Puss Reboots: Blog: October 2024: Supergirl: Being Super

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Supergirl: Being Super: 10/20/24

Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki and Joëlle Jones (Illustrator) (2018) collects the four issue comic into a single story about Kara Danvers learning the truth of her powers and trying to come to grips with being a super powered teenager.

Besides scenes of extreme teenage awkwardness, there's also an unexpected earthquake and resulting sink hole that claims the life of one of Kara's friends. Kara is wracked with guilt over not being able to save her despite her best efforts. Of course in all of this there's a lingering big bad and a personal betrayal.

For a short run comic it's a good, tight story. There's not too much left dangling, save for Kara being curious about her origins and her desire to learn more. The book ends with her flying off to confront the other, better known super powered flying hero. The last panel is her saying to Superman, "We need to talk."

I would love to see what they talk about but that story as written by Mariko Tamaki doesn't exist.

Five stars