Article #36
Supergirl
Becomes Superwoman!
(Or… really I’ve
got nothing to add to this)
To my
one fan out there, sorry about the delay between updates. And yes, that’s the exact same intro I used
with the last update to the site. I’m
just that creative.
So, as
I understand it in the current Supergirl series there’s been an ongoing story
dealing with a new Superwoman, and the mystery of her secret identity. Just who is this new Superwoman? I have absolutely no idea. What I thought, however, is wouldn’t it be
fun to show a time in the original Supergirl’s life when she gained the title
of Superwoman? And hey, wouldn’t it be
wild (not to mention thoroughly confusing) if the new Superwoman was Supergirl
from an alternate future? Sort of like
old Spock is to the new Spock in the latest Star Trek movie.
In my
tattered copy of Action Comics #334 Supergirl has an opportunity to join the
Legion of Superheroes (hey, wasn’t the new Supergirl with the Legion for a
while too?). One of her tasks is to
solve a planet’s traffic problem, to which Supergirl solves it in her typically
efficient manner, only to be rejected!
And
there you have it, through some mystical twist of fate Supergirl is now
Superwoman! What a twist! What could be the cause of this
metamorphosis? Well, being a Superman
related story, I think you can figure it out…
And as
an aside, the girl wearing red standing next to Superwoman is Saturn Girl. Saturn Girl can read minds and is otherwise a
very normal looking blonde girl. She is
NOT a vampire or ghost, NOR can she turn invisible. Today’s riddle, dear reader, is WHERE IS SATURN GIRL’S REFLECTION IN THE
MIRROR?
Shocking! And how does the Woman of Steel take this
bizarre turn of events? What are her
priorities?
I’d be
pissed off at having just lost 10 years of my life in an instant, but not
having to go around naked is a pretty good concern too. Of course the real question is, how does
Superwoman solve this problem of hers?
No, scratch that, the real question is WHAT THE HECK IS SATURN GIRL LOOKING
AT? Seriously, it’s like one eye is
looking at Superwoman, the other is looking at the moon for all we know! What is she, part iguana?
She
solves her problem by doing absolutely nothing.
Let that be a life lesson to you all, oftentimes if things are going
like crap, just ignore the problems and they’ll just go away. That’s what I’m doing with my creditors and
it’s worked wonders (although it also helps to not have a telephone).
Things
I’ve learned reading this little story:
1) Supergirl’s costume is actually
comprised of a baggy pair of shorts and not a skirt. This explains the way it’s drawn throughout
the story and why when she grew up the hemline didn’t move WAY up (why am I
getting flashbacks to the old Sailor Moon cartoon?).
2) When Supergirl becomes
Superwoman she’ll be EXACTLY the same.
Okay, maybe she’ll be a little taller, but honestly put an image of
Supergirl next to Superwoman and I can’t tell a difference. Call me a male pig if you want, but it looks
like even her boobs stay the same size when she becomes Superwoman. It’s weird.
3) What the hell is that thing flying
past Superwoman in the second panel above?
I know it’s Earth, I read the story, but I can’t recall any animal on
our planet looking like that!
Well,
that’s it for the main entry. Scroll on
down as we continue with…
Image within the Image Moment Presents:
The Nonconventional Perils of Being a
Superhero Part 3
Yes,
image within the image is back with a new ongoing subseries detailing some of
the problems superheroes can have. This
first case in point points out a hereto unknown risk when having a double
identity. Taken from Limited Collector’s
Edition #43, it gives a glimpse of the problems many female superheroes have
when faced with capture by hedonistic Nazis, and so we enter the story (I
apologize for the cropping, it’s hard to scan the treasury sized books on a
conventional scanner)…
Oddly
enough things get weirder as the story progresses. M’kay…
I used
to wonder why Wonder Woman was so popular in the 1940s, now I know. Why is it I doubt Superman would ever end up
in these kinds of situations? Until next
time.