More metacomics...

I really am coming to enjoy the comics that aren't afraid to admit that they're comics, the writers who take the entire idea of comics and their constantly-shifting continuity and make something out of them. Probably the finest of this genre is Supreme: Story of the Year which is one of Alan Moore's many masterworks. This TPB isn't on that level, but it's an excellent attempt to head in that same sort of direction.

The author has a three-page essay to open the TPB where he explains his hopes that the reintroduction of the Silver-Age Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) would allow him to play the modern heroine (with her scientific knowledge and origin that makes sense in a modern way) against the Silver-Age heroine (with her origin that makes no sense at all and that people just didn't question), showing the innocent and wide-eyed versus the modern. He also hoped that this would reinvigorate the series and lead into a series he called Blonde Justice with the three heroines (these two Supergirls and Power Girl) in a sort of Birds of Prey for the Superman side of things.

The number of old touches that he's thrown into this story arc are incredible, and it probably would take a reader of the full series to get every reference that he subtly makes, but it's an entertaining ride even if you don't get every one.

One of the better runs in the past few years...