"We are each other's shelter from the storm."
SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN #6
One day I walked into a library and my eyes fell on a book called Kingdom Come. I picked it up and to my surprise it was a comic book...or rather as I later learned, a graphic novel. But I saw beautifully painted panels and heroes that I recognized from my childhood who seemed ...well, grown up. I borrowed that book and I was moved and fascinated by, not only the story of men and women who are great heroes, but by they way they showed their humanity. They suddenly were not two dimensional people who just fought bad guys. They were deeply complex. I love books and reading on the whole and I guess getting into the comic genre as an adult woman was a case of serendipity. It led me to finding DC comics and the heroes I grew up with on TV and saw in movies and newsprint. It led me to finding Clark Kent or as he is known by his other name, Kal-El, and Princess Diana. I fell in love with them and am obsessed with all things Amazonian and Kryptonian now. I love their relationship. I love what they stand for. I love the contrasts of the princess/farmer's son; reporter/ambassador; pragmatic warrior/idealistic protector and empathetic teacher/enforcer of justice. A girl born of the earth and a boy who fell from the sky. The first daughter of Themyscira and last son of Krypton. And it surprised me to find that there were many fans like me, who adore them too.
DC rebooted their universe in 2011 and my favorite pairing is now canon!!! Yay.
Disclaimer : Superman and Wonder Woman are the property of DC comics.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Supergirl #15
As with Superboy, I am only picking up Supergirl because of the H'el on Earth crossover. As we know, H'el had fooled Kara in beliving Kal had betrayed her. We start off this issue with a flash back. Kara recalling her life on Krypton.
This whole issue is about showing how lonely Kara is and how hard it must be for a teenager to lose the life she knew and her family and friends.
We know Kara is angry but she is also very vulnerable because she is grieving still. H'el is offering something she has not gotten from her cousin : sympathy and a chance to go home. He teleports her to the Fortress of Solitude. As we know from Superboy #15, Kal and Superboy had gotten kicked out of it.
Superman realizes they needs help to get back in. Meanwhile, H'el teleports Kara into the bottled city of Kandor and projects himself astrally. He projects an image of his former self before he changed.
He manages to get Kara feel a closeness and connection to him and what he is hoping to achieve. While H'el is manipulating Kara, we still don't know much of what happened to him and it feels as if he had suffered too. With her help he manges to get her to do take the Quantum Crystal that powers Kandor.
Now that they have it, the plan is to go back to Krypton and prevent its destruction.
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