Supergirl #32 (spoilers)

[kaelikins]

Okay... I'd been actually enjoying this storyline thus far... but is anyone else thoroughly confused by the ridiculous device used in this issue?

Here's what I took from it... with the little boy dead, Kara vows she'll find some way to bring him back. Flash forward to 50 years in the future, where Kara is on her way to intercept a time-traveling baddie. He evades her several times by popping back in time by a few minutes, then weeks, months, and eventually years... and it appears that Kara has just been hanging out in space in the years preceding, just waiting for him to pop in so she could thwart him. This made my head hurt.

She doesn't use the time travel device once she has it, she doesn't go back to try to fix her mistakes, she instead tries to bring the device to the boy's parents. Only, of course, the poor kid's parents aren't alive anymore... it's been 50 years! She then crushes the device without using it, ready to "move on".

But the book doesn't continue 50 years in the future, the next issue is clearly back in our own era (note the costume difference)... but isn't Kara supposed to be spending most of the next half-century waiting in space for this time-skimming madman? Surely she has no time for adventuring.

Sigh. Hopefully this arc will just be forgotten and we'll move on with new and better storylines. On the upside, I did like the art in this issue. And Kara's future costume was neat.

Anybody else as frustrated by this issue as I was?

[Zel]

I browsed this isssue in the store and found it a bit odd as well. Having the future supergirl ready to move on doesn't really do anything for the current supergirl.

Waiting for years in space was kinda badass in a psycho, obsessed kind of way.

Yeah and planning to giving the time jumper to the parents so they could could go back in time and watch their kid die again, re-opening all those old wounds... wow, she's a moron.

[DarkCrisis]

Yea the whole time traveling thing made like no sense.

[sabongero]

Kelly Puckett sure is hitting his stride now on this series. I hope he gets a chance to have Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) make a guest appearance in this series. I am sure it would be a great issue to read under Kelly Puckett, as he knows the Batgirl character really well. After all he wrote her when he was the scribe of the now defunct Batgirl series.

But Supergirl seems to have rebounded nicely from the confusion that was this title from all the different writers and several changes of direction. I'm glad Kelly Puckett is on the title.

[Lupek]

It was allright. I liked the art, especially Kara's future outfit. But like Supergirl I am ready to move on...to whatever Johns and company have in store.

Ya know, if they took the shoulder pads off of that 50 years future costume that would be an terrific look for her in the current stories.

[Jack Tango]

Okay... I'd been actually enjoying this storyline thus far... but is anyone else thoroughly confused by the ridiculous device used in this issue?

Here's what I took from it... with the little boy dead, Kara vows she'll find some way to bring him back. Flash forward to 50 years in the future, where Kara is on her way to intercept a time-traveling baddie. He evades her several times by popping back in time by a few minutes, then weeks, months, and eventually years... and it appears that Kara has just been hanging out in space in the years preceding, just waiting for him to pop in so she could thwart him. This made my head hurt.

She doesn't use the time travel device once she has it, she doesn't go back to try to fix her mistakes, she instead tries to bring the device to the boy's parents. Only, of course, the poor kid's parents aren't alive anymore... it's been 50 years! She then crushes the device without using it, ready to "move on".

But the book doesn't continue 50 years in the future, the next issue is clearly back in our own era (note the costume difference)... but isn't Kara supposed to be spending most of the next half-century waiting in space for this time-skimming madman? Surely she has no time for adventuring.

Sigh. Hopefully this arc will just be forgotten and we'll move on with new and better storylines. On the upside, I did like the art in this issue. And Kara's future costume was neat.

Anybody else as frustrated by this issue as I was?

To be honest, I skimmed it at first and was quite confused. Upon a second reading, it made perfect sense.

One thing of note, though, she didn't go to the parents' house 50 years in the future. The bad guy (who made SUCH an impression on me that I've completely forgotten his name -- Rolok or something?) kept bopping backwards through time; Kara finally defeated him x number of years in the past (add up all the time jumps listed in the narration boxes).

Still, yeah, they were totally dead.

[KET]

But Supergirl seems to have rebounded nicely from the confusion that was this title from all the different writers and several changes of direction.

Could've fooled me. I still think it reads like the continuing and confusing adventures of a dim-bulb failure of a superheroine. That much seems pretty consistant for the entire length of the series. :frown:



I'm glad Kelly Puckett is on the title.

He's leaving. Thank God. He should go back and save Batgirl (from yet more bad writing) instead.

[Kid Kyoto]

So can anyone post the future costume we're hearing such good things about?

[Mon-el]

I looked through this comic while yesterday at the shop just to see the costume, because of this thread.

I didn't really like it that much. huge v frame on the top with huge shoulder pads holding up the S shield, the rest was just a basic blue one piece dress.

Pretty ugly in my opinion.

Edit: Found Pictures for Kid Kyoto


So can anyone post the future costume we're hearing such good things about?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Mon-el/CBR/sg32pan3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Mon-el/CBR/sg32pan8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Mon-el/CBR/sg32pan9.jpg

[MasterChiefofComics]

The book has been getting better but it's still not in my pull list

The costume was :confused:

[IvCNuB4]

Slap a headband and yellow belt on her and she's almost pre-COIE Kara !

[suttercain]

I found this 'conclusion' to be horrible. This was really, really bad IMO. The whole arc was bad and this ending was a quick way to wrap up crap.

[atomicturtle]

The whole storyline was bad. "I'm Supergirl and I'm going to CURE CANCER AND STOP DEATH." I was shaking my head at every issue for its sheer absurdity.

But, it does make a twisted kind of sense, given the way Kara has been developing across the various titles she's shown up in. By that I mean I agree with this:


I still think it reads like the continuing and confusing adventures of a dim-bulb failure of a superheroine.

I agree. But I think it's intentional. I think they're doing that on purpose, kind of putting her through a Trial By Fire of superheroing. I mean, can anyone really doubt that, since she came back, Supergirl has just been going to the school of hard knocks over and over and over? She's learning to walk before she learns to fly - and in that respect, it's really enjoyable to read.

Clark had the benefit of growing up and having parents. Kara basically got dumped on the planet. The poor girl has no idea who she is or wants to be. Her whole identity is wrapped up in everyone else's (extremely high) expectations of her because of the S on her chest, and she's trying to break free of that while still fulfill it at the same time. It makes for a fascinating character, and it's no surprise that she'd stumble around a lot, learning as she goes - which, of course, is how #32 ended.


Kelly Puckett sure is hitting his stride now on this series. I hope he gets a chance to have Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) make a guest appearance in this series.

She did. #14. Great issue.

And agreed. I love Cassandra Cain. Easily Top 3 in my favorite DCU characters.

[Vic Vega]

Put me in the minority that kinda liked the story.

What I liked about it was that it served to distinguish Kara's morals from Clark. He was raised as an Earthman he has an affinity and understanding for the Status Quo.

Kara doesn't have that. To her why shouldn't she try to cure cancer? She can do pretty much do everything else.

That why her getting to know the people of earth is so important.

Because to her Earth must be like a messed up backwater that she KNOWS she could improve if they'd only let her do it.