Supergirl #52

[hero_of_lallor]

Revelations in this issue
-Supergirl in dead in Brainy's timeline, presumably in line with her death in crisis in legion chronology.
-The Brainy/Supergirl storyline continues in the Annual in Autumn which I guess will be the 3rd telling of 'Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends'
-Why Una and Karate Kid don't recognise her in the Countdown tie-ins goes unexplained

Comments

[cleome45]

I'd look it up for you, if my comics weren't sitting 3,000 miles from here. Right before the Sensor Girl revelation. He's mooning, and needing a haircut. The Fatal Five (???) attacks. That's all I remember.

I'm pretty much in the camp that it's okay to have more than one Love of Your Life, personally. I'm working harder at channeling this belief into more OT3s and multiships, uh... at least as regards fandom. IRL, I've neither the time or determination to pursue that kind of thing in the proper manner. :D

[greenygal]

Aha, #25. Thanks; I was looking in entirely the wrong place.

I'm pretty much in the camp that it's okay to have more than one Love of Your Life, personally.

See, I believe this; I'm just not convinced that Brainy does. And Lyle died well before Kara, so... Although I could probably buy it as them being friends and colleagues whose relationship occasionally got physical, rather than dating per se.

(In v4 I totally ship Brainy/Andromeda/Rond, but it'd have to be way AU and I'm pretty sure Brainy would still be the one having the hardest time with the whole concept.)

[cleome45]

Glad I could be of some (small) help.

Now I'm wondering if anyone ever stated that Colu had some official policy regarding monogamy.* Damned if I can remember...

I still like the idea of Brainy/Kara, but seriously-- trying to keep track right now of what did happen/will happen/is happening/once happened but has now sort of un-happened (or moved to another dimension) is seriously hurting my head. I shouldn't get mad at the characters, though. It's not their fault.

*Also, the contrarian in me remembers Original Recipe Brainy as written by Levitz as being pretty vehemently atheistic. Which makes me totally want to read Brainy/IK2 or Brainy/Dawnstar. ("Show up for the romantic angst. Stay for the planet-rending theological debates.") :p

[greenygal]

I don't think we've ever heard anything about Coluans, re: monogamy, because we hardly ever hear anything about Coluans as a society at all, and specifically not their views on sex and reproduction. Mainly we just get to judge by Brainy--who generally gets so intense about romance that whether his society is monogamous is hard to tell, because he himself is only interested in one person at a time--and Vril, who is even less representative and is usually focusing on other things.

They make my head hurt, too, especially since it's apparently now a retroactive ship where it's happened for one of them but not the other, and that's always hard to get a emotional grip on.

Hmm. I don't think Brainy/Dawnstar would work out for that very reason. She doesn't necessarily need to date a believer, unless Wildfire was devout and they just never mentioned, but someone who is actively opposed to the idea that there is a deity...that would be problematic, and I don't even think it would get to any kind of detailed debate. Brainy might want to try, but Dawny would be going, no, this is what I believe, and who are you to tell me I'm wrong. It would probably wind up needing to be a subject they didn't discuss if they wanted to stay together. (Also, needless to say, Dawny dating another Legionnaire, any other Legionnaire, would lead to explosions, but eventually Wildfire would get over it. Eventually.) Jacques I could see being more willing to agree to disgree, and while he's not especially the debating type, I could envision it as a recurrent source of friendly and occasionally not-so-friendly disagreement over their lives. I have trouble actually seeing Brainy with Levitz's Jacques, though--I think the frequent self-esteem issues would wear on him; Brainy usually goes for people who are as self-assured as he is. (Which is actually a point in preboot Lyle's favor.)