I have to say that I am enjoying this new direction immensely so far. They have picked up all the character improvements of the year before and run with them, creating a very entertaining book chronicling a young hero. And, most importantly, they have kept a likeable and strong Supergirl in  the book. Gone is all the negativity. Instead we have a smart, powerful, inquisitive hero who wants to help. But she has that little bit of a passionate streak in her, that edge that makes her very reactive when she thinks someone she cares for is endangered. Thanks to the entire creative team! Read Full Review

Emanuela is the artist here, with Ray on inks, Hi-Fi on colours and Rob on the letters with Emanuela and Tomeu on the cover. At times, the art is pretty brutal, especially in the fight scenes, but then it is also quite fun and easy-going in the moments when we are initially with Kon in Italy and he is attending Roma Con with all the cosplayers around. There's a really great juxtaposition at work here, and since the overall tone of the story is upbeat, it filters down into the art as well, and really firms it all up. Read Full Review

Supergirl #38 again shakes things up in a good way. You will question the whereabouts of Superboy up to this point, but he is still put in a good position when Supergirl has to make that choice between the Crucible Academy which she begins to question and someone she knows already, enough to be family to some extent. Read Full Review

This issue wasn't the best from Perkins and Johnson, but it does set up a bunch of cool things I can't wait to see more of.  The Crucible isn't what Kara (or the reader) first thought it was and I can't wait to find out what else they are up too. The best part of this month is the reintroduction of Superboy which is worth the price of  admission alone. Read Full Review

The convention scene as a background, while cute for Superboy to pop up in and find himself a little, was just a clich when the fight breaks out and just cant hold a candle to the only recently released Harley Quinn goes to Comic-con. It gave off a vibe of trying too hard. Read Full Review

I admire the creative team's desire to do something different, but this is merely a different sheen on top of the same stale story. Read Full Review

Having a lot of fun with Supergirl in this story arc. It's like watching a Saturday morning cartoon when we were kids. The art lends itself to that and the action is paced pretty well. Glad that Superboy is back, his own book kinda struggled to its finish line but his character is too good to leave out of the New 52 universe completely. It'll be interesting to see how Kara's doubts about Crucible plays out in future issues as we already know the school has some dubious agendas regarding their students. Not too shabby from a title that had some awkward transitions in between story arcs (yes I'm talking about going from Red Daughter of Krypton to those 2 weird Doomed aftermath issues).

Great issue. Love the writing and artwork, but I feel like the ending was a tad out of character. Oh well. No book is perfect.