SUPERGIRL #29

Way Of The World, Part Two

July 2008

Written by Kelly Puckett

Pencils by Drew Johnson and Ron Randall

Inks by Ray Snyder and Ron Randall

Cover by Drew Johnson and Ray Snyder

Synopsis

Supergirl has decided she will find the way to cure cancer.  She enlists the help of Resurrection Man and Doctor Luzano, who she broke out of jail.  Worried about Superman, Supergirl builds their hideaway with lead covering.  Meanwhile, Doctor Luzano decides to not help the kid.  Instead he uses nantech technology to build armor and weapons for himself.  He kills Resurrection Man and attacks Kara, who manages to defeat him.  Meanwhile, Resurrection Man returns to life with the ability to heal.  Kara takes him to the boy she wants to cure, but Superman arrives to tell her the boy has died.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This was another frustrating issue from Puckett and company.  There are some interesting ideas sparkled within this issue, but it is surrounded by nonsense and useless material that it is difficult to find the good stuff.  The perfect example of this is the fight between Luzano and Supergirl goes on way too long, but somewhere in that battle I like Kara’s angry, frustrated diatribe against him about how he blew the chance to do something good.  The useless material is the flashback to one of Shelley’s previous lives; what purpose did that serve, other than to waste pages.  In fact, a lot of tis issue could’ve been condensed to make a stronger tighter story rather than the sprawling narrative that is presented here.  I like what Puckett is attempting, but he doesn’t seem to have a handle on how to present what he wants in a clear, concise manner. 

I keep telling myself that Kara should not be so stupid or naive when it comes to people and that she shouldn’t be so surprised when someone like Luzano decides to help himself rather than others.  But, reading this issue, Kara is not presented that way.  She is shown to be someone who sees the cup is half full rather than empty.  She understands that Luzano is not a nice person and that he will probably betray her.  She seems to be waiting for it.  She is presented as someone willing to take the chance that something good might happen.  It is not naivety, but optimism.  I actually like this characterization of Kara and hope Puckett continues this trend. 

Well, isn’t it fine and dandy that Shelley would come back to life with the exact power that Kara had been hoping for in the last issue.  You remember, she thought if she killed Shelley enough eventually they would stumble on that power, but she couldn’t bring herself to kill him, even knowing he would come back to life.  And now it has happened.  If she had only killed him to begin with, she wouldn’t need to break Luzano out of jail. 

I do have to admit, Kara’s question to Resurrection Man about his happiness at being immortal caught me by surprise and made me wonder, why wouldn’t you be happy if you could live forever.  Is living forever really such a bad thing to experience?

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