{"id":329,"date":"2007-05-20T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=329"},"modified":"2007-05-20T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T10:01:33","slug":"superman-batman-supergirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/20\/superman-batman-supergirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Batman: Supergirl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Superman\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

By Jeph Loeb<\/strong>, Michael Turner<\/strong> & Peter Steigerwald<\/strong> (DC Comics)
\nISBN 1-84576-114-6<\/p>\n

DC really can’t seem to make up their minds over Supergirl. I’ve actually lost count of the number of different versions that have been foisted on us over the years, and I can’t escape the queasy feeling that above all else she’s a concept created to ease young male readers over that bumpy patch between voices breaking and hiding things under your mattress where your mum never, never ever looks.<\/p>\n

This latest version resets to the most popular concept and has a naked blonde chick arrive on a Kryptonite meteor claiming to be Superman’s cousin. The most intriguing aspect of this incarnation is Batman’s total distrust of the girl as she is hidden from the world while she assimilates. This leads to her training\/babysitting by Wonder Woman’s amazons and her eventual kidnapping by evil space-god Darkseid.<\/p>\n

All in all though, it’s woefully predictable stuff with oodles of lovingly rendered girl-flesh and fetish outfits jostling for attention amidst the lavish fight-scenes and interminable guest-cameos. Yet as much as I bitch about all this, I won’t disparage the popularity of the material, because any increase in sales of comics is a wonderful thing in this current climate, but I just know that the writer of The Long Halloween<\/strong> and A Superman for All Seasons<\/strong> is capable of producing better stuff for artists of this quality to draw.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 By Jeph Loeb, Michael Turner & Peter Steigerwald (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-114-6 DC really can’t seem to make up their minds over Supergirl. I’ve actually lost count of the number of different versions that have been foisted on us over the years, and I can’t escape the queasy feeling that above all else she’s … <\/p>\n

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