I understand what this book is trying to accomplish, but . . . I'm just having a hard time buying into the whole thing. Superman has decided that he needs to spend some more time with Kara. Since she's come to Earth he's tried to give her the best training he can find, but he hasn't been hands on. He hasn't really given her any personal attention. Except . . he always seems to be around whenever she screws up. So, like I said, he's decided to give her a little more personal attention, and at the same time teach her to rely on resources other than her powers. Yes she's a powerful person, but . . you also need some common sense . . some street smarts. So he's decided to take her to some backwater planet that has a red sun, and, basically, they're going to rough it. Although Kara's quick to point out, "Your idea of roughing it is completely different than mine." During this little excursion they've come across a lot of various alien creatures. And some of them are trying to eat the 2 aliens that have come to their world.
But despite their bickering, Kal and Kara have weathered through it together. Although Clark seems to be drawing the short end of the stick on this trip. He's shoved off a cliff by one creature, knocked into the river by another, almost drowns and ends up breaking his arm, and then . . at the end of the 2nd book, when Kal and Kara are trying to return to their ship so they can go home . . they find that it's surrounded by these almost humanoid aliens. Kara tries to get their attention by throwing rocks at them. They retaliate by hitting Kal with a poison dart. Meanwhile, while all of this is going on, Maelstrom, whom Kal and Kara fought last issue in Metropolis, is a slave on Apokolips. She has delusions of grandeur and wants to take her place alongside Darksied. Her first attempt was to go to Earth and return to him with Superman's head. Although she was soundly beat down by Supergirl . . a recap of issue #1. So she's returned to Apokolips and is trying to garner her masters attentions through her feats in the arena. When he becomes bored with her meandering, he banishes her to the slave pits. She attempts to break out and is thrown in a pit of neuro-leeches for her effort. However, Darksied is intrigued by her attempts and does make her an offer, "Bring me the Kryptonian's body and I'll consider making you my personal slave. But fail, and you will be banished from Apokolips forever. I'll make arrangements with Granny Goodness to provide an escort to deal with Supergirl." By escort, he means the Female Furies, who . . should Granny give them the ok . . are ready to kill her at a moments notice. And Darkseid admits to Desaad, "Maelstrom will fail in her quest and that will cause her more pain and suffering than any torture device you could imagine." But my question is, why does he care? She's beneath his notice so why does he care what happens to her? Why didn't he just leave her in the leech pit? And for that matter, with all the options that Superman has at his disposal, why would he decide to take Kara on a camping trip? Especially to a place where he has no powers and couldn't keep an eye on the other people that he loves. Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray write this book. To me they take a few leaps in logic that aren't really justifiable. The only thing I can really see coming out of this story is a little more insight by Kara. As far as Maelstrom goes . . who cares? Apokolips exists no more anyways. If she did survive the death of the New Gods, she somewhere on Earth in human form. So what's the point? I did enjoy Phil Noto's art, although I have to say it didn't really look consistent. Some panels look great . . and some are a little choppy. But overall, I like his work. I only bought this series because I like both of these characters. However, I don't feel that this series really shows their strengths. And by that I don't mean their powers, I mean their strength of character. To me this just kind of seems like a watered down version of our heroes.
I understand what this book is trying to accomplish, but . . . I'm just having a hard time buying into the whole thing. Superman has decided that he needs to spend some more time with Kara. Since she's come to Earth he's tried to give her the best training he can find, but he hasn't been hands on. He hasn't really given her any personal attention. Except . . he always seems to be around whenever she screws up. So, like I said, he's decided to give her a little more personal attention, and at the same time teach her to rely on resources other than her powers. Yes she's a powerful person, but . . you also need some common sense . . some street smarts. So he's decided to take her to some backwater planet that has a red sun, and, basically, they're going to rough it. Although Kara's quick to point out, "Your idea of roughing it is completely different than mine." During this little excursion they've come across a lot of various alien creatures. And some of them are trying to eat the 2 aliens that have come to their world. 
But despite their bickering, Kal and Kara have weathered through it together. Although Clark seems to be drawing the short end of the stick on this trip. He's shoved off a cliff by one creature, knocked into the river by another, almost drowns and ends up breaking his arm, and then . . at the end of the 2nd book, when Kal and Kara are trying to return to their ship so they can go home . . they find that it's surrounded by these almost humanoid aliens. Kara tries to get their attention by throwing rocks at them. They retaliate by hitting Kal with a poison dart. Meanwhile, while all of this is going on, Maelstrom, whom Kal and Kara fought last issue in Metropolis, is a slave on Apokolips. She has delusions of grandeur and wants to take her place alongside Darksied. Her first attempt was to go to Earth and return to him with Superman's head. Although she was soundly beat down by Supergirl . . a recap of issue #1. So she's returned to Apokolips and is trying to garner her masters attentions through her feats in the arena. When he becomes bored with her meandering, he banishes her to the slave pits. She attempts to break out and is thrown in a pit of neuro-leeches for her effort. However, Darksied is intrigued by her attempts and does make her an offer, "Bring me the Kryptonian's body and I'll consider making you my personal slave. But fail, and you will be banished from Apokolips forever. I'll make arrangements with Granny Goodness to provide an escort to deal with Supergirl." By escort, he means the Female Furies, who . . should Granny give them the ok . . are ready to kill her at a moments notice. And Darkseid admits to Desaad, "Maelstrom will fail in her quest and that will cause her more pain and suffering than any torture device you could imagine." But my question is, why does he care? She's beneath his notice so why does he care what happens to her? Why didn't he just leave her in the leech pit? And for that matter, with all the options that Superman has at his disposal, why would he decide to take Kara on a camping trip? Especially to a place where he has no powers and couldn't keep an eye on the other people that he loves. Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray write this book. To me they take a few leaps in logic that aren't really justifiable. The only thing I can really see coming out of this story is a little more insight by Kara. As far as Maelstrom goes . . who cares? Apokolips exists no more anyways. If she did survive the death of the New Gods, she somewhere on Earth in human form. So what's the point? I did enjoy Phil Noto's art, although I have to say it didn't really look consistent. Some panels look great . . and some are a little choppy. But overall, I like his work. I only bought this series because I like both of these characters. However, I don't feel that this series really shows their strengths. And by that I don't mean their powers, I mean their strength of character. To me this just kind of seems like a watered down version of our heroes. 
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