Letters to Action Comics #31

Brilliant! A great issue, one of Roy's bests, highlighting everything fantastic about his run so far. Supergirl was just wonderful, and even though I was expecting a cover from Craig (what was going on there?), that cover was beautiful.

I do have to say, I really like what Craig and Ramon did with Supergirl's costume (maybe we could see the full preliminary sketches Craig did?) and it's much better than the horrendous design by Turner (or Churchill?) over in the DCU.

Loved the interaction between Lois and Lombard, Martha and Kara, Kara and Kal, Martha and Klee-- Keelex (I smiled at that)... Everything was just spot on perfect. Congratulations! One more month, I think, and it's been a year! A year of fantastic, true to the concept, Superman stories!

Methinks the Congolmerate is in for a severe beatdown!!!!!

Thanks for reading and commenting everyone.

Sorry about the cover snafu Charlie and Ramon and Craig. I'm sure we'll use the redesign once Kara and Martha get through with it.
I was thinking something in gingham

Mouseman
This was actually in no way similiar to the way I had originally intended to introduce Supergirl, it just kinda happened that way.

Arcalian
The conglomerate is more than meets the eye! Nope not a transformer. Superman and Supergirl have sure poked a nest of hornets though.

I'm glad you walk away from this feeling good Dave, I try to always give Superman a hopefull and a postive outlook.

Thanks again for reading and commenting!

This was a solid one and done issue and was perfect after the recent three parter. I was honestly shocked by what happened to Kara's adopted world. Kind of a shame that it had to happen that way.

Makes me curious now about the whole Planetary Conglomerate and what will happen now that Superman and Supergirl are on their radar.

I throughly enjoyed seeing a throwback character like Steve Lombard give Lois a hard time. The more he’s around the better.

Plus another Fero connection huh? I can’t wait for the big crossover event!

Having Martha take Kara in was a sweet touch. And the Kleenex comment was cute as well.

Loved the cover as well as seeing Kara have a bigger role in the book. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

5 stars.

Roy blew my mind when he did the bait and switch with Kara's rocket. "What Ifs" are a big part of fan fiction, but it's rare you get something so intrinsically different be integrated into the legend as we did with Kara Zor-El landing on the jungle world first, before being introduced to Earth. In my head canon, which I'll eventually get out on paper, Kara is traumatised by what happened after the destruction of Krypton, so much so that even when she arrives back into a "civilised" society like the one on Earth, she still has trouble adapting.

By the time Superman leaves Earth, thus triggering the 10YL timeline, she's fully socialised so that you don't see any of the feral behaviour that she might have had to lean into on the jungle planet, but if we caught up with her in the current continuity, she might not be 100% the Kara you expect yet. Being marooned on a deserted planet full of weird and wonderful creatures could really do a number on you. She's like the Green Arrow of the Superfamily, though there's no archery involved, just the marooned aspect!


I loved Roy's run on Action Comics, there was such reverence to the character, but also a willingness to take risks that I was really happy he accepted my challenge of taking up writing duties. Before this, we worked together on a back-up that ran early on in my run called "Escape To Krypton", a murder mystery based in a new location we created in Metropolis called Krypton Square, that housed the super-powered oddities and weirdos that cropped up in the 90s Superman family of titles. I was really pleased with that-- if I remember rightly, I gave him a kernel of a plot and he ran with it. The title itself, a play on the old "Return to Krypton" stories that used to pop up every decade or so in the Superman books, was the starting point. Here's something cool, let's run with it!

I think that the site never really had a handle on how to use Lex Luthor broadly. We started off with him being a kind of Michael Rosenbaum Smallville Luthor by way of Superman: The Animated Series Luthor, because we relied so heavily on Smallville's mythos for our version of the Superman legend. He was a very nasty piece of work, but had that public front, then when our second year anniversary event came around, "Justice League Vs America", he was outed as a supervillain, and never really returned from that position. We got a lot of evil Lex running around in his powersuit causing problems, which I think is great, but because we didn't have that broad understanding of him, we were stuck with him being a supervillain and not able to do the kind of insidious stories he's most famous for in the public eye, like the great Cadmus-arc in Justice League Unlimited, or the 2000s President Lex. 

If you read Green Lantern Corps, by the time #57-59 rolls around you'll know that he's back in the good graces of Metropolis... but how? That's going to be revealed in the next few months, in a story that's going to surprise everyone when it comes around. So in the current continuity, Lex has his business back, he's had all his criminal charges dropped, and Metropolis doesn't give him a second though. That's going to be the plan for the long term, but we do know that by the time 10YL rolls around, he's in prison, so it's not like he gets away with it forever! 

I was really happy with the Lex-centric arc over in Green Lantern Corps, and I'm writing him again in this year's Action Comics Annual. That, and an appearance in an arc that launches with Justice League #75... we'll be seeing a lot of the "untouchable" version of Lex moving forward in this year's books. You should be worried!


I keep wanting to use Superwoman in Justice League, but the timeline doesn't intersect in the correct way! That said, I had intended to use Red Robin-- Tim Drake from the future-- in my last run on the title, but I stalled and took a break from the site for a while. That was going to be part of the defunct "The Omega Point" era of the site, that truncated time which had the Big Seven going in one direction, and a ragtag team running in the ongoing.

I've mentioned the concept of the Decade title before, which would feature stories from the decade leap toward Omega Crisis and after, but it could also feature stories from the current timeframe... or perhaps a miniseries of her own! I know I had plans for the intervening years that weren't covered in Superwoman, but what I want to do is feature her and Lena's budding relationship instead! So many threads... not enough time... or titles!