Comic Book Review: Supergirl: Candor

Feeling the stress of being a young, beautiful, talented woman trying to blossom into the world only to find that the pressure is too much and you feel pushed into a confusing identity crisis that leads to searching for oneself on the darker side of life? No? Well it sounds familiar at least. It is the tragic and clichéd tale that rears its ugly head when someone is desperately trying to reinvent a character.  And that is what we are getting with Supergirl: Candor.

Graphically parts of Candor are beautiful thanks to Ian Churchill and Ed Benes, Amada Conner’s pencilling of Power Trip #4 does not hold up in comparison, her Supergirl becomes less expressive and looks much older. The colouring of Power Trip #4 is also disappointing and a little childish, while Rod Reis clearly has a matured craft that give the divinely pencilled contours of muscles and hair maximum impact.

As far as the story is concerned it remains weak and un-toned, Powergirl drains pages of energy as she sulks and bounds around like a spoilt woman-child.

Overall the flat storyline and dialogue from Joe Kelly and Greg Rucka ruins any work the artists have done to lift the edition. Ultimately its difficult to care about what happens to a young woman in the peek of fitness who happens to have ultimate super powers and much less Powergirl and her dilemma of how to cover her cleavage