snap judgments no, really, there are some comics you really should read

I Have a Blog and I Must Scream

Okay.

I have a best friend. A guy I would literally take a bullet for. He's an awesome dude, love him to death.

I have a man in my life. He's the best thing sliced bread and I am happily and terribly in love.

Now, should the man in my life die right in front of me in a terrible and life changing event, I would be crushed. Should I go to my best friend's place and have him hand me a signature piece of Dead Boyfriend's clothing and tell me he was planning on stealing it, I would slug him.

And this is not even after I have chosen to ally myself with Ares and have been shown to be rather agro in other issues.

What am I yammering on about this time? Oh, Supergirl #9. Wherein Kara goes on a date with Captain Boomerang Jr. while wearing one of Kon-El's old shirts she filched from Ma and Pa's. She also shakes her ass, plays dirty pool, smokes for a few panels until she decides it's disgusting (and probably not making her look cool enough). Wonder Girl makes a couple guest appearances, one to cry over the lost Paradise Island and the other to... cry because either Supergirl gave her the shirt or because her life is difficult. I don't know.

Compare this Cassie to the one in Teen Titans or in Wonder Woman who really does act like she's thrown her lot in with the f'n GOD OF WAR. Why is she so miserable over here?

And why don't I like Supergirl? Why has Kara bothered me since her first appearance in Superman/Batman (and, on a tangent, why is it Superman/Batman? Why isn't it Batman/Superman? It's alphabetical.) Is it the waifish body type that only Michael 'Get these girls a sandwich' Turner can provide? It is her weird 'My Two Dads' involvement of both Batman and Superman (not to mention Wonder Woman) in her getting started? Shouldn't she be able to stand on her own as a hero? Or maybe that's it, the fact that's she's not a hero, really. She hasn't done anything that I've seen as particularly heroic besides a few slap fights with herself or Luthor or a splash page of her fending off someone from a car (again, minor nitpick as someone that small, no matter how strong they are, would have a serious weight issue stopping a big ol' car. I'm sure there's some really scientific explination involving mass and whatnot, but damn that girl is skinny!). Let me know if I'm wrong and I'll dedicate a lunch break to the issues where Supergirl goes out of her way to do something for someone else that doesn't involve her own drama.
A parent came a few months ago looking for comics for her young kids and noted Supergirl with a rather familiar delight. "Oh, Supergirl!," she exclaimed with joy and reached for the issue with the weird black and neon costumes that always remind me of that TLC video 'No Scrubs'. You know, where she gets a back tattoo and there's that heat vision boobie reveal, etc. Not exactly 'Mom' material in my book and I did warn her that this wasn't the Supergirl she might remember.

She was disappointed and so was I.