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Supergirl, Vol. 2: Girl In The World (2013)

by Michael Green(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401240879 (ISBN13: 9781401240875)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

DC Comics

series

Supergirl Vol. VI

review 1: In Michael Green’s Supergirl Volume 2: Girl in the World, we see Kara make friends, have a family reunion, and make more enemies. The mystery of her appearance on earth begins to unfold, and Kara must decide what kind of force she will be on her new planet. This volume is significantly better than the first, and it is good to see Kara begin to emerge as a character and begin to make choices. In the first volume, she was not really in actor, but a reactor. In that context, it was difficult to get involved in her story. As she begins to build relationships, her story begins to become a story. This title becomes more promising.
review 2: More than maybe any of the other DC books, SUPERGIRL seems like an ongoing serial narrative, lacking but not needing periodic... more arc conclusions. Green and Johnson instead seem to explore one question situation-by-situation: what do you do when you wake up with all of the powers of Superman and your entire world gone?There were are couple of things about this volume that I thought improved upon the first: the mythos of Krypton, and the circumstance of Kara's alternate path to Earth, came into play to just the right extent. Without having to reinvent Krypton, Green and Johnson give us a lot of memory and dream contexts, underscored nicely in issue #12 with a full-on deep dive into the ocean itself in search for that lost knowledge. The dream sequences from her own pre-pod memory were terrific, featuring an actual dragon and the full dragonslaying motif. If there's a better metaphor for an impossible situation, human storytellers haven't discovered one, and Green and Johnson go all in on its familiar role in building the discourse of heroics. Kara gets battle armor and what can only be described as a pair of Kryptonian lightsabers for her own battle against the monster, both of which are awesome and not as weird or out of place in as they should be in the story, but the context of father-daughter legacies as well as the quest for lost knowledge makes them more appropriate than not. I thought the episodes dealing with the Smythe family and Kara's role in resolving that conflict was a nice, thematically-related and well-told passage of story, one that continued to focus on the key issues of the character: violence, language and displacement. The whole book does a terrific job of balancing these elements as it works to explain and deal with the story structures that the first volume (issues #1-7) established. Additionally, the zero issue flashback was a really enjoyable look at how Kara ended up in the pod that brought her to Earth, and the manner in which it clarified her conversation with the red crystal back in V1 was a nice gesture on the part of the writers to fulfill promises made earlier in the story--it affords them the reader's confidence, especially as earlier plot elements begin to come back under higher-stakes circumstances.The artwork again struggles to find its footing, as the color stylings keep changing. Mahmoud Asrar does great work, but as there's no consistency from issue to issue as to how they are colored, the storytelling suffers a bit from it. Tonally, the watercolors are best, because the faint haziness links into the sense of displacement that Kara feels waking up as she has. When the colors become more monochromatic, the pages become a little sharper and the story doesn't flow as well--this will continue to be an issue for the book going forward, and it is my hope that the artwork finds a consistent look as questions are answered and the realms of exploration that Kara can venture into are expanded. less

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