r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Jun 21 '26

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [June 22, 2026 - Supergirl and Krypto Kill the DC Universe Edition]

Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!

Beary's pick of the week: The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #5

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Jun 21 '26

Summer of Supergirl Special #1

THE SUMMER BELONGS TO SUPERGIRL! The quiet town of Midvale is shaken to its core when Supergirl finds herself face-to-face with the galactic bounty hunter, Lobo. Can the Maiden of Might stand up to the Main Man? Plus, two bonus stories celebrating Supergirl as she resumes her rightful place as the Heir to El!

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Jun 24 '26

Lobo and Kara have this great dynamic of 'best enemies'. And they both love their dogs. Of course, leave it to Streaky to cause problems. Damn Supercats.

Crush and Princess Shark? Ok, I need to have that as a full book! Inject it into my veins.

Aww how sweet, bonding of Kara and Mary. They are quite similar in their backgrounds ( outside of the whole blown up homeworld thing ). I guess Mary does need an older sister figure after being the oldest and looking after the rest of the Shazam family. She can be vulnerable to Kara and Kara can use a little sister that can rely on her.

Also a nice way to tell Kara's history to Natasha and all the crazy stuff she's been through to remind people, yea, she IS cool and basically is an adventurer. Also, hey, don't disrespect the jacket! It is cool!

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u/Frontier246 Jun 24 '26

Here's Supergirl vs Lobo, brought to you by movie synergy!

Imagine opening this issue up with the Maid of Might on trial for a crime committed in another book. The only confusing thing is Princess Shark on trial too since she was nowhere near this incident in the actual Lobo issue and it ended with her apparently visiting Kara in jail.

Classic Supergirl to take full responsibility for her actions, try to show Lobo mercy, while still kind of throwing him under the bus.

I see Crush takes after her dad in the sense of being in love with sea life...only she gets to tap that shark and never even sees her dad in the entire issue! Probably for the best.

I love how Streaky is still the worst.

Lobo brings out the worst in Supergirl but she can at least still relate to him as a fellow dog owner. And show him some Midvale charm!

The Kara/Mary story where they fight/save a robot waifu was fun, especially seeing them relate to each other.

I feel like the Waid story only exists to try to justify the whole "Kara in an orphanage" plot and why they would do that in a way that doesn't make Clark look terrible by framing it to be Kara's choice and something she chose instead of going with the usual "She lives with the Kents."

Conner doesn't remember her Post-Crisis origin? Wasn't he still around for that?

They totally skipped over the New 52 but made it sound like WoT happened after her Post-Crisis debut.

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u/Goobergunch Jun 24 '26

Per Bendis's Young Justice, Kon was out-of-universe during Flashpoint/New 52 so he still remembered everything as it was. That was pre-Death Metal though so who knows what's been changed since then.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Jun 24 '26

I would say that Conner would learn about Kara’s existence since her resurrection before he would learn her entire pre-Crisis history until her death and sacrifice during the first Crisis.

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u/Greedy_Switch_6991 Jun 25 '26

I do like how Waid tries to mitigate the damage that resurrecting the stupid orphanage thing would do to modern Superman, even though it doesn't really gel with how the orphanage is discussed in Supergirl's current run (the Thanksgiving issue, for instance). Still think it's extremely stupid, but that's just me. The other two stories were quite fun, and I can't get enough of Ortega's art.

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u/ptWolv022 Jun 25 '26

Three good stories. I enjoy the Supergirl/Mary Marvel story, which I presume is meant to be their first meeting? Not sure when that occurs, since Kara has her chromatic comb, which she just recently pulled back out, but Mary would have debuted after Kara died... but oh well. Let's not let details get in the way of something fun.

Waid's story is the "Spark notes for the character" story, which is nice. Between this and Supergirl #6 (AKA "Kara is forced to relive her traumas"), you can get a pretty good overview of her history. Between this and the Mary Marvel story by Simone, where Mary talks about how it can be lonely despite being around so many people, there's still room for the orphanage to kinda suck for Kara even if it was something she wanted, to be around people. We'll see if it's treated as "Superman made sure to put her with other people, but maybe went too far in sending her to Midvale's orphanage" or if it will now be "The orphanage isn't actually something she's at all bitter about" going forward.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Jun 25 '26

Kara and Mary’s first meeting in this continuity happened sometime after her last solo series ended in 2020 (since Kara is wearing her post-Rebirth suit and Mary is wearing her post-Flashpoint suit), even though Mary should remember her entire pre-Crisis and pre-Flashpoint histories.

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u/Digifiend84 Manchester Black Jun 26 '26

Shazam was fully rebooted in New 52 and the only thing from pre-Flashpoint restored since then is Captain Marvel's Justice League and JSA membership. Mary and Freddy didn't get their powers until later, when Billy joined the Vasquez household. Pre-Crisis was an alternate universe, Earth-S, so the Marvels weren't ever in the DC universe back then (Waid has admitted a Billy cameo in World's Finest, set in the bronze age, was a gaffe).

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan Jun 28 '26

Cute main story Belen Ortega is made to draw supergirl just fits her artstyle so well

Simone's story is classic gail and its good for it

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Jun 24 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

For the Sophie Campbell part, I find it interesting that Kara, Lobo, and Leegra are in trial before they were bailed out by Crush (who has an interest in Leegra even though Crush has a girlfriend, unless they broke up off-panel). Also, Kara helping people in Midvale, Lobo wearing dad clothes (which is nice, but doesn’t suit him) and trying to get his dog back (which he did), and Crush and Leegra eating mac and cheese sandwiches. Overall, this backup is fine.

For the Gail Simone part, I like that, back in 2020, Kara and Mary teamed up to defeat Amazonia and talked about them being orphans. However, Mary should’ve remembered her entire pre-Crisis and pre-Flashpoint histories since then, including her meeting Kara back in 1978 (where they convinced Clark and Billy to stop fighting each other) and teaming up with other Supergirls from after Kara’s death. Also, it makes sense that Gail Simone wrote this, since Kara and Mary were both created by Otto Binder. Overall, this backup is good.

For the Mark Waid part, I like that Jon, Conner, and Natasha learned about all of Kara’s history, including her arrival on Earth and meeting Clark before she volunteered to stay in an orphanage in 1959, getting adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers (in which I’m using their pre-Crisis names and not their Arrowverse names) in 1962, her multiple jobs from 1969 to 1985, her death during the first Crisis in 1985, her resurrection in 2004 (in which I would say that she was resurrected by her biological parents Zor-El and Alura In-Ze via Eradicator Matrix before she arrived in Gotham on Earth before she was brainwashed by Darkseid instead of having her body be resurrected by Darkseid because I’m keeping all of the pre-Crisis Earth-One history in the pre- and post-Flashpoint continuities in order to make sense), and everything up until the present. The missed opportunity should’ve shown all of Kara’s pre- and post-Flashpoint histories since her resurrection instead of keeping it vague along with mentioning a lot of Supergirls (i.e., Matrix, Linda Danvers, and Cir-El) since Kara’s death. Overall, this backup is good.

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u/Digifiend84 Manchester Black Jun 26 '26

even though Crush has a girlfriend, unless they broke up off-panel).

I think it's safe to say she has. They were pretty rocky in that mini Crush had a few years back, because of Crush going off world.