silkcuts's Supergirl #1 - Last Daughter of Krypton review

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    Why Superman is not "Super" when others are "Super" as well.

    One of the problems with the "Superman family" books is that the connection to Superman is what makes then become shadows to the main book.  Superboy in some ways breaks out of it, since he is part "Luthor", but Supergirl is just a female Superman.  My Project 500 was a community relay review where we reviewed Crisis on Infinite Earths and the series was important because it cleaned house.  Superman was Special again since he was the only "Super" anything and the Flash was not Barry Allan anymore, since he messes up time too much.
     
    I pointed out Supergirls "Death" because it was important that Superman was the only Super anything. When Supergirl came back before the 52 she didn't fit in right in my opinion, was she stronger then her cousin?  Was she faster?  Etc?  Superman was not Super exclusive again and with the new 52 it seems they are trying to explain Supergirl in this newer mythos riddled down and tweaked because DC lost legal ownership to some of the mythos.
     
    With the actual Superman title not released yet, the appearance of Kal-El all over the 52 is really building up to the importance of this new version of Superman.  Superboy is presented as a test subject, Supergirl is confused, while Superman loves, it is a very interesting Super trinity the DC creative staff is positioning at each other.  This book ends off clear that the Cousins will have conflict which is good they are getting to the meat and potatoes of the questions at hand: "So where do they stand?  For or against Humans?"
     
    I do want to mention that this books is "accessible" and plays upon our old knowledge of the old history and how it has now changed.  For a new reader this is smooth storytelling, for an older fan it is bitter-sweet that the family of El is still DC, but some history is lost and it is not just in the legacy of the numbers.
     
    It appears the "Super" books are the books that set the core of the universe.  I was concerned it would be the Lantern books with the 52 relaunch since Geoff Johns is King of recontinuity and the Green Lanterns.  I say that the "Super" books become the core of the universe since this will tie-into Superman for sure and there is a scene in which Supergirl "hears" things happening in "real-time" from different books, like the part from Nightwing suggesting he is a murder, which might tip the hat that that is going to be a huge arc to come.
     
    The arc was good and it was nice that the story was both strong conveying emotions in the face as well as the kinetic superhero fighting that makes Superheroes as a genre that drive the medium known as comic books.
     
    This was not my favorite of the week, but it was a strong introducting to the "Armoured- ELs"  Yeah I called them that.
    Cheers
    - Silkcuts

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