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Started well. Ended not so well. ( )

Another attempt to reboot the story of Kara Zor-El, this time for the 2011 “New 52” event, and for once it works surprisingly well (in parts). By sticking to the classic elements of her story the creative team present an interesting and believable take on how a teenage girl might react finding herself rocketed to a strange planet whose yellow sun creates traumatic changes to the way her body functions. The book also hits some emotional highlights in a trip back to the shattered remains of her home on Argo City. Unfortunately it’s let down by two main problems, weak one-dimensional villains, and the costume design. That costume is ridiculous. What makes it worse is that the supplemental material in this collection make it pretty obvious that series artist’s own more practical designs were ignored in favor of the micro bikini bottom design by one of the company bosses. ( )

3.5 ( )

I liked everything about it - good intro, good characters, good internal dialogue, enough mystery to make you wonder what's next, no pointless boob or buns crap, et cetera, et cetera. ( )