What happened to Supergirl in WWIII?

[jgphenom]

Ok. Maybe I'm just not getting it but I'm confused about what it was exactly that happened to Supergirl in WWIII. This is what I got out of it. Please tell me if I'm wrong because I'm not sure if it makes any real sense:

During Infinite Crisis she gets teleported into the Legion of Super-Heroes' future via the Zeta beam. Somehow, after her run on Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes, she gets teleported back into our time. Here's where I'm confused. Apparently there are two of her that get teleported back. It looks like both Supergirls are insubstantial ghosts. One of them manages to fly through Martian Manhunter and becomes solid again and falls to the Earth. Then Power Girl takes her away and eventually they both wind up on Kandor.

Am I right? Then, why were there 2 Supergirls that bame back? Why were they insubstantial? How did Martian Manhunter make her solid? How do you explain Kara being so nice in the Legion and so angst-ridden in the present? And most importantly, where has the 2nd insubstantial Supergirl been for the last year?

Any help would be appreciated. :)

[DonC]

Are there two of her? I thought it was just that the one who fell to Earth was the same one in the Legion. She comes back from the future, and gets picked up by Powergirl. Then they go off and have their One Year Later fun.

Different attitudes = different writers.

[PaulTiberius]

I think you're both missing some points. In WWIII #2, there are two identical images of Supergirl coming out of the future. I was confused as to what that was supposed to mean until the frontisepiece of WWIII #3 confirmed that yes, two of her arrived. What that's supposed to mean for the future, I have no idea. It just makes things more confusing at the moment.

Regarding her being insubstantial, I didn't read it that way at all. Martian Manhunter is the one who can become insubstantial. I just assumed she passed through him because he was in sort of a trance state and not fully in control of his tangibility powers at that moment.

[jgphenom]

Regarding her being insubstantial, I didn't read it that way at all. Martian Manhunter is the one who can become insubstantial. I just assumed she passed through him because he was in sort of a trance state and not fully in control of his tangibility powers at that moment.
She kinda looked to me like the colors she was drawn with were sort of hazy or just too light until she passed through Martian Manhunter. It looks like that's when she became solid. Plus, when she materialized in our time she's drawn with some lines coming off of her like a bad transmission or something.

[carabas]

I think you're both missing some points. In WWIII #2, there are two identical images of Supergirl coming out of the future. I was confused as to what that was supposed to mean until the frontisepiece of WWIII #3 confirmed that yes, two of her arrived. What that's supposed to mean for the future, I have no idea.
Maybe someone finally noticed that the freakshow Doomsday-hybrid pseudo-evil would-be Kal-El-killer Supergirl doesn't really work in any way at all, and that they will use this to fix her.

[MazingMan728]

I agree that the Supergirl things was a bit confusing. She goes to the future, fine. She comes back, fine. She is flying next to herself, what??? Maybe it has to do with the Multiverse.

[jgphenom]

In WWIII #2, there are two identical images of Supergirl coming out of the future. I was confused as to what that was supposed to mean until the frontisepiece of WWIII #3 confirmed that yes, two of her arrived.
Hmmm... guess I missed that summary in WWIII #3. So there were 2 of her and one might still be lost in space.

So I guess the story goes like this:
Supergirl gets teleported into the future via Zeta beam after Infinite Crisis. She spends some time with the Legion of Super-Heroes (currently in Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes) and is eventually teleported back in time one year (minus 2 weeks) after the Zeta beam incident in Infinite Crisis. During the time travel back she is split into her good and evil halves (as seen in Supergirl #3-5) and returns as two "ghosts". The evil (or not so good) Supergirl becomes solid after she passe through Martian Manhunter. Then she falls to Earth and is carried away (to Kandor presumably) by Power Girl. The good Supergirl is still floating somewhere in space.

Anybody want to weigh in on this one?

[jerrymcl89]

I kind of thought that what they were portraying was one Supergirl returning to earth, and a second one going into the future. Which would remove the need to end her presence in LOSH eventually, and explain why the current Supergirl doesn't seem to have much memory of having been there.

[dupersuper]

As long as they made it good and confusing...

[dupersuper]

Curse you, double post!!