Supergirl #8

Supergirl #8
Pagewise:
p.1 Translations: OBEY, KNEEL
p.2 The banner says nothing intelligible.
p.5 ...aaand there's a goat ogling Power Girl's cleavage.
p.6-7 Which Saturn Girl is this? It seems like the one from Loeb's alternate reality from Superman/Batman. Or is it just a variant of that one? There have been so many!
Karen says "I really @*#$^ hate time travel stories." That perfectly expresses my sentiments as well. At least when time trabel stories are done as poorly as this.
p.8-9 Naked Superman is surrounded by beautiful female attendants, and then Kara enters...ICK!!! Kal El says to Kara "I wouldn't want you to break on our wedding night." ICKY!!!
p.10 And...suddenly KalEl is wearing clothes again? I know he has super speed, but what, now that his mother's come into the room he needs to be clothed? As if we can get any more ICKY?
p.11-12 Page 11 seems to begin to make everthing clear. It certainly seems to be heading towards that, but then page 12 goes careening off into the nonsensical once again. Quite an accomplishment for a two page spread...of which there are waaaay too many in this issue.
p.13 "The curse of El"? WTF???
p.14 Which Ultraman is this? Pre-Crisis or Grant Morrison Earth 2?
p.17 "You would have given me a headache every night." ICKY ICKY!!! I guess we could get ICKier.
p.20-21 I just don't get it. Does Saturn Girl want Kal El dead? Or alive as her son? Or can't she figure it out? Maybe she's nuts? Or maybe Kelly and Berganza don't have a fucking clue as to what it is they're trying to do.
Next issue promises a return to reality, so Joe Kelly can start fucking up the mainstream DC universe as well. Thanks a lot. Let's hope the editing at least gets tighter, because really, Berganza is doing a shit job on it here.
And maybe we find out where the hell this all fits in with OYL? Since Supergirl appeared in issue one of Busiek's run, but then disappeared later on, I'm assuming that's where it fits, but Kelly seems not to care about continuity much, even within his own story, even within a given issue(!), so who knows?
This is one of the shittiest books I've ever had the misfortune to read. It's even ICKier than the first Nightwing OYL which made me wish I could scrub my brain afterwards. ASS or CRAP. Take your pick. AWFUL doesn't even come close to saying how AWFUL this issue is. Please spare yourself, and skip it.
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