Supergirl (2025) Comic Review

A new Supergirl ongoing series has arrived via DC Comics, this time written and illustrated by Sophie Campbell, with Tamra Bonvillain as a colorist and Becca Carey as a letterer. It began to be published on May 14 2025. 

This story takes place in the summer of 2025, after the fall of the Kryptonite asteroid from Superman Unlimited #1.

Supergirl returns to her hometown, Midvale, to visit her parents but finds out that another Supergirl has taken her place, taking Kara's place as a saviour of the locals. The impostor turns out to be a girl she saved previously at Kandor, Lesla-Lar (a genius inventor), who envies Kara's life and powers, so she uses her technological skills to travel to Midvale after becoming obsessed with Supergirl. She then weaponizes her knowledge of the girl of tomorrow to supplant her faithfully, earth's sunlight also gives her powers as well. Kara must now prove to the people that she is the real Supergirl and fight the impostor.

A good mix of giggles, emotion and action, this new Supergirl ongoing series starts out quite great. We are very adequately introduced to the world and the continuity is established organically as we are never truly lost even if we have never read the comics it's picking up from. 

Now, Kara has to deal with issues such as defining herself as a person, revisiting her old home and trying to get away from Superman's shadow. Some of these conflicts are dealt with by becoming a sort of guide to other characters like Lena Luthor and the antagonist of the story. While a lot of this is done through dialogue and internal speech it's all very effective and we are also given very well written and inventive set pieces with monster fights (we even see Titano) and battles between the superwomen.

At one point, we also see the effects of black kryptonite on Kara, turning her into Satan Girl. She doesn't do anything truly violent or disturbing, it boils down to mild edgy phrases, throwing trash, pulling people's pants down, ruining birthdays and writing on walls with her laser-vision. It's all hilarious and fun, keeping things lighthearted and playful.

A very enjoyable beginning to a highly referential and entertaining series with heart and emotional resonance. A good start so far. 

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Negasonic Teenage Warhead (2024) Comic review

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has a very strange history as a character, being almost always underutilized. She first appeared in New X-Men #115 in 2001, but her popularity and modern personality wasn't truly established until the highly successful Deadpool movie from 2016 was released and introduced the character to a mainstream audience. 

This particular one-shot comic comes from the modern day interpretation of the character as a punk-like angsty teen with superpowers like psychic and precognitive abilities and it's a compilation from several issues of Marvel's Voices Infinity Comics, particularly from issues 44 to 49 featuring this specific storyline but with a new story added to it. 

We open with Negasonic helping Deadpool during average and banal missions, sequences that are among the best scenes of Deadpool since the movies but don't add much overall, only for her to receive a threatening vision of the end of the world, the only way to stop it is by kissing her future girlfriend. The problem is that she doesn't know who this woman is as she has yet to meet her.

Negasonic then reaches out to Emma Frost for help, who recruits a team of women with the most brilliant minds to help: Invisible Woman, Princess Shuri, Dr. Toni Ho, Scarlet Witch, Moondragon, Phyla-Vell, Jean Grey and Boom-Boom.

What follows is a race against time itself, and the Time Variance Authority, in order to stop the universe from ending by having Negasonic meet with the woman she is supposed to date in less than an hour. Not an easy task.

A very engaging story about how no matter what destiny has in store for us we are all able to forge and change our paths in life with a strong enough will and determination. It avoids any potential pessimism pitfalls when it comes to visions of future doom and offers us a very clever version of this type of premise by fleshing out Negasonic and creating a very personal and intimate story that gives us more sides of her, every obstacle and conflict that's introduced serves to push her limits as a character and that's where the inventiveness of this comic begins, delving deeper into a seemingly only secondary character that was used mostly for gags. 

At first it seems like a very typical outing with the mismatched yet highly amusing duo of Negasonic and Deadpool, only to go further with the premise and reach slightly more serious topics. In fact, Deadpool and the strictly comedic portions of the book are sidelined fairly early. It's never too heavy and it's swift and concise enough to hold your attention all the way. The fact that it unites a lot of Negasonic's issues regarding agency and independence with other Marvel women, like Scarlet Witch, is also very telling of its place in culture and the troubles the target audience faces. 

At the same time, it's very skillfully done in the visual sense by artists Carola Borelli (Spider Woman 2023), Eleonora Carlini (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hellmouth) and colorists Brittany Peer (Drawing Blood) and Ruth Redmond (Alien, Aliens, Marvel's Voices Infinity, Sensational She-Hulk 2023). Also well written by Andrew Wheeler (Another Castle, Love and War). While you can sometimes notice that the format was originally different and while the added story may feel irrelevant, the entire compilation is well worth your time if you are interested in the premise and the character. If you ever hoped to see more of Negasonic Teenage Warhead other than the brief appearances in the movies, this has you covered.

