Written by: Tony Berdard
Art by: Karl Moline
Publisher: DC
Doomed has definitely been the sort of event that has produced issues that are either great and promising or boring and lack any form of story progression. Unfortunately, Supergirl #34 is the latter.
If I was being even more unforgiving, I would say that there is in fact no need for this issue at all and I can’t see why the end of the previous issue, in this event, even attempted to toward our attention to this issue before the final chapter of Doomed next week.
When I opened this issue I felt it strange there was no front page spread of The Daily Planet recapping the event so far and where we stand, then I started reading the issue and realised why. This is because the whole issue is basically a guy recapping the events of the past few months to Kara.
I don’t actually read Supergirl, I just read this issue because it tied in to Doomed, but if the whole point of this issue was to generate a new love interest for Kara or to make feel more human than great, I think that worked, but I think it only worked to a degree because some of the dialogue was so robotic it was quite a struggle to believe. That being said if these were the reasons for the issues, why did this have to be done in a Doomed tie-in and furthermore I don’t think it was appropriate for Superman/Wonder Woman #11 to lead in to this book and state that the story would continue in this issue, when clearly it didn’t.
Nevertheless, this is not the fault of the creative team (I assume) and they did a solid job of what was asked of them and I don’t have any gripes with the way the issue looked. The big scary Brainiac thing in the sky looked just as scary in this issue as it did drawn by the other art teams in the other books in these tie-ins.
Therefore, as I said earlier this is one great example of a bad tie-in as it has no story progression and really adds nothing to the event as a whole. However, for fans of this series it does open up hopefully some potential storylines and a new love interest that could perhaps after 3 years finally show a human side to Kara.
i couldn’t agree more!
this was a waste of $2.99 as well as the time reading this poor excuse of a tie-in!
if DC keeps sucking people into buying these lame cash grab cross overs that don’t have anything to do with the actual event, i just may drop superman and action comics from my pull list.
green lantern is another offender of the shameless cash grab lackluster cross over syndrome!
i was faithfully buying supergirl since issue #1, but dropped a few months ago.
hate to say it but maybe they should kill off kara again?
Michael, it was a complete waste of money! And I concur with you on Green Lantern. I was a fan since Johns run and even Vendetti lights out was pretty good as a first crossover, but every since then and the continued crossovers I have stopped reading as the core value of the book, and in reality Hal Jordan, is being completely lost.
It is very frustrating that these characters are being commercialised in order to sell books through crossovers, though this is bound to happen also because they have the same editors i.e. super-family, lantern-family, but still the quality should not suffer.
What was most frustrating with this Supergirl issue was that it was a completely different creative team that had been working on the crossover and that just makes no sense.
Thanks for reading the review by the way and always great to hear feedback.
you’re very welcome and thank you, this discussion gave me much to think about.
i finally decided it was high time i dropped both Green Lantern and Sinestro from my pull list,
seeing that a new HUGE multi-part tie-in cross-over cash-grab event will be starting soon!
i was buying the other 3 lantern titles since #1 but dropped them after realizing i just didn’t care about the characters.
i stuck with the flagship green lantern title because i love Hal Jordan’s character, but the series really has done him NO Justice!
seriously, the writing of green lantern has been awful since Geoff Johns left!
and i’ve given this title more than enough chances, but enough is enough!
i even decided to drop Flash as well as Aquaman since the stories seem to be going nowhere, and i can’t even vaguely remember anything about them?
so far Grayson has been a very enjoyable title, if you haven’t read it.
the Grayon Future’s End one shot was fantastic!
definitely a comic that needs multiple reads as well as reading it backwards to get all the plot points and details!
best comic in a while!