I wouldn't think I would enjoy anything that is making a tribute or a tipping of the hat to the romance magazines of the 1930s, but this annual was actually really good. It's nice break from the serious demonic atmosphere of David's setup with excellent art to boot.

I especially liked how Brainy and Supergirl toy with eachother to get what they want. Supergirl needs Brainy's help, her town is going mad with some random chaotic magic messing things up. From cars shrinking, bloodbags being replaced with hummingbirds, patients being x-rayed becoming a living x-ray, all sorts of wild things.

Brainy at first refuses to help because he does not like to mess with magic, but Kara sensing his sttraction to her, lightly seduces him with her charm to get him to help. From his perspective, Brainy refused on purpose to get Supergirl to need him.

We have some nice tension between the other girls from the Legion being angry with Supergirl. How Brain was abandoned as a baby, his mother being a domineering blonde woman, and so he has a freudian obsession with strong blonde women.

The chaotic magic at one point almost kills Supergirl and Brainy by crushing them to death in their own void bubble, needing to tell the truth to break the magic. This was very funny, light-hearted, and again the art was fantastic.

The third part of the annual written by Chuck Dixon was also very good. Not about Supergirl directly but just a couple of teenagers who fall in love because of her. The art on this one really shined too. A pizza delivery boy who daydreams on the job about Supergirl doesn't notice the cute redhead girl who has a thing for him because he is so infatuated with Supergirl on the magazines he read.

Supergirl saves a grain arm from an explosion, the boy runs over to see Supergirl in person. A ton of grain falls on him and none of the firefighters or Supergirl noticed while everything was going on. The red head girl followed him knowing his infatuation would get him in trouble, and luckily she saved him. After being in the hospital the boy learned about what she did and they finally go out on a date.

This was really nice because honestly I miss the simple romance in stories to a degree. So much romance has been set aside or complicated to push the feminist agenda in general media, not only affecting modern day storytelling but also changing American life and culture for the worst due to the less innocent forms of romance that is written in today's film and books. Believe me I know relationships, romance today is not a comic book, not some fairy tale but god damn I wouldn't mind some simplicity mixed in once in a while...

Annual number 2 kicked annual 1's ass big time with all parts being satisfying. more