SUPERGIRL #15

Love The Ones We Hurt

May 2007

Written by Joe Kelly

Pencils by Ian Chruchill

Inks by Norm Rapmund

Cover by Ian Churchill

Synopsis

Even though she is spending time with Power Boy, Kara hears Captain Boomerang asking for her while recuperating in the hospital.  Kara leaves Power Boy to visit him.  As Kara approaches the hospital, Power Boy hits her, angry that she turned her back on him.  Then he gets angry that she made him lose his temper.  So he drags her by her hair out of the hospital and tosses her across the city, where she collapses unconscious.  Elsewhere, the woman who hired the League of Assassin to attack Kara decides to attack her spirit, with the aid of Felix Faust.  Meanwhile, Kara awakens at Power Boy’s place and sees his Wall ‘o Kara.  Powerboy tells Kara how much he loves her and how much he wants to take care of her and fix her.  Kara decides it is time they break up.  She will not tolerate any man who says he loves her, but then hits her.  She beats him up.  He tries to escape with the use of a Father Box, but Kara finds him and knees him the groin before.  She attempts to grab the Father Box, but it is broken.  She tries to toss it into the sun, but it explodes before it gets there. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Hopefully this issue will get rid of Power Boy, a character that I didn’t really like.  As an story about abusive boyfriends and husbands and what women really should do to them (I wholeheartedly agree with Kara when she knees him the groin; best panel in the entire series so far) this not all that bad.  However, as part o f the ongoing series, it suffers because it just does not fit that well into the events of the ongoing series.  

What happened at the end of the previous issue?  What about Cassandra Cain?  What about the spikes coming out of Kara’s body?  Are they both okay after that?  It almost feels as if we are missing an entire issue of material. 

Power Boy feels everyone’s emotions and it turns into some sort of purple lightning.  It is funny that we hadn’t seen this before.  It is kinda cool, but frankly Kara has been feeling good things about Power Boy before this, you’d think we would’ve seen the purple lightning.  You would also think he would be attune to how she feels about Boomer, although I’m not sure if that would work since I am not sure she knows how she feels.  But Power Boy should know how Boomer feels and perhaps that is the problem.

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