Supergirl #10 // Review
Lesla and Lena I haven't been seeing very much of Kara lately. Things got kind of weird with the New Year's party that they were at. And recently she's hooked up with this guy she met at the party. So it really isn't much chance to really make a convincing apology. What with it being the case that she's with this guy. And maybe that would be fine. Were it not for the fact that things can't ever be normal for a person like Kara as everyone everyone's about to find out in Supergirl #10. Writer/artist Sophie Campbell continues a series that fuses various elements of Supergirl’s past adventures into something that feels distinctly new and distinctly enjoyable.
He seems like a nice guy. There's no questioning that he's attractive. But there is some questioning as to exactly what it is that Kara is responding to. He's got some interesting qualities as a person. And he certainly seems to like hanging out with her. However, there's something more going on. It's an earring he's got. And when Lena takes a closer look at it, she's absolutely certain that the earring in question is made out of pink kryptonite. Of course, it couldn't be something as simple as pink kryptonite alone. It has to be something much more complicated. This is Kara, after all.
Campbell's script draws on a lot of different elements and themes that have been explored in supergirl comics for decades. The romantic end of her life has been something that's been fluctuating if she's been around. And so it's really hard to do something with that in a way that feels fresh and new and original. However, Campbell does manage something really interesting. And a convoluted connection between her and everything that's going on in this issue really works. Campbell has done a really good job of synthesizing in an way that makes it feel new even for people wh extremely and nauseatingly familiar with her past and her past romances on and off the comics page.
Campbell's art finds a nice balance between action, drama, and comedy. Ate all hits the page in a way that feels perfectly well balanced. The style that she's working with feels like is perfectly well grounded in sort of a middle America feel but one that is informed on by contemporary style and fashions. Campbell's workMidvale feel like a very classy sort of a college town. And though there is some exaggeration in the emotion that plays out in this issue, it's perfectly at home and a story that features green kryptonite and so on. It's also interesting that she's paying attention to things like the weather. This is February. There's still a little bit of snow on the ground and the trees are without their leaves. But it's a pet. It's an attention to detail like that. That really makes it feel like time is passing for this character as she navigates her way through life. It's a really nice and really pleasantly sociable approach to progressing the story.
Campbell has done a really good job of working with the year. From Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year's and now to Valentine's Day. And it all fits on the page without being really annoyingly obvious. It's a lot of fun seeing her work through everything in a way that's as appealing as it is here. More so then most other attempts at Supergirl in the recent past, Campbell's approach is very much in the vain of her just being a casual friend that you get to hang out with once a month for about a half hour. Fun stuff.
