Scott Sonneborn

This was a cute middle-grade book that was actually pretty complex as well.

The plot really is exactly what the title says it will be. Right at the beginning Brainiac arrives and thinks that taking over the world will be easy because Superman is off world. Instead, Supergirl appears and they fight for most of the book.

The interesting part came when Brainiac went into Supergirl's brain and suddenly the book was talking about Neurons and Neural connections (called it electricity, but, nothing's show more perfect). It was awesome and really nerdy for a middle-grade Supergirl book. Very cool. show less

So much stuff is going on in Central City all at the same time that even the Flash is feeling rushed, oh, and he has to diffuse an undefusable bomb as Barry too. Could one person be behind all of the emergencies?

Guess it’s a good thing that Flash can think fast as well as run fast. And his fast thinking is put to the test when he goes up against a bad guy who seems to be even more ahead of him.

This was cool. A sort of ‘you don’t have to go fast to be good’, or ‘slow and steady can show more win the race’. show less

This book managed 3 stars by the strength of end notes alone. Talking points about the art of illustration and a glossary of specific terms made up for the mostly lackluster story.

Apparently Captain Cold isn't the only cold villain in Central City anymore, there's also a guy made of ice, Icicle, who's stealing from banks and trying to steal Captain Cold's thunder.

But, Cold isn't going to let that happen. So Captain Cold decides that he's going to live up to his name in every way possible. He makes a Rhinovirus aka a Cold for everyone to get. But then Icicle starts getting credit for that too and that fact makes Captain Cold even more unhappy.

It was interesting to see show more the term Rhinovirus used in the book. And I've found that in these serieses that seems to happen a lot. On the one hand, they're for middle graders, but then sometimes they slip in older sort of topics. show less