Bill and Ted’s Supergirl’s Excellent Adventure!
I’m going to preface this review by stating that I usually stick up for Supergirl. Kara is young and doesn’t always make the best decisions but who did at that age? This issue, like many before, starts with Kara using her super-powers to help out a fellow orphan get adopted. While her super-heart is in the right place she is very exposed while accomplishing this rescue. This is the kind of risk that Superman would rightly not approve of.
Linda is then assigned to write an essay on a famous historical figure. She decides to time travel to meet some people she finds interesting so she can choose the best topic for her report. Time travel is supposed to be one of those ‘last resort’ kind of things because of the danger inherent with it. Supergirl could accidentally change the time line and cause, let’s say, World War 2 to have an unfavorable ending. Her first stop is 1885 where she meets Annie Oakley and almost reveals herself as an imposter while standing in for Ms. Oakley at a rodeo.
Her next stop is 1776 where she saves the first American flag from destruction but almost dies herself when she gets too close to Kryptonite. Her final bogus journey through time is to the year 1607 where she saves the lives of both Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas (but is almost hit in the head by a Kryptonite tomahawk) by pretending to be a native American spirit. I’m sure that had no impact on history. I can just see a future issue where we’ll find that Supergirl was actually Moses and she parted the Red Sea with her super-breath.
Don’t forget kids, Betsy Ross probably did not make the first American flag. (link)
Supergirl eventually returns to her own time where she describes her time-traveling adventures to Superman (who mysteriously doesn’t get super-cheesed that she was screwing around through time) and asks him why Kryptonite was present on Earth years before Krypton exploded. Superman comes up with some lame reason involving a nuclear blast and time travel.
Back at the orphanage Linda then is forced to pick Joan of Arc as the subject of her report, thereby making her time-traveling useless. Maybe next time she’ll do her research the non-super way, by copying and pasting a Wikipedia article.
On my patented Supergirl Wink © scale this issue gets:
3 Winks
