Supergirl Vol. 2: Candor [Paperback]

Greg Rucka (Author), Mark Verheiden (Author), Joe Kelly (Author), Ian Churchill (Photographer)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (March 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401212263
• ISBN-13: 978-1401212261
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.3 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #525,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Joe Kelly is one of comics' hottest writers, with highly acclaimed runs on Daredevil, Deadpool, X-Men and Superman to his credit.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Had Hoped For, April 30, 2007

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The Atari (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supergirl Vol. 2: Candor (Paperback)

Unlike a lot of people, I really liked the Supergirl: Power trade paperback. It was a fun, flashy story with somewhat of a twist and great artwork to boot. This book failed to follow up on any of these precedents whatsoever. DC added in a few excerpts from Superman, JLA, and some other comics which were apparently supposed to fill the reader in on some of the goings-on around Supergirl. What we get is an absolutely incohent book that will leave you going "huh?" with artwork that ranges from great to utterly bland. I cannot recommend this book unless you're a diehard Supergirl / Power Girl completist, and even then I'm sure you're gonna be quite disappointed.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What the Heck?, June 23, 2007

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AH-1Z - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supergirl Vol. 2: Candor (Paperback)

It only gets two stars because of the artwork

As everyone else says, these story makes absolutely no sense. It exhibits the same problems that are occurring more often in the series: "Let's just have stuff happen and ignore whether it fits into anything". It's like they were making it up as they went along hoping no one would notice they didn't know where they were going.

They made it clear that the black costume Supergirl was a physical manifestation, not an illusion. She could physically interact with other objects (including the "real" Supergirl) and they saw her and talked with her. Where did she come from? Who knows? What was she? Dunno. At the end, when she disappears when confronted by "Truth"--Why? Where did she go? Apparently we aren't supposed to be concerned with these howlers.

BTW, DC, you've got to know better this, but you seem to keep ignoring it (or maybe your authors and editors really don't know it): You don't just run out of air when you find yourself in a vacuum, your internal organs rupture fairly quickly because your internal pressure is still there but there's no corresponding external pressure. Even more basic: YOU CAN'T TALK IN A VACUUM!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A disjointed series of cross-over confusion, August 23, 2010

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Zack Davisson "japanreviewed" (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Supergirl Vol. 2: Candor (Paperback)

Right here we have a lot of what is wrong about modern American comics. Too many cross-over events, too many inter-company continuity adjusting...it seems almost impossible to simply pick up a tradepaper back and enjoy a good story.

I have always loved the character Supergirl, and though I was out of the loop for American comics for the past few years, I have been slowly picking up some of the older series. I really enjoyed the re-introduction of Kara Zor-El in Superman/Batman, Vol. 2: Supergirl, and her storyline in Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes. I wanted to give her solo series a shot, and so I picked up Supergirl Vol. 1: Power which was pretty good, although the clichéd "bad girl" version made an appearance...right there is a sure sign of an author who doesn't know what to do with a character...ooooo...make them evil!

I was looking forward to seeing the series develop, though, so I picked up this next volume, "Supergirl: Candor" and I got...a mess.

To start off with, this is an incredibly disjoined volume collecting stories "featuring" Supergirl but not a continuation of the "Supergirl" monthly comic. Collected here are "Superman/Batman #27," "Superman #223," "JLA #122-123," "JSA:Classified #2" and finally "Supergirl #6-9." Just as many of the stories focus on Power Girl as opposed to Supergirl and the Maid of Might is often just the sidekick.

If you aren't familiar with ongoing DCU continuity, you are going to get lost and fast. Supergirl goes from being attacked by OMACs (pre-Infinite Crisis) and agreeing to go into space with a resurrected Donna Troy to joining Superman in his Fortress of Solitude (in the Amazon jungle? Huh?) where she fights someone called Blackstar who is the part of some future battle we don't see the continuation of. Then there is one random story set on Earth-2 where Superman and Batman change bodies with Power Girl and the Huntress; Supergirl doesn't pop up in that story even in a cameo.

As to the three issues that are actually from the ongoing monthly...they make no sense either. By now we are at the "One Year Later" storyline, and for inexplicable reasons Power Girl and Supergirl are inside the Bottle City of Kandor fighting against Earth-3's Ultraman who is alive and kicking for some reason...

Some of the individual stories in "Supergirl: Candor" were OK (mainly the Power Girl stories, to be honest), but without context too many of them are just confusing and frustrating. I don't know why they packed so many different comics together here instead of just continuing the ongoing "Supergirl" series which is the expected route for trade paperback collections.

It looks like with the next collection, Supergirl Vol. 3: Identity the series gets back on track, but this collection could easily be missed.