by Victorian Squid » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:17 pm
Supergirl #50
I dunno what I expected from Supergirl #50, but the main story here is clunky with a "magical machine" ending capping off a rather generic possession storyline involving various people whose initials are "LL", including some confusing bits about Superwoman and more magic.
Jamal Igle draws all this just fine but without doing anything to make the book memorable, and I found the colors rather ugly. And why is Superwoman's heat vision so pink? At least it wasn't as dark or drab as a lot of the book.
Cliff Chiang and Dave McCaig's artwork for the back-up story underscores how unexciting the main story looked by making a rather bland re-telling of Supergirl's history by actress Helen Slater and Jake Black (it took two people to write those 6 pages, really?) stand out.
(Loved the First Wave preview!)
A disappointed 5