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Review: Supergirl #15
Supergirl #15 came out this week, ending the Reign of the Superboys story as well as the Lesla Lar/Black Flame Kandor story at the same time. There is a lot to like about this issue as writer/artist shows once again that she understands the character of Supergirl. She is hopeful. She has compassion. She doesn't kill. But if she needs to knock some sense into
Review: Batman/Superman World's Finest #51
Batman/Superman World's Finest #51 came out this week, another fun story that allows writer Mark Waid and artist Adrian Gutierrez to amble around more of the DCU and introduce readers to some fun characters. This time Waid has decided to bring our heroes to Skartaris to see Warlord and his supporting cast. That is a tiny corner of the DCU and, as far as I kn
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary Turned 18 !
Sometimes life comes at you fast! April 29th was my 18th anniversary of running this site. Between a much needed vacation in mid-April and then a move to a new home at the end of April, my celebration of this place was missed! I started this site to celebrate the character of Supergirl because at the time, I wasn't enamored of what was happening in the comic
Review: Superman #38
Superman #38 came out this week, the next chapter in the Superboy Prime arc in this book, and frankly another winner. As I have said almost every Prime issue I have reviewed, I am impressed at the creative team who somehow made a character I have loathed for a long time into one I am eager to read each month. This book, a redemption arc with more fourth wall
Review: Superman Father Of Tomorrow #1
Superman Father of Tomorrow #1 came out this week, an Elseworlds mini-series that has Jor-El make it to Earth rather than Kal. I have read many Superman Elseworlds around the arrival. Kal in Civil War times, Kal in Soviet Russia, Kal in King Arthur times, the whole family making it to Earth. But I think this is the first time that Jor being the only survivor
DC Comics August 2026 Solicits
The August solicit for DC Comics have been released and this is the month the Kingdom of Zod event hits the stands. That alone would be news, especially when it sounds like Supergirl will be playing a major role in the event. But there are some other interesting tidbits this month that got my attention. If you want to review the entire list, here is the link
Review: Supergirl Survive #1
The Summer of Supergirl started out with a bang this week with both Supergirl:The World and the Elseworlds Supergirl Survive #1 hitting the stands. With the movie around the corner, I am pretty thrilled to see DC pushing the character forward. Supergirl has only headlined a couple of the old prestige Elseworlds in the past - Wings and Elseworld's Finest - so
Review: Adventures Of Superman Book Of El #9
Adventures of Superman Book of El #9 came out this week and pushed this storyline forward, explaining a bit more about the aspects of Olgrun in this far flung future. The solicit said that Supergirl was finally going to enter the story but alas, the solicit was wrong. Kara is no where to be found. Phillip Kennedy Johnson is doing what he does best here, buil
Review: Supergirl: The World
The hits of The Summer of Supergirl keep coming with the release last week of Supergirl:The World, a hardcover collection of short Supergirl stories from creative teams from around the globe with stories often touching on the culture and history of the creator's home nation. It is an interesting and rather highbrow concept and one I would never have believed
Review: Supergirl #14 (v8)
Supergirl #14 came out this week, the next chapter in Supergirl's battle with the Black Flame in Kandor during the Reign of the Superboys mini-event. For folks like me who wanted more action in the earlier in this title, writer/artist Sophie Campbell is answering the bell giving us another heavy action issue with more brutal fighting between Supergirl and Bl
Review: Action Comics #1099
Superboy has taken over Action Comics but Superman is due to return in next month's Action Comics #1100 . This made me think that this week's Action Comics #1099 might be the ultimate or the penultimate chapter of this remarkable run. Interestingly enough, this felt like a normal issue of this Superboy run. Yes the current story of some JLAers in the past fi
Review: My Adventures With Superman S3E1
Season three of My Adventures With Superman started this week and truly hit the ground running. It is a brisk half-hour show with all the action, comic history and homages, and whimsy of the first two seasons. I don't know how the creators are walk the tightrope of anime slice-of-life young romance, deep existential dread of overcoming early trauma, scifi ac
Bullet Review: Fury Of Firestorm #3 - Supergirl Sighting
This will be a quick review of a Supergirl appearance in Fury of Firestorm #3 , one of the DC Next Level phase books. But it also is a plug for this book because it is a great title, especially if you are a fan of the character. As many know I am old and I was a big fan of the Fury of Firestorm book out out in the mid-80s by Conway and Broderick. I have foll
Review: Lobo #4
I have never been a fan of Lobo, a parody character that somehow took on a life of his own. The crude humor and bloody action just doesn't grip me. So when Lobo was announced as a 'next level' book, I knew it wouldn't land on my pull list. With Lobo a big part of the upcoming Supergirl movie, I figured a comic crossover between Supergirl and Lobo was bound t
Review: Superman Unlimited #14
"The Reign of the Superboys" continued in last week's Superman Unlimited #14 , a book with a big reveal that most of the folks who come to this site guessed right from the start! Good for you all! Writer Dan Slott brought back a young Superboy, a young Jon, and readers like me were perhaps hopeful that this was a way for DC to correct aging the character up.
Review: Batman/Superman World's Finest #52
Batman/Superman World's Finest #52 came out last week and sported a pretty nifty Dan Mora Supergirl movie variant cover. I will never complain about seeing Dan Mora Kara. Outside of that, this second chapter of the Skartaris adventure was otherwise just okay. It is hard to dislike a Mark Waid moment. There are always character moments and history mentions th
My Adventures With Superman S3E2
My Adventures of Superman S3E2 came out last week and continued to push the overall storyline of this season forward. It is clear that the showrunners are going to lean into two areas. The first will be the concept of identity, especially in Supergirl and for plot, the idea of the Reign of Supermen, probably looking at what it means to be Superman, or an evi
Review: Summer Of Supergirl Special #1
Last year the Superman movie hit the screens so a Summer of Superman Special hit the racks. This year ... indeed this very day ... a Supergirl movie will hit the screens. So DC did the right thing meaning a Summer of Supergirl Special #1 hit the stands this week. And what a special it is. We are talking big name creators are on the book. Mark Waid, Sophie Ca
Review: Supergirl Movie
I saw the movie on Saturday and I am going to do my best to wrap my head around my thoughts in a non-spoiler way (above the fold) and a little deeper once we get inside. I will say, based on the source material and some stuff that I had heard before hand, I went into the movie with low, almost no expectations. And perhaps going in that way, I found that I li
Review: Superman #39
Superman #39 came out last week and was an absolute treat as writer Joshua Williamson and artist Dan Mora continue to redeem Superboy Prime and break the fourth wall to smithereens. I have been saying how great this whole run has been all along but this issue, which really embraces comic history, might be the best of all. Last issue, Manchester Black finally