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SUPERGIRL #46

The Hunt For Reactron, Conclusion

December 2009

Written by Sterling Gates and Greg Rucka

Pencils by Jamal Igle

Inks by Jon Sibal

Cover by Joshua Middleton

Synopsis

[continued from Action Comics #882]  In the Metropolis Sewage System, Reactron has captured Nightwing, Flamebird, and Supergirl.  The three are chained in red sunlight.  However, Nightwing realizes that red sunlight doesn’t affect him.  He manages to free all three of them.  They attack Reactron.  Meanwhile, Lois Lane and Lana Lang are trying to find the kids.  Lois spots Lana’s nosebleeds and tells her to stay behind.  She eventually finds Reactron and the others in the midst of the fight.  Suddenly, Flamebird turns into the real Flamebird and flies away with Reactron.  She disintegrates the Kryptonite in his chest and gets Reactron to tell the truth.  Flamebird then is about to kill him, but Nightwing tells her they want justice, not vengeance.  Later, Supergirl apologizes to Flamebird for not believing her.  Flamebird then tells Supergirl something important about Lana.  Supergirl then returns to New Krypton to deliver Reactron for justice.  When she returns, she needs to talk to Lana about what Flamebird told her.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

There is not much here that is surprising; all of the plot points that we see here were expected.  Nightwing escapes because Kryptonite doesn’t affect him like everyone else?  Check.  Thara is revealed to be the embodiment of Flamebird, proving she wasn’t crazy?  Check.  Reactron is captured and spills the beans to Lois on the truth so she can then print it in the newspaper?  Check.  Thara and Kara make up at the end? Check.  Despite the fact that this issue kind wrote itself, it wasn’t all that bad and Igle’s action sequences are pretty fun.  I just think that Gates (and Rucka) wrote a predictable story, putting the characters into situations in which the resolution was revealed long before they got into the situation (if that makes any sense). 

What is the deal with Lana?  At the end, Thara tells Kara she needs to tell her about Lana.  But we don’t know what Thara tells her; we can only speculate.  When Lana next appears, it seems to me that both girls give Lana the cold shoulder.  The look on Supergirl’s face in the last panel on page 21 suggests mistrust and perhaps a little anger.  So it must be something not good.  But what?  Why can’t we know what Thara told Supergirl?   I don’t like it when characters, especially the leads, have information that we don’t.  I realize that we’ll get that information later, but it bugs me when characters reveal stuff to each other, but we don’t see it. 

I like the fact that the story between Thara and Kara has largely been resolved, allowing the writers to take their characters back to their respective titles and focus on their individual stories rather than their relationship.  It will be nice to get away from a crossover. 

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