I really wanted to like this. I love Tamaki’s Hulk book and Joelle Jones’ art is always a gift. However, I just couldn’t connect to anyone in this book. The tone just didn’t work for me. I couldn’t get attached to Kara’s plight or her grief. The dialogue for the teenagers reminded me of what happens when adults try to write young adult lingo. It’s always just strange to me and never makes much sense. Dolly’s lines like “assprick” and “buttturd” (or something like that) were just odd and took me

Finally a Supergirl book I can FULLY recommend. Why is that so hard to find? Supergirl is a lot about Kara trying to find her place. Nothing new there. The book even opens up with "Where do I start? Oh yeah, same old story." and it knows it can't reinvent the wheel so instead it polishes it and makes a fun as heck read for one of our favorite female badasses! Kara going through learning who she is. Not in the sense of being a alien, which she gathers already. She's trying to find her place among...

I’ve been looking forward to reading this Supergirl reboot for a while now. Mariko Tamaki’s work is always worth reading, or at least that's been my experience. That said, this book is decidedly low key.Kara Danvers lives quietly in the small town of Midvale. She has powers, super strength, flight, etc. but keeps them under wraps. She really doesn't remember her past much before her arrival on earth. She's essentially got Superman’s origin now. It remains to be seen whether the whole bit with Ar...

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a Supergirl reboot or an Elseworlds tale, but Tamaki jettisons all the nonsense of the most recent Supergirl Rebirth run by Steve Orlando and gives her Superman's basic origin. (She crash lands here at her parents' farm at age 8 and remembers nothing of Krypton.) It works much better than her previous 1,000 times at being retconned. This is very much a coming of age story. Kara's 16, hiding her powers and hanging out with her friends. When she loses someon...

Mariko Tamaki, author of the much celebrated This One Summer, works with artist Joelle Jones (Lady Killer) to fill out the origin story for Supergirl, something along the lines of American Alien by Max Landis, the aw shucks story of Clark Kent in Kansas. The point of this volume is to show that Kara Danvers, aka Supergirl, is first and foremost a teen girl, living in a Midwestern community, with friends and family and every day challenges. Kara Danvers arrives, as we know, from Krypton, and from...

The original Supergirl was invented in the early 60s. It was still the time of silly, light stories, and her stories, set in an orphanage were light humor, and odd adventures, such as her dressing up like a fairy godmother to entertain kids, or her boring a hole through the earth so people could look through it and see the leaning tower of Pisa.I grew up on this Supergirl, and though that it was odd that she would have to be reinvented. But in looking at the old stories, though I loved them as a...

I didn't have high expectations going in, but this was excellent! I want to know what happens next RIGHT NOW.

Petition for Mariko Tamaki to write all the comics and Joelle Jones to draw all the comics. Fantastic through and through.

Supergirl Earth One. World: Fantastic art that's expressive and full of character. This is a character story and the art really helped bring the emotions to the reader. The world building is also fantastic. Being non canon the creative team had a lot more leeway to play with this world and it's similar and different enough to be it's own thing. Solid. Story: Fantastic 2/3 of the way and a weak final act. That being said this is a really well written story and the tone and character personal voic...

Pretty good! Heard this one was really good, so I ordered the trade as soon as I saw it on the previews and I'm glad I did! So the story is origin story of sorts for Kara, since DC feels the need to reset the origins of Superman related characters every few years. This one has Kara growing up in a small town similar to Smallville as strange things start happening around town and something is effecting Kara's powers. I enjoyed the story for the most part; coming of age stories always have a warm

Although the character has been around for six decades in comics and other media, the mainstream became very aware of who Kara Zor-El was in TV’s Supergirl, which first aired in 2015. The show took its time to find its footing, but has managed to give the superheroine her own identity that doesn’t have to associate with her more popular cousin, something that Mariko Tamaki and Joëlle Jones have taken to heart when creating Supergirl: Being Super, their four-issue miniseries from last year which

Being Super is a kind of Earth One-type origin story for Supergirl that’s basically garbage. I’m not that familiar with the character but I’m not sure her origin, as laid out by Mariko Tamaki, is supposed to be quite so derivative of Superman’s: her Kryptonian pod lands at a farm outside a small American town where the kindly childless couple raise her as their own, doing their best to hide her burgeoning superpowers. Sound familiar? There’s even a page where she lifts up a tractor! Tamaki is si...

Yet another Supergirl reboot disappoints. Super angsty narration attempts to remind us that Kara is just a teenager while the generic comic book plot with a secret underground headquarters/research lab reminds us that we really don't really need this sort of disposable story.

An introduction to Supergirl. Kara is a typical teen girl living a normal life with a couple of best friends and parents who love her. She also has a secret... she has superpowers. This comic has a good story, interesting characters, and great artwork. A fun and entertaining read, and a nice update to Supergirl. Supergirl: Being Super contains issues #1-4.Chapter 1: Where Do I Begin - An introduction to Kara and her family and friends. Chapter 2: Hold On! - Kara loses someone close to her, plus

I've never been a fan of Supergirl - I don't actually like any of the Kryptonians - and yet, I enjoyed this origin story of the usually-bubbly blonde hero.She's not so bubbly in this one. She's a questioning sixteener, trying to figure out who she is and why her body feels weird and why she's so tired all the time. She has two best friends, loses one because that's how these stories are supposed to go, apparently, and begins to remember everything she'd forgotten in the last eight years. Standar...

Why two stars? The art, mostly, from the characters, to the background, to the colours and covers. The art was the best thing by far. Also I really loved the final page, not the whole ending, just the very last page (view spoiler)[which, at the same time, kind of sucks because I wanted this story to be all about Supergirl and, as the reader, to enjoy her character, not Superman's. But, I was so bored and so disappointed that sadly the Superman cameo was the one thing that made me smile (hide sp...

I thought this was an alternate-universe Supergirl, but by the time I got to the end I decided it was perhaps a rebooted origin story (because it's very much an origin, with a few unresolved plots). But I'm still not sure. DC continuity is soooo horribly broken.Anywho, this is a nice story. It creates a good supporting cast for the young Kara and acts very much as a coming-of-age story, where the general teenage feelings of alienation are made all the more blatant by the fact that Kara is a lite...

I gotta confess before we begin, while I don’t think it lessens my comic book reading experience or anything (hell, it may arguably enhance it) I can never see a Kryptonian origin story the same way again.For those of you who don’t know that is the main character from Brightburn (great movie IMO), a horror parody of Man of Steel. Imagine Michael Myers with Superman’s powers and the kills are the kind of gore you’d expect in a Garth Ennis book so I gotta thank the makers of that because now readi...

Honestly this is one of the only Supergirl comics that have actually liked. I have to hand it to Mariko Tamaki for not letting me down. I have loved her writing for other graphic novels/ comics and she really showed her talent by making a boring character so multidimensional.

Fine work! Gorgeous, detailed, warm-hearted pencils (finally, a comics artist who can draw people of different weights and heights and colors and have it feel so lifelike and effortless and kind) and lovely color and excellent framing. A+++ Skilled character development, soothing pacing, TIME SPENT ON GRIEF AND GRIEVING. Interesting story with just enough punching and superheroing. Sure, a bit more time could have been spent on the baddie so she wasn’t reduced to the ‘but it’s doing bad stuff fo...