Comics that deserve more press - Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 11:56PM 
Not exactly Rob Liefeld Supergirl, is she? Thank God.Once upon a time DC Comics realized that little girls liked Supergirl stuff, but they didn't have a single Supergirl comic or graphic novel safe and suitable for little girls. So they created one. Precisely one. And then they stopped.
(Never mind that Billy Batson and the Power of Shazam survived two mediocre years for no particularly good reason.)
This is that graphic novel.
Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin from an alternate dimension, randomly gets stuck on Earth, Clark pops some glasses on her and sends her to school (his answer to everything) and cue middle school adventures. The comic is obviously aimed at girls just young enough that middle school adventures sounds awesome - that is, kids who are too young to have to endure the hell that is middle school.
More cartoony and humor-oriented than the average comic aimed at young girls, the book is blessedly free of age-inappropriate sexualization, a long-running problem for Supergirl. (Even her horse wants her.) She's very firmly thirteen or fourteen and not in that played-by-a-twentysomething-I'm-looking-at-you-Tom-Welling way.
And speaking of Smallville, Kara Zor-El gets her very own Luthor to have a cute-but-twisted friendship with in Cosmic Adventures. Lena Luthor, I mean Thorul, (but really Luthor) is Lex's little sister, and she's the nicest sort of mad scientist. When Lena zaps superpowered 
Much friendlier, but just as prone to drama and mad science.mean girl Belinda Zee with a quack-like-a-duck ray out of pity for Kara, they're immediately fast friends. She's funny, brilliant and ragingly loyal. The fact that Lena is slightly paranoid, prone to fits of inappropriate mad science, and has a raging hate-on for superheroes due to her family history is not enough to deter Kara from hanging out with her. Be honest, it wouldn't stop you either.
Refreshingly, the wacky adventures of Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade do not appear to come from the Big Book of Girl School Story Cliches. There's no "Oh the school dance, what shall I do?" Instead, they're a fun blend of the average thirteen year old's most pressing concerns (not looking like an idiot in class, the strange politics that are tempermental teenage friendships) with issues more specific to an undercover superpowered alien from an advanced planet (worrying about the computers rising up and rebelling get you laughed out of class, mad scientists tend to be drama queens, pets getting superpowers are a pain in the backside) into actually good stories.
Good stuff for the 8-12 year old in your life or you in that 8-12 year old mood. Aimed at girls, but unless a boy is totally allergic to anything starring girls, suitable for boys too - it couldn't be less Barbie if it tried.
I wasn't kidding about the horse.
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