Adventures of Supergirl #7 - A Review

A new enemy has trapped Supergirl within a series of dreams - each one taking her to a different reality where she's a different version of Supergirl! Can Kara fight her way through them all to find reality once again?



Sterling Gates' script pays tribute to the many incarnations of Supergirl and offers up some clever nods towards the history of the character. Emanuela Lupacchino's artwork - while wonderful to look at - also skilfully works in some visual irony, such as Kara punching her Red Lantern counterpart from the New 52 universe while declaring that she is sick of punching things. The colors by Hi-Fi are nice and vivid, perfectly enhancing the inks of Ray McCarthy. All in all, this is a fun little comic.

Adventures of Supergirl #6 - A Review

Four times in the past week, Supergirl has had a nightmare - each one worse and more terrifying than the last. Is it just the stress of her recent battle with the technopath Vril Dox? Or is she under a psychic attack by a new enemy?


There are few things more aggravating than a story where it turns out the whole thing was a dream. It's a cheap plot device and it's frequently and insultingly obvious to the reader when it happens. Thankfully, Sterling Gates avoids such cheap trickery in this issue and while the direction of the story is immediately obvious, the way it plays out and the way Kara reacts to the events of the plot are delightfully unexpected.


The artwork by Emanuela Lupacchino helps to add to the odd, dream-like quality of the issue. There are subtle hints in the art about things not being quite right even before such oddities as Vril Dox growing a snake's tongue or Kara seeing her loved ones as vengeful zombies. Inker Ray McCarthy shades the original pencils perfectly. And Hi-Fi do their usual stellar job on the color art.

World's Finest #15 - A Review

World's Finest #15 continues the on-going battle between Power Girl and Huntress against the mysterious villain Desaad.  The issue opens with Power Girl seemingly emerged on the hellish world of Apokolips, having chased Desaad and a hostage Huntress through a strange portal.  The two heroines will have their hands full fighting and evading Desaad's demonic minions!



The artwork by the new creative team is a vast improvement over the past few months.  Inker Guillermo Ortego does a fine job of defining and enhancing the pencils of  Emanuela Lupacchino.  Most recently seen on X-Factor and a number of DC Comics' Ame-Comi specials, Lupacchino has a splendid sense of design and a fine eye for detail, as can be seen in the above scan of a Parademon horde inspired to panic in the face of Power Girl's onslaught.

Under Lupacchino's pencils, Power Girl lives up to her name, looking as strong as she should.  Her Huntress is lither, but still looks like an athlete in a mask rather than a fetish-ware mode with a crossbowl.  This is an especially important consideration given that Huntress spends a good portion of the comic in bondage and the scene with Desaad torturing her could easily have come off as exploitative under a lesser artist.



Thankfully, Paul Levtiz's scripts are as strong as his heroines.  Though our protagonists are in peril throughout the comic, they are never presented as being incompetent and are always confident in the face of danger.  The action doesn't let up for a moment and the climax of this issue builds to an honestly surprising ending.

If you like books with good female protagonists and classic superheroic action, you'll love World's Finest! If you haven't given World's Finest a shot, now is the time to give it a try.  Or if you were driven away from this title by the poor artwork of previous issues,  now is the time to give this book a second chance.