I found it very heartwarming and humorous, a quick and enjoyable read.

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Wonder Woman #7: Diana saves democracy and the female future - Review

In this issue, Diana visits her mother at Paradise Island. Her mother tells her about the future of humanity, one that she saw in the device known as the magic sphere. Her and Diana watch humanity's future. In 1000 years women will rule the world, and not only that, but Diana and Etta Candy (her friend) will discover a vitamin that rejuvenates people and will allow humans to live for thousands of years at least, all because Etta´s mother was on her last days.

During this female future there´s some backlash from male reactionaries, particularly from senator Heeman, leader of the man´s world party, a misogynist who irrupts into the political scene with intentions to dethrone women and put men back in power. 

Heeman is interesting because he insults women when they stop him from entering the president's office and considers all of the men who healthily interact with women (like Trevor) to be sissies of a decadent modern age. 

He wants to make the president sign a pardon for a criminal, Grafton Patronage, a member of the men's world party who opposed the current president. He's obviously told to go away but he claims they will overthrow the president if she says no. In order to protect democracy Diana and Trevor are called in to take a look into the situation. Meanwhile, at the prison of the future, Grafton revolts against the guard (there´s no handcuffs or shackles in this future because of the negative effects they have on prisoners).

Diana is also captured but she escapes with her powers and faces the criminals. Grafton concocts a plan involving an airline car crashing into president Arda´s vehicle and blowing her up, but Diana (now fully dressed as Wonder Woman) uses her strength to stop the car and get rid of the explosives.

Back at the prison, the men are holding the president as a hostage, with female paratroopers surrounding them. 

Etta and Wonder Woman modify the drinking water of the prison, dropping an antidote to the vitamin they discovered, which ends up reverting the criminals back to their natural age (a ghastly sight since they are thousands of years old). The effect is useless on Arda since she is only 35 years old.

The second story shows a very out of character Steve Trevor, he's being brainwashed into adopting 1950's style machismo. He was seduced by the new men´s party by Professor Manly and the purple shirts, who plan to rise up against women and arm themselves to create a revolution. A lot of allusions to fascism and conservatism in this issue.

A police officer tries to tell Diana who is behind the gun plot but she is killed right before, something that hasn't happened since men were in charge. Diana tries to accuse him but she isn't believed as Manly has a good position and reputation. An election is about to take place and Trevor runs against Diana. Our heroine speaks of equality, substantial policies and a good relation between men and women, while Trevor delivers vague populist speeches and his only real hook is his “beauty.”

When the votes come in, Diana is predictably the winner but Manly hatches a plan to interfere with the election and sends his purple shirts to destroy the votes for the women's party. Diana resigns her role as secretary because she will investigate Manly´s fraud, but Manly uses his power to get her jailed for accusing him. 

Wonder Woman escapes her binding and rescues Trevor from his frozen entrapment, only to become frozen herself. Etta comes in and manages to unfreeze Wonder Woman and they arrest Manly. Soon after, Diana becomes president of the United States. 

In the third story Paula visits Paradise Island and Wonder Woman shows her the future she witnessed with her mother in the previous stories. In this case, we are informed of a villainess named Andra Moteeva, a woman who incites men to rebel against the ruling women.

Wonder Woman and Trevor are captured by her troops. Andra is the kind of woman who prefers the company of men and wishes men to worship her alone as she despises other women and wants them to be treated like dogs. Wonder Woman escapes and warns the other girls of the danger. She also creates a ring that knocks out enemies in one go, which will come useful as the future women's civilization forbids killing.

Diana infiltrates the prisoners once more and makes the other girls surrender so they can enter the place easily. Right before they are about to be eaten by lions and tigers Wonder Woman orders her women to attack and they defeat the male army. Andra is captured and brought to justice.

In the fourth and final story we see a slightly older Gerta, Paula´s daughter, who went through amazon training and developed great strength. However, her bad behavior causes trouble as she won't listen to anyone but Wonder Woman. Diana and her mother then decide to take a look into the girl's future.

Turns out little Gerta will grow up to be a dangerous criminal and is stopped by Wonder Woman. Diana´s mother tells her that she must teach love and obedience to Gerta. A harvest festival is taking place and the Amazon children are having a diving contest, but Gerta becomes too competitive and dives in a dangerous area.

Wonder Woman attempts to save her but a giant octopus attacks her. Gerta wants to help Diana but she decides to listen to her mother and go back to the surface, making things easier for the heroine, who promptly gets rid of the creature.    

Diana tells Paula to teach her obedience to save her daughter from a dire future.

This issue contains a lot of typical themes by Marston, such as female supremacy and submissiveness as a way for people to become less selfish and more willing to serve others, which are apparently ideal for a bright future. Totally recommended.