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alixtii ([personal profile] alixtii) wrote2007-06-24 09:32 pm
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And Where Exactly Have You Been, Miss Zor-El?

Is it just that I have more Marvel comic books, and am generally more familiar with that universe, or is DC's recent continuity even more confusing than Marvel's (which is pretty bad itself)?

I really want to read Supergirl/Oracle fic, and decided the only way I was going to get some was to write it myself, but I really can't get Kara's timeline straight. Stuff happens. then she goes to the future, then she comes back, and more stuff happens? I mean, I have five Supergirl trades at this point (the Batman/Superman where she is introduced, two Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes, and two volumes of her own title) and spent a good hour on Wikipedia and Google this afternoon, and I still can't for the life of me figure out what she's been doing in between, not to mention trying to synchronize it with Babs' timeline.

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[identity profile] bastardsnow.livejournal.com 2007-06-25 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
How is the 2nd Supergirl trade? I've got the first one, and enjoyed it well enough, but I kind of had the feeling that, well... it wasn't going to be a strong franchise.

Though that Batman/Superman is, IMO, quite good.

And I'd be interested in reading Supergirl/Oracle.

[identity profile] booster17.livejournal.com 2007-06-25 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
She turns up in Superman/Batman, and then gets her own title for a while which is basically her first trade. After that, Infinite Crisis hits and she sees Superman before heading off into space with a group of heroes (think that's reprinted either in a Superman trade or that second Supergirl trade). At the end of Infinite Crisis, there's this great big rift in space/time out in space, causing various effects - two heroes get merged together, Hawkgirl ends up 50 feet tall and Supergirl vanishes into the time stream and turns up 1000 years later with the Legion.

She spends however long with the Legion but eventually is sent back to our time, appearing during the World War Three seqments of 52 (the weekly comic telling the story of what happened during the missing year before One Year Later). After that, she and Power Girl go off into Kandor and your trade resumes. So basically, she was missing for 50 weeks before she came back.

You think this is bad to work out - I'm basically keeping a running checklist of what goes where for Countdown - which is weekly!
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