Supergirl #8 review

How’s that for a captivating cover? Hallowe’en is past but Christmas is also a time for spooky stories, and Supergirl is certainly confronted by a ghost from the past here. This is not your average ghost, being cyber rather than spectral, but Supergirl is a very strange and special girl so why wouldn’t she be […]

Supergirl #7 review

It’s Thanksgiving Day in Midvale and Supergirl’s adoptive parents, Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers, are preparing a feast for family and friends, furry and otherwise. As her friend Lesla-Lar tries to get her head around US Thanksgiving traditions, Supergirl is dealing with weightier… sorry wetter, matters. Diving into the sea to try out her new gills […]

Supergirl #6 review

Supergirl isn’t in Midvale anymore. And she’s not alone. The cloaked figure and demons fade, and Kara finds herself in a more familiar setting. A familiar setting, but still unsettling, as figures from her brief time as a blood-vomiting Red Lantern appears. And then she finds herself awake and on patrol in Midvale, thanks to […]

Supergirl #5 review

Supergirl takes Lesla Lar to Metropolis for a spot of superheroine training, leaving Lena Luthor to mind the Midvale store. She’s also looking after Super-Pets Krypto, Streaky, Kandy and Tinytano… all of whom abscond the second the girl genius’s back is turned. Bad bunny Kandy begins trying to annoy Krypto, because they first met as […]

Supergirl #4 review

Lesla-Lar, the Supergirl fan who tried to steal Supergirl’s life, is back home in Kandor, facing a court… presided over by her parents, which seems a bit of a conflict of interest. By her side is Kara, also accused of bad behaviour. Supergirl has another suggestion – she believes Lesla has the makings of a […]

Supergirl #3 review

Crazy Kandor kid Lesla-Lar wants Supergirl’s life. She’s hypnotised Kara’s Earth parents and convinced the town of Midvale she’s the real deal. Kara’s regular costume having been vandalised by Lesla, she’s resorted to an older look and is doing good regardless. A little super-vision spying has Supergirl guessing where Lesla’s head is at, and she […]

Supergirl #2 review

Supergirl, this is your life… and Lesla-Lar has stolen it. A young woman from Kandor who’s been saved by Supergirl, Lesla is a mixed-up kid, her low-self esteem turning her into one twisted sister. Via a combination of Earth’s gravity and yellow sun, and the super-skin she invented, Lesla has become a ‘better’ version of […]

Supergirl #1 review

It’s just another day for Supergirl. In Metropolis, the Maid of Might has a whale of a time seeing off an over-ambitious bad girl. And in the bottle city of Kandor, a rescued young woman gets all starry eyed. The furry pink fella being carried in Kara’s expandable cape is Lar-On, like Kara an Argo […]

Superman Red and Blue #6 review

Cards on the table, I bought the first issue of this anthology because I love Superman. The promise of timeless material, stories unconstrained by current continuity, was irresistible. And I still haven’t read the darn thing. There’s something about the USP – stories in which the title colours are to the fore – that puts […]