Supergirl #38 review

Kara’s Crucible adventure continues with her fighting alongside fellow students Maxima, Comet and Tsavo to protect the latter’s homeworld, Ngo. But that’s not how the book opens. In a cute switch, the first narrator isn’t Kara, but Kon – Superboy, back on Earth after three years of being battered by dodgy editorial directions. He’s in […]

Supergirl #37 review

Kara Zor-El is settling into the Crucible, training academy for the best and brightest young super-beings in the galaxy. She’s getting to know her study group members, Tsavo, Maxima and Comet, and learning that classes may be about more than they seem. Away from the lecture theatres, school heads Preceptor Amata and Korstus meet with […]

Supergirl #36 review

Having recently decided to make the best of life on Earth, Kara is making real efforts to integrate. She’s taken a job in a coffee shop, doing her own laundry, getting the shopping and basically trying to fit in. A tough day at work – why are coffee steamers sooo delicate? – isn’t helped when […]

Supergirl: Futures End #1 review

It’s five years from now and Supergirl is gone, supplanted by a Cyborg Supergirl who can barely remember ever being human. She’s united with the Cyborg Superman in a quest to find a world that can be transformed into a new Krypton, complete with ‘upgraded’ inhabitants. As cosmic upcyclers, they’ve failed so far, but Cyborg […]

Supergirl #33 review

A wonderful last page. That’s what this finale to the Red Daughter storyline has. I whooped, I smiled. Writer Tony Bedard has delivered on his promise to put some light into Kara’s life He does it literally, as well as metaphorically, as Kara uses the power of Earth’s yellow sun to best Worldkiller-1, the sentient […]

Supergirl #32 review

Still a Red Lantern, Kara is on her way back to Earth. While she’s fitted in with the gang, leader Guy Gardner wants her to go to planet Mogo to see if the ring can be safely removed. But she’s not having it, she likes that the red energy makes her feel part of something.After […]

Supergirl #31 review

Supergirl is no longer the newest Red Lantern. As this issue opens she’s accompanying Guy Gardner and co as they try to track down the newcomer, hoping to recruit her before rival Atrocitus. She finally finds the latest Lantern, whose confusion and background has her manifesting her red energy to judge every citizen of the […]