Supergirl #59

[superfangirl1]

Comments

[big_daddy_d]

There is something so satisfying about seeing Lois give her sister that verbal smackdown as well as damning her late father. He deserves no sympathy for his part in that slaughter that was so bad that I rooted more for Zod. As for Lucy..shit at least someone is alive to pay for it. Gen. Lane took such a cheap way out and suffered no consequence and I hated it.

[jaybee3]

As much as I like what Gates did for Supergirl the character he still has to take blame for the fallout mess that was New Krypton. And the Lane situation was part of it.

I thought making Lucy Lane, a relatively harmless character whose very existence showed how normal Lois even if she was Mrs. Awesome Superjournalist, a supervillain with superpowers (just as dumb as it was to resurrect Sam Lane, who died a hero loved by his daughters, into a genocidal xenophobe who died like a coward by his own hand rather than stand trial).

Instead of having Linda Danvers (who was Supergirl in all those big 90s stories) return as Superwoman, they make Lucy Lane (Lois' sister, Superman's sister-in-law) the biggest Supergirl villain (a bit too coincidental no?) all the while seemingly retconning out her marriage to Ron Troupe and her son Sam Troupe, all of which played a part in stories that are still part of continuity! What was the point?

[big_daddy_d]

just as dumb as it was to resurrect Sam Lane, who died a hero loved by his daughters, into a genocidal xenophobe who died like a coward by his own hand rather than stand trial).

Sam by far turned out worst. He became a Thunderbolt Ross clone and hell for a time I thought "Hey, at least Ross wouldn't turn his daughter into a monster.."... until Red She-Hulk that is..so now he's definitely 100% unredeemable asshole. It seemed like even Smallville was adapting this version of him but thankfully his Smallville counterpart was more open minded and had more sense. His return from death took a huge dump on the respectable, heroic death he originally had and even now we got retcons that show him to be an ass all along, further tarnishing his character.

[pyrotwilight]

Actually, isn't even Ross better than Lane? I thought Ross didn't know his daughters involvement with the color Hulk business since he didn't know who Red She-Hulk was.

[big_daddy_d]

If that's the case, then he is indeed better than Lane...albeit still a hypocrite and ass.

[rickperry]

I don't know why DC is being so negative towards Linda Danvers. She has a huge following and it's stupid of them to not at least include her into Kara's life as a guide. She would be able to help a hell of a lot more than Lana Lang.

[jaybee3]

It's ironic from what we're shown that Lana is more interested in being a mother figure to Kara than she is than being an actual mother to her toddler son who was shuffled off to Smallville to live with Pete. And it doesn't help that (thanks to stinky past stories about Lana's motivation in doing things like Chuck Austen's run) it may be surmised that a large part of Lana's interest in Kara is about her connection to Clark and Lana keeping that connection.

Linda however is a 20something adult whose connection to Clark and Lois is benign (in case anyone like Lex is looking hard) who already knows a different version of Kara (the one from the Silver Age she bonded with), has all Matrix's memories (and hence memories of the Kent Farm) and looks different enough that the two Supergirls would never get confused. Who would DC have us believe was the Supergirl character that pops up in all those 90s stories like the Death/Reign/Return of Superman if Linda didn't exist?

[rickperry]

You took the words out of my mouth. Let's start a "Bring back Linda" rally.

[jlbarnett]

well, I think they did a scene from the Return of Superman recently, can't remember where though. And she wasn't there.

[hero_of_lallor]

You would prefer them making Linda a Supergirl villain? Superwoman was never going to be a good character during New Krypton and how stupid would it be to downgrade Kara by having her predeccessor take a title above her. It would be madness.