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lizbeePosted in full at: http://ift.tt/29XLUyb at July 22, 2016 at 01:20PM
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ComiXology has released The Daring Adventures of Supergirl, the 1982 to 1984 series that helped define my childhood.
In her run in Superman Family, Linda “Supergirl” Danvers was a successful actress on a daytime soap (really) – but she was increasingly unhappy with her life, feeling that Supergirl had taken over Linda’s identity. At the end of that series, she impulsively moves to Chicago, which is where we pick up.
She’s dressed to the (80s) nines, quoting feminist advertising slogans, reinventing herself as a mature-age psychology student.
(Oddly, not a single person recognises her as a recently-successful soap actress.)
She quickly befriends a bunch of similarly-aged college students, including the delightful Joan…
…and the fairly gross John, whom Linda finds initially attractive and quickly off-putting.
In between some fairly mundane battles with supervillains, Linda has time for normal things: a creepy boss/advisor, a highly inappropriate date with a visiting lecturer, a new cat…
And, you know, regular problems that lots of girls can relate to.
And also teasing her cousin:
This is not a perfect run – but what is? I had to take a breather when I got to the arc involving a space Nazi, although I appreciated that the take on the character was nuanced enough that she is allowed to mess up telling black and Jewish people they’re overreacting to swastika graffiti.
I think this might be the run I remember from childhood where Linda and her BFF are trying to settle in for a pizza and movie night, but supervillains keep messing up their plans? But I’m not sure.
Anyway, despite the old continuity and dated slang, this feels like a good thematic fit with the Supergirl TV series, with Linda actively trying to forge an independent identity out of costume. And it’s not often you see a thirty-one year old go back to college.
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liz-squids:
ComiXology has released The Daring Adventures of Supergirl, the 1982 to 1984 series that helped define my childhood.
In her run in Superman Family, Linda “Supergirl” Danvers was a successful actress on a daytime soap (really) – but she was increasingly unhappy with her life, feeling that Supergirl had taken over Linda’s identity. At the end of that series, she impulsively moves to Chicago, which is where we pick up.
She’s dressed to the (80s) nines, quoting feminist advertising slogans, reinventing herself as a mature-age psychology student.
(Oddly, not a single person recognises her as a recently-successful soap actress.)
She quickly befriends a bunch of similarly-aged college students, including the delightful Joan…
…and the fairly gross John, whom Linda finds initially attractive and quickly off-putting.
In between some fairly mundane battles with supervillains, Linda has time for normal things: a creepy boss/advisor, a highly inappropriate date with a visiting lecturer, a new cat…
And, you know, regular problems that lots of girls can relate to.
And also teasing her cousin:
This is not a perfect run – but what is? I had to take a breather when I got to the arc involving a space Nazi, although I appreciated that the take on the character was nuanced enough that she is allowed to mess up telling black and Jewish people they’re overreacting to swastika graffiti.
I think this might be the run I remember from childhood where Linda and her BFF are trying to settle in for a pizza and movie night, but supervillains keep messing up their plans? But I’m not sure.
Anyway, despite the old continuity and dated slang, this feels like a good thematic fit with the Supergirl TV series, with Linda actively trying to forge an independent identity out of costume. And it’s not often you see a thirty-one year old go back to college.
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Date: 2016-07-22 06:45 am (UTC)Maybe this was a criticism of his real world behaviour, but if so I'm astonished that DC printed it.