do a serious Dynomutt bo..." Who knew you could do a serious Dynomutt book?"<br /><br />Who knew, indeed.<br /><br />Those character sheets and designs are very interesting. I'd not mind seeing Kara wearing one of them.<br /><br />The thing is, the classic suit is classic for one reason, and Supergirl sooner or later returns to it because it's iconic, regardless how many online professional whiners who don't even read the comics complain about the skirt.<br /><br />And now I'll go off topic but I'd like commenting some things:<br /><br />- I've just read the 1995 Superman/Aliens crossover written by Dan Jurgens featuring a blonde, blue-eyed, sixteen-year-old alien girl called Kara who wasn't from Krypton, born in a non-Kryptonian floating Argo City whom Superman was treating as his surrogate little sister five minutes after meeting her. Even though Superman swore he'd never forget her and kept a picture he never mentioned her again, not even bringing her up when his cousin made it to Earth. Have you thought of covering that mini or making a post about that other Kara?<br /><br />- Cartoon Network has -at last- aired the last episodes of JL Action. "Unleashed" featured Streaky's debut. What did you think about it?<br /><br />In another order of things, I've realized several early issues of the 2005 book in the DC Wikia are filled with false and outdated information. It must be corrected, but in order to do so I'll have to -shudders- read again Candor and what came after. The things I put myself through for the character... well, regardless that, after going over the sixth issue, I've got to say Sterling Gates "Kryptonite-induced craziness" retcon fits perfectly. Even Power Girl noted Kara was behaving strangely and her fuse was shorter than usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com