lurkerwithout | Sunday Trade: SuperGirl (Reply)

SuperGirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade written by Landry Q. Walker, drawn by Eric Jones, colored by Joey Manson and lettered by Pat Brosseau, Travis Lanham & Sal Cipriano

I'll be honest I've never been all that interested in SuperGirl. Not the classic pre-Crisis one or the other dimensional shapeshifter/hybrid angel one or the moody, annoying current one. I'm sure they all had some decent stories but I had no drive to hunt them down then I do any of dozens of other DC properties. But Walker manages to do something that is all too often lacking from the super-hero books of the Big Two. Present a story thats fun...

Here Kara arrives on Earth after accidentally getting into space aboard a Kyrptonian rocket. From the the colony of Kandor thats located in a pocket dimension, where it ended up after Krypton's destruction. So Superman, after letting her know he can't just send her home, gets her a secret identity as Linda Lee and puts her in school so she can get used to her new powers and Earth culture. Where everyone hates her of course. Or at least laughs at her all the time...

Soon enough though SuperGirl is dealing with a kind-of-evil twin, a strange new best friend, a super-powered cat, lots of glowing meteorites and of course, continuing to be crushingly un-popular. With only six-issues you get killer anti-Superman vehicles, time travel, magic imps, mind control, Kryptonite, clones, flying pets, heroism, teen angst and a dude who turns into an ice cream cone. So yeah. Fun